Usually, in real-world engineering problems, there are different types of uncertainties about the studied variables, which can be due to the specific variables under investigation or interaction between them. Fuzzy cognitive maps, which addresses the cause-effect relation between variables, is one of the most common models for better understanding of the problems, especially when the quantitati...

Brain processing of spatial information is a very prolific area of research in neuroscience. Since the discovery of place cells (PCs)[1] researchers have tried to explain how these neurons integrate and process spatial and non-spatial information. Place cells (PCs) are pyramidal neurons located in the hippocampus and parahippocampal region which fire with higher frequency when the animal is in ...

Article history: Received 10 February 2014 Received in revised form 31 October 2014 Accepted 26 December 2014 Available online 5 January 2015

This paper shows how Rule Based Fuzzy Cognitive Maps can be useful to model qualitative socio-economic systems, by discussing and presenting a macroeconomic model that, although developed eight years ago and based on simple qualitative rules, described and predicted the current economic crisis when the policy behavior of the banking system regarding tax-rates was assumed similar to the one that...

Article history: Received 22 May 2014 Received in revised form 3 July 2016 Accepted 11 July 2016 Available online 18 July 2016

The notion of the ‘cognitive map’ has long been central to studies of maps, wayfinding and navigation. In this paper we provide an alternate approach to studying map use which re-situates these activities as shared social and cultural practices. This paper draws on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to study video of two examples of naturally-organised map reading. We explore how journe...

Information Analysts observe the elements of an organization in order to gain information unavailable through interviewing and the investigation of hard data. In the past the process of observation has been intuitive at best. This article describes and develops a systematic methodology for analyzing the internal organizational environment. The approach is based on a framework used in film criti...

This work examines and proposes a new method for web mining inference based on Fuzzy Cognitive Maps. The web mining inference and knowledge extraction consists of two phases. At the first phase the a priori algorithm is used for web mining and a collection of Association rules is inferred. In the second phase, the set of Association Rules is transformed into a Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM). It inve...

The employee-employer relationship is an intricate one. In an industry, the employers expect to achieve performances in quality and production in order to earn profit, on the other side employees need good pay and all possible allowances and best advantages than any other industry. Our main objective of this paper is to analyze the relationship between employee and employer in workplace and dis...