Using fuzzy cognitive maps as a decision support system for political decisions: The case of Turkey's integration into the European union

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3746 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 371-381

  Tsadiras, Athanasios K ^a   Kouskouvelis, Ilias ^b  

^a ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; GRAPH THEORY; NEURAL NETWORKS;

DECISION CAPABILITIES; FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; POLITICAL DECISIONS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646526297     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11573036_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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