Generating consistent subjective estimates of the magnitudes of causal relationships in fuzzy cognitive maps

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1165-1175

  Osei Bryson, Kweku Muata ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate reasoning; Cognitive maps; Consistency; Fuzzy systems; Pairwise comparisons

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPS (FCM);

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

COGNITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FUZZY MATHEMATICS;

EID: 1642342939     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(03)00070-4     Document Type: Article

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