The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the use of evidential reasoning approach under Dempster-Shafer (D-S) theory of belief functions to analyze revealed causal maps. Revealed causal mapping (RCM) technique, as applied in this chapter, is a qualitative method used to develop or extend understanding of a phenomenon within a specific context. The map can be used to develop models, either ...

Scientists and managers are not the only holders of knowledge regarding environmental issues: other stakeholders such as farmers or fishers do have empirical and relevant knowledge. Thus, new approaches for knowledge representation in the case of multiple knowledge sources, but still enabling reasoning, are needed. Cognitive maps and Bayesian networks constitute some useful formalisms to addres...

We investigate whether people rely on their causal intuitions to determine the predictive value or importance of cues. Our real-world data set consists of one criterion variable (child mortality) and nine cues (e.g., GDP per capita). We elicited people’s intuitive causal models about the domain. In a second task, we asked them to rank the cues according to their beliefs about the cues’ predicti...

Sense making is at the heart of cognitively complex and data intensive decision making processes. It is often conducted in collective spaces through exchange of ideas, discussions, analysing situations, and exploring alternatives. This position paper proposes a novel approach to facilitate collective sense making via a collaboration platform which (a) offers multiple views to collaboration (inc...

We study the collective behavior in a random network of coupled Chaté Manneville (CM) maps where the relevant variables are the connectivity k, coupling ε, and the governing parameter of map r. We show that for some interval of their values at least a considerable fraction of network sites display a spatio-temporal intermittency. Within the intermittency window, the system exhibits a complex co...

Purpose: The aim of the current research was to Predict Collective leadership of governor’s employers through organizational trust & professional ethic. Method: The method of this study was a descriptive and correlational study. Statistical society included all employees of Sistan and Baluchistan Governor who were 140 people. All the society members were considered as the sample of the st...

Recent experimental work on “natural” kind terms has shown evidence of both descriptive and nondescriptive reference determination. This led some to propose ambiguity or hybrid theories, as opposed traditional description causal-historical theories reference. Many those experiments tested against referential intuitions. We reject this method, urging that should be usage, preferably by elicited ...

The main contribution of this PhD thesis is: A proposal for Student Modeling based upon Cognitive Maps. Its purpose is to anticipate the effects that a teaching-learning experience will produce on a student before its delivery. Thus, this dissertation focuses on the Student Modeling from the causal-effect perspective. Also, our approach aims to predict outcomes stemmed from teaching-learning se...

We obtain the rotational spectrum of strange multibaryon states by performing the SU(3) collective coordinate quantization of the static multi-Skyrmions. These background configurations are given in terms of rational maps, which are very good approximations and share the same symmetries as the exact solutions. Thus, the allowed quantum numbers in the spectra and the structure of the collective ...