The approaches to the trust study are various and very different each of other. In our view, just a socio-cognitive approach to trust would be able to analyze the sub-components (the basic beliefs) on which the final decision to trust or not is taken. In this paper we show a first implementation and advance of the socio-cognitive model of trust developed in [1, 2] using the so-called Fuzzy Cogn...

A fuzzy cognitive map is a graphical means of representing arbitrarily complex models of interrelations between concepts. The purpose of this paper is to describe a dynamic 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 changes ...

Understanding the benefits provided by restoring overstocked forests is crucial to guiding choice of management actions, policy initiatives, and investments beneficiaries, that is, monetizing ecosystem services. Using stakeholder-based fuzzy cognitive mapping, collected through workshops with natural-resource professionals, we mapped interactions services perceived effects actions on them. In l...

This paper presents a comparison between fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM) and the fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) as two well-known techniques to model causality during the process of assessing readiness of an organisation to implement a change. FCM is well known generally, but has been rarely used in assessing readiness for change. In this paper, we demonstrate several advantages of FCM for ch...

Department of Informatics & Computer Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Lamia, 3 Km Old National Road Lamia-Athens, 35100 Lamia, Greece [email protected] Department of Nuclear Medicine, University General Hospital of Patras, 26500 Patras, Greece, [email protected] Department of Intensive Care Unit, Lamia General Hospital, 35100 Lamia, Greece [email protected];dimitri...

This paper describes using a mobile robot, equipped with some sonar sensors and an odometer, to test navigation through the use of a cognitive map. The robot explores an office environment, computes a cognitive map, which is a network of ASRs [33, 34], and attempts to find its way home. Ten trials were conducted and the robot found its way home each time. From four random positions in two trial...