The Imperative reasons for miracles through Holy Bible using Induced fuzzy cognitive maps (IFCMs) defined by T. Pathinathan is analyzed in this paper. The analysis confirmed that many miracles require “cooperation” between God and people to occur. In other words, it appears that in many cases, God uses a reciprocal relationship between Himself and the people, while operating miracles. Basically...

This paper focuses on the Rule Based Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (RB-FCM) potential to model the dynamics of qualitative real-world systems that include feedback links. It presents a general overview of RB-FCM and proposes a set of possible concepts and relations. It also provides guidelines to introduce time as an important qualitative entity in cognitive maps.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are very costly and difficult to be implemented. Organizations need to be ready for implementing them. They require assessing their current readiness and then, they can perform a range of activities to improve their readiness. The ERP readiness is influenced by many factors which are interrelated and any improvement in one of them has direct and indire...

Recently, Fuzzy Grey Cognitive Map (FGCM) has been proposed as a FCM extension. It is based on Grey System Theory, that it is focused on solving problems with high uncertainty, under discrete incomplete and small data sets. The FGCM nodes are variables, representing grey concepts. The relationships between nodes are represented by directed edges. An edge linking two nodes models the grey causal...

A comprehensive survey of qualitative representations in cognitive maps is provided in this paper from spatial cognition perspective. The necessity of qualitative representation for robot navigation and map building is discussed with emphasis on different forms of qualitative information represented in different cognitive maps. By discussing the main spatial representations, which are topologic...

Cognitive maps are widely used for representing decision makers' mental maps and their strategies. However, the cognitive map analysis is usually constrained into the static analyis and has difficulty in exploring dynamic nature of decision makers' mental map. In this paper, a simulation method of cognitve map in the discipline of system dynamics is developed and discussed. In this paper, the c...

Modeling of large systems requires high level of expertise to properly identify and represent complex interrelationships between various elements. In addition to creation of a network of system’s elements and their relationships, very important contribution to understanding of its behavior we can get from human experts. Naturally, humans express their experience and beliefs descriptively, empha...

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) have found many applications in social -financial -political problems. In this paper we propose a method of FCM operation, which can be used to represent and control any real system, including traditional electro-mechanical systems. In the proposed approach the FCM reaches its equilibrium point using direct feedback from the node values of the real system and the lim...

This study is the second step of a long-term research project, which investigates the innovative uses of a software application by adolescents in an all girls’ high school in the southern United States. In the first phase, we proposed a research model that can be used to predict innovative use following mandatory adoption by conducting surveys and quantitative analysis of the results (Singletar...