Using fuzzy cognitive maps as a decision support system for political decisions

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

Volumn 2563, Issue , 2003, Pages 172-182

  Tsadiras, Athanasios K ^a   Kouskouvelis, Ilias ^a   Margaritis, Konstantinos G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; CAUSAL RELATIONS; DECISION CAPABILITY; DECISION PROCESS; FUZZY COGNITIVE MAP; FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPS (FCMS); POLITICAL DECISION; REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 34548112963     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-38076-0_12     Document Type: Article

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