Interrogating the structure of fuzzy cognitive maps

Soft Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 148-153

  Liu, Z Q ^a,b   Zhang, J Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Causal knowledge; Decision making systems; Dynamic causal algebra; Fuzzy cognitive maps; Inference

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL KNOWLEDGE; CYCLIC PATTERNS; DECISION-MAKING SYSTEMS; FUZZY COGNITIVE MAP; FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPS (FCMS); INFERENCE; INITIAL CONDITIONS; RESEARCH TOPICS;

FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SYSTEMS;

ALGEBRA;

EID: 0142173055     PISSN: 14327643     EISSN: 14337479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-002-0202-x     Document Type: Article

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