Fuzzy qualitative modellingNo AbstractCoghill, G. M.COLLOQUIUM DIGEST- IEE
The theory of fuzzy sets and the development of qualitative modelling have had similar motivations: coping with complexity in reasoning about the behaviour of physical systems. The paper presents a synthesis of these techniques, providing a fuzzy qualitative modelling method for performing qualitative sim...
Truly qualitative modelling of qualitative dynamic systems is a delicate issue in a sense that even when one uses a "qualitative modelling tool" one often end up adopting quantitative model approaches in disguise. In this paper, we use rule based fuzzy cognitive maps to obtain and simulate a qu...
Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) modelling is highly suitable for the demands of future studies: it uses a mix of qualitative and quantitative approaches, it enables the inclusion of multiple and diverse sources to overcome the limitations of expert opinions, it considers multivariate interactions that lead...
The fuzzy sets in the rules represent linguistic qualitative terms that approximate the human-like way of information quantization. However, many of the data-driven fuzzy modelling algorithms that have been developed, aim at good numerical approximation and pay little attention to the semantical ...
Based on the principle of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation, this paper suggests that the qualitative assessment of a topographic map be investigateel by means of mathematical models of multiple comprehensive evaluation. It points out that among many factors affecting the quality of topographic maps, the ...
The increasing interest in fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) in Information Systems and marketing raises the need for a tutorial paper that discusses the basic concepts and principles of the method, provide answers to typical questions that editors, reviewers, and authors would have ...
This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Technical Note Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA): Guidelines for research practice in Information Systems and marketing Ilias O. Pappasa , b , *, Arch G. Woodside c a ...
MCDM methods [8] were applied in civil engineering for the first time in the 1990s and in the research by Duckstein et al. [9]. Temiz and Calis [10] used MCDM methods to select an appropriate excavation machine for a construction site. In the study, the authors analyzed qualitative and ...
The construction of a Bayesian network involves qualitative and quantitative steps. The first step is to formulate the node and its network structure, and the second is to calculate the parameters of each node. It is found that policy and socio-economic factors show complex and close links under...