This paper is concerned with proposing the fuzzy cognitive map (FCM)-driven inference ampli®cation mechanism in the ®eld of web-mining. As the recent advent of the Internet, most of the modern ®rms are now geared towards using the web technology in their daily as well as strategic activities. The web-mining technology provides them with unprecedented ability to analyze web-log data, which are s...

Customer satisfaction is one of the key factors in modern marketing and customers’ behavior analysis. Banking industry is one of the numerous services in which the customer satisfaction has had an ever increasing importance in the corresponding research areas. The problem here is the complexity of dealing with customer satisfaction due to superabundant factors engaged in it. In this paper the a...

In this paper we propose an extension to the Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) that aims at aggregating a number of reasoning tasks into a one parallel run. The described approach consists in replacing real-valued activation levels of concepts (and further influence weights) by random variables. Such extension, followed by the implemented software tool, allows for determining ranges reached by concep...

In this study, we address the problem of medical diagnosis by applying Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM). A distinctive feature of the FCM is its ability to simulate the development of the disease in time. By this simulation, it is possible to predict the severity of the disease by having future knowledge on current medical investigations. For the first time in this paper, we construct an FCM-based cla...

In this paper, we present an adaptive control framework, which study combines control theory with fuzzy cognitive map theory. The proposed framework utilizes the feature and the inference mechanism of FCM. The causal relationship of variables is constructed by online learning, the values of control variables are given by the inference of FCM model, and the control variables are used to adjust t...

Suicide has become a significantly prominent issue because high frequencies of occurrences make it one of the top three causes of death for young people in the United States. To prevent suicide attempts, it is important to identify suicidal tendencies in the behavior, speech, or writing of an individual as early as possible. This paper demonstrates one technique of analyzing written material to...

The emerging research interest on neural oscillation in neuroscience has resulted in an ever-increasing number of studies on various cognitive and neuro-developmental phenomena. There is, now, evidence linking brain physiological descriptions with certain phenotypes in normal and atypical behavior, involving neural oscillation. Case studies include brain disorders, such as autism and schizophre...

In this paper the authors propose a methodology for assessing the mental models individuals with cognitive disabilities use to perform simple to complex tasks. Fuzzy cognitive maps are sued as the modeling technique for capturing the attributes and the relationships that such individuals use in framing a problem, strategizing about alternate ways to solve it and implementing the solution chosen...

This paper discusses a framework to assist test managers to evaluate the use of AI techniques as a potential tool in software testing. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) are employed to evaluate the framework and make decision analysis easier. A what-if analysis is presented that explores the general application of the framework. Simulations are performed to show the effectiveness of the proposed meth...

One of the high energy consuming devices in the buildings is the air-conditioning system. Designing a proper controller to consider the thermal comfort and simultaneously control the energy usage of the device will impact on the system energy efficiency and its performance. The aim of this study was to design a Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO), non-linear, and intelligent controller on...