Cognitive mapping are mental pictures of the attributes of our surroundings. Cognitive maps provide us with a model or guide of our surroundings that we can utilize. When we make Cognitive maps, we regularly prevent data that is not significant or unrelated. This implies that our Cognitive maps can vary from the real environment that we are mapping. cognitive maps make it simpler for us to revi...

The necessity to use various tools – instructional media and technology for effective teaching using combined overlap block fuzzy cognitive maps (COBFCMS) defined by W.B. Vasantha Kandaswamy is analyzed in this paper. The combined overlap block FCM’s defined in this method become effective when the number of concepts can be grouped and are large in numbrs. In this paper we have analyzed the var...

Using soft computing methods, the authors collect and process relevant user-generated information from the web. Through the use of self-organizing maps, fuzzy cognitive maps are constructed. The fuzzy cognitive map is a generated representation of the emergent web semantics of the dataset. In the next step, the fuzzy cognitive maps are enriched with related lexical content and stored in a graph...

A fuzzy cognitive map is a graphical means of representing arbitrary complex models of interrelations between concepts. The purpose of this paper is to describe a dynamic/adaptive fuzzy cognitive map based on the random neural network model. Previously, we have developed a random fuzzy cognitive map and illustrated its application in the modeling of processes. The adaptive fuzzy cognitive map c...

It is commonly recognized that free-hand sketch maps are influenced by cognitive impacts and therefore sketch maps are incomplete, distorted, and schematized. This makes it difficult to achieve a one-to-one alignment between a sketch map and its corresponding geo-referencedmetric map. Nevertheless, sketch maps are still useful to communicate spatial knowledge, indicating that sketch maps contai...

the concept of coordination in supply chain management is different from the viewpoint of the roles of this chain and this difference causes more uncoordination at the entire of the supply chain. hence, regarding to the importance of this subject at the performance of supply chain, the clarification of the coordination concept as a casual model seems very necessary. in this research, the cognit...

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.

Swarms of social insects construct trails and networks of regular tra c via a process of pheromone laying and following These patterns constitute what is known in brain science as a cognitive map The main di erence lies in the fact that the insects write their spatial memories in the environment while the mammalian cognitive map lies inside the brain This analogy can be more than a poetic image...

Patients with imagery neglect (RI+) show peculiar difficulties in orienting themselves in the environment. Navigational impairments could be due to a deficit in creating or using a mental representation of the environment (Guariglia, Piccardi, Iaria, Nico, & Pizzamiglio, 2005) or, according to the BBB model (Burgess, Becker, King, & O'Keefe, 2001), to a specific deficit in a mechanism that tran...

Complex systems with nonlinearities and surrounding uncertainty are usually modeled sufficiently by Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs). FCMs work efficiently even with missing data. Experts, for each case study, support with their knowledge the developed FCMs. Nevertheless, the main drawback of FCMs is their convergence to the same equilibrium point regardless of the initial conditions. In this paper ...