Prediction of socio-economical consequences of privatization at the firm level with fuzzy cognitive mapping

A Cognitive Mapping Approach to Organizing the Participation of Multiple Actors in a Problem Structuring Process

“…This technique has widely been used and studied in various contexts as part of problem structuring methods (see Eden (2004); Eden and Ackermann (2004); Sahin et al (2004); Coban and Secme (2005); Tegarden and Sheetz (2003); Kwahk and Kim (1999);Borroi et al (1998); Carlsson and Walden (1997); Swan (1997); Verstraete (1996); Lee et al (1992); Bougon and Komocar (1990), for example). Fiol and Huff (1992) indicated that a cognitive map could be represented in different forms.…”

“…However, other studies bypass these collective and integrative phases, as it is the case with methodologies using aggregation or comparison tools to examine individual cognitive maps. Ozesmi and Ozesmi (2004) and Coban and Secme (2005) have proposed methodologies with aggregation tools, while Markoczy and Goldberg (1995) have proposed one with a comparison tool. Although these methodologies do save a lot of time, the role of the facilitator is proportionally quite important.…”

A novel semi-quantitative Fuzzy Cognitive Map model for complex systems for addressing challenging participatory real life problems

“…Due to the flexibility and ability of FCM to represent human knowledge, FCM has been used for modelling numerous different ill-structured domains such as: political decisions and developments [53,56], socio-ecological systems [14,17,21,26,42,43,54], socio-economical systems [10], agriculture [27,44], medical decision-making [1,23,52], catastrophic natural events, e.g., earthquakes [50,51], and water and drought management [17][18][19].…”

The potential of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for semi-quantitative scenario development, with an example from Brazil

“…A few key research themes are emerging, namely combining multiple Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (e.g. Koulouriotis et al, 2003); developing indices for analysing and comparing Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (Çoban and Seçme, 2005); and analysing the dynamic output of a Fuzzy Cognitive Map (Stach et al, 2005). Despite the diversity of applications, the aspect of analysing the dynamic behaviour the Fuzzy Cognitive Map is surprisingly underexposed.…”