Overview
- Covers a breadth of topics of cognitive maps ranging from a systematic analysis, design, and applications
- Offers a systematic and coherent exposure of the material
- Underlines interesting innovative research insights and positions the studies in the framework of timely applications
Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing (STUDFUZZ, volume 427)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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About this book
This book is considered as a monograph but also as a potential textbook for graduate students, focusing on the application of FCMs for modelling and analysing the behaviour of multicomponent systems. In the last two decades, no monograph or textbook has been published on the topic Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM), so this new book is definitely filling a gap in the literature of computational intelligence.
The book is built up didactically, the novel results in the field being presented in the way of starting with two real-life case studies, one in the area of waste management, while the other one in modelling bank management systems. In both cases, the book starts with explaining the applied problem and then presenting how the model construction is done and what problems emerge when attempts are made for applying directly earlier results on FCM modelling. In the first case study, the problem of the oversimplification leads to inadequacy of the model, and then it is shown how new,much finer models can be built up based on expert domain knowledge. Then, the new problem of losing transparency and interpretability emerges, and as a solution, a new algorithm family is proposed that reduces FCMs to fewer components, while preserving the essential characteristics of the original model.
The second case study raises the problems of stability and sensitivity of FCMs, especially, considering that expert knowledge is often uncertain and subjective. The new results summarised in the book target the questions of how to ascertain whether an FCM is converging to one or several fixed point attractors, whether there is a bifurcation when parameters are changing, etc.
Both problems deal with the ultimate question whether the system modelled is stable and sustainable.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
Book Subtitle: A Tool for the Modeling and Simulation of Processes and Systems
Authors: László T. Kóczy
Series Title: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37959-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and Robotics, Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37958-1Published: 16 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37961-1Due: 16 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37959-8Published: 15 December 2023
Series ISSN: 1434-9922
Series E-ISSN: 1860-0808
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 133
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour