Risk management is an important area in the field of Software Engineering. In software development industry there are many types of risks which can leads to project failure. From these risks functionality risk is one that needs to be focus for software development industry. Due to this risk many problems can arise. If effects of this risk are not estimated it would pose problems for the success...

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) is a soft computing technique that has been used to model and simulate various and completely different applications from different areas. The FCM modeling approach is symbolic, presenting abstract knowledge and is based on human expert experience and knowledge. This study examines and compares the FCM models as they have been used for various applications.

One simple type of connectionist system, the Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM), produces patterns of dynamical output with three important structural properties and capabilities: symmetry, objective relational levels, and the automatic inference of novel logical categories. Together, these emergent properties also reveal a connectionist system that, when cast in the role of a learning agent, has the po...

Today, organisations that seek a competitive advantage are adopting virtual infrastructures that share and manage computing resources. The trend is toward implementing collaborating applications supported by web services technology. In order to enable secure interoperation between participants of these environments, trust is an important requirement to address. Current solutions to trust betwee...

The challenge addressed by this research project is to create a hybrid cognitive architecture that will possess key features of human higher cognition. Our approach is based on the integration of symbolic and connectionist components at the top representational level. The framework of schemas, which is the base of this architecture, is described in the context of integration with neuromorphic c...

Considering the symbiosis between humans and robots in coming years, robots should be able to infer the implicit human intention for the efficient humanrobot interaction. This paper focuses on the human-robot cooperation problem among the various fields of human-robot interaction. The human intention reading method using fuzzy cognitive map for the efficient human-robot cooperation is proposed ...

Introduction: There is a lack of consensus among researchers about the exact definition of homelessness [1] but in a broader context and in this research, a person is considered homeless who "lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence [2]”. Homelessness in Vancouver is a challenge to the social development of the community. A recent survey of homeless count [3] revealed that Vanc...

The purpose of this paper is to describe an adaptive fuzzy cognitive map based on the random neural network model. The adaptive fuzzy cognitive map changes its fuzzy causal web as causal patterns change and as experts update their causal knowledge. We show how the adaptive random fuzzy cognitive map can reveal implications of models composed of dynamic processes.

Integrating emotional agent into virtual learning environment is a flourishing research topic to assist the pedagogical applications. However, most of existing emotional agents still lack of a straightforward and understandable computational strategy for both educational experts and developers. In this paper, we integrate an emotional agent into a pedagogical project which uses OCC-based rules ...

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is series of best practices that helps Information technology Organizations to provide Information technology (IT) services for their customers with better performances and quality. This a rticle is looking for a way to implement ITIL in an organization and also using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM) to model the problem for better understanding of...