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Developments in Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Their Applications to Enterprise Resource Planning Readiness Assessment

Author : Sadra Ahmadi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Developments in Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Their Applications to Enterprise Resource Planning Readiness Assessment written by Sadra Ahmadi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) have been widely used for modelling and analysing causal relationships and feedback between components of a complex system. This research develops two efficient and effective algorithms for learning FCMs. This research also develops a structured FCM-based methodology for assessing, managing and planning change readiness for implementing a complex information system involving many interrelated readiness-relevant factors.Modelling and analysing a system using the FCM technique can be done by using either experts' knowledge or historical data about the system. This research has two main objectives: (1) developing new, accurate and fast algorithms for analysing historical data to develop FCM models, and (2) developing a FCM-based methodology using experts' knowledge for analysing and managing the readiness of an organisation for implementing a complex information system.To achieve the first objective, this research investigates whether the new forms of evolutionary algorithms provide a faster and more accurate algorithm for automated FCM learning using historical data. Two new types of fast and accurate FCM learning algorithms are developed by using two evolutionary optimisation algorithms called the Cultural Algorithm (CA) and the Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA). The two new FCM learning algorithms resulted from using these two algorithms are the Cultural Learning Algorithm (CLA) and the Imperialist Competitive Learning Algorithm (ICLA) respectively. Comparing these two new FCM learning algorithms with many existing and well-known learning algorithms, such as Real Coded Genetic Algorithm (RCGA) and divide and conquer RCGA, shows that in most cases they outperform existing algorithms in terms of accuracy and speed. The experimental comparison between CLA and ICLA also shows that the accuracy of CLA is slightly better than ICLA, whereas ICLA is more efficient than the CLA.To achieve the second objective, this research addresses two issues: (1) how causal relationships between interrelated readiness-relevant factors or activities can be modelled for assessing an organisation's readiness for a major change, and (2) how an organisation can develop the most cost effective plan for improving the readiness. This research addresses these two issues in the context of a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation.To address the first issue, a structured FCM-based methodology for managing interrelated readiness-relevant factors or activities to implement a significant change is developed. The methodology can (1) identify the readiness-relevant factors, (2) determine how these factors influence each other, (3) assess how these factors contribute to the overall readiness, (4) cluster the factors into manageable groups and (5) prioritise the factors according to their causal interrelationships to find the most influential factors for allocating readiness improvement management effort. In addition, based on the contribution of the factors on the overall readiness and their interrelationships, the factors can be categorised into four management zones for effective allocation of limited management efforts.To address the second issue, an FCM-based problem solving methodology is developed to find the most cost effective plan for improving the readiness. This methodology finds the best readiness improvement plan as a multi objective trade-off between the two objectives of readiness maximisation and cost minimisation using the Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II evolutionary algorithm. The result of solving this problem is a set of optimal improvement plans from which the best plan for meeting an organisation's specific needs can be determined.This research has made significant methodological and practical contributions to both FCM and ERP research. As a methodological contribution to FCM research, this research develops two new, effective, and efficient automated FCM learning algorithms. As a methodological contribution to ERP research, this research develops a structured readiness management methodology with methodological advances including (1) modelling causal relationships between interrelated ERP readiness-relevant factors or activities, (2) reflecting the imprecise nature of the readiness assessment process, (3) prioritising readiness-relevant factors based on their causal relationships with other factors, (4) reducing the complexity of the readiness assessment model by clustering factors into manageable groups, and (5) analysing the readiness assessment model to find the most cost effective areas and factors for improving the overall readiness.As practical contribution to ERP research, this research shows how the new structured readiness management methodology can help an organisation (1) identify the main areas required for management focus and (2) analyse the readiness-relevant factors to determine the individual factors which should be improved for achieving the highest readiness improvement. These are significant contributions to the practice of ERP implementation. The methodology developed and the outcomes produced in this research are valuable for an organisation to effectively manage its readiness relevant factors or activities during the pre-implementation stage of an ERP system.

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

Author : Michael Glykas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642032192
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Fuzzy Cognitive Maps written by Michael Glykas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important edited volume is the first such book ever published on fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs). Professor Michael Glykas has done an exceptional job in bringing together and editing its seventeen chapters. The volume appears nearly a quarter century after my original article “Fuzzy Cognitive Maps” appeared in the International Journal of Man-Machine Studies in 1986. The volume accordingly reflects many years of research effort in the development of FCM theory and applications—and portends many more decades of FCM research and applications to come. FCMs are fuzzy feedback models of causality. They combine aspects of fuzzy logic, neural networks, semantic networks, expert systems, and nonlinear dynamical systems. That rich structure endows FCMs with their own complexity and lets them apply to a wide range of problems in engineering and in the soft and hard sciences. Their partial edge connections allow a user to directly represent causality as a matter of degree and to learn new edge strengths from training data. Their directed graph structure allows forward or what-if inferencing. FCM cycles or feedback paths allow for complex nonlinear dynamics. Control of FCM nonlinear dynamics can in many cases let the user encode and decode concept patterns as fixed-point attractors or limit cycles or perhaps as more exotic dynamical equilibria. These global equilibrium patterns are often “hidden” in the nonlinear dynamics. The user will not likely see these global patterns by simply inspecting the local causal edges or nodes of large FCMs.

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

Author : László T. Kóczy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031379594
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Fuzzy Cognitive Maps written by László T. Kóczy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-21 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is considered as a monograph but also as a potential textbook for graduate students, focusing on the application of FCMs for modelling and analysing the behaviour of multicomponent systems. In the last two decades, no monograph or textbook has been published on the topic Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM), so this new book is definitely filling a gap in the literature of computational intelligence. The book is built up didactically, the novel results in the field being presented in the way of starting with two real-life case studies, one in the area of waste management, while the other one in modelling bank management systems. In both cases, the book starts with explaining the applied problem and then presenting how the model construction is done and what problems emerge when attempts are made for applying directly earlier results on FCM modelling. In the first case study, the problem of the oversimplification leads to inadequacy of the model, and then it is shown how new, much finer models can be built up based on expert domain knowledge. Then, the new problem of losing transparency and interpretability emerges, and as a solution, a new algorithm family is proposed that reduces FCMs to fewer components, while preserving the essential characteristics of the original model. The second case study raises the problems of stability and sensitivity of FCMs, especially, considering that expert knowledge is often uncertain and subjective. The new results summarised in the book target the questions of how to ascertain whether an FCM is converging to one or several fixed point attractors, whether there is a bifurcation when parameters are changing, etc. Both problems deal with the ultimate question whether the system modelled is stable and sustainable.

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

Author : Michael Glykas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783642032196
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Fuzzy Cognitive Maps written by Michael Glykas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important edited volume is the first such book ever published on fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs). Professor Michael Glykas has done an exceptional job in bringing together and editing its seventeen chapters. The volume appears nearly a quarter century after my original article “Fuzzy Cognitive Maps” appeared in the International Journal of Man-Machine Studies in 1986. The volume accordingly reflects many years of research effort in the development of FCM theory and applications—and portends many more decades of FCM research and applications to come. FCMs are fuzzy feedback models of causality. They combine aspects of fuzzy logic, neural networks, semantic networks, expert systems, and nonlinear dynamical systems. That rich structure endows FCMs with their own complexity and lets them apply to a wide range of problems in engineering and in the soft and hard sciences. Their partial edge connections allow a user to directly represent causality as a matter of degree and to learn new edge strengths from training data. Their directed graph structure allows forward or what-if inferencing. FCM cycles or feedback paths allow for complex nonlinear dynamics. Control of FCM nonlinear dynamics can in many cases let the user encode and decode concept patterns as fixed-point attractors or limit cycles or perhaps as more exotic dynamical equilibria. These global equilibrium patterns are often “hidden” in the nonlinear dynamics. The user will not likely see these global patterns by simply inspecting the local causal edges or nodes of large FCMs.

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

Author : W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy
Publisher : Infinite Study
ISBN 13 : 1931233764
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps written by W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of chaotic alignments, traditional logic with its strict boundaries of truth and falsity has not imbued itself with the capability of reflecting the reality. Despite various attempts to reorient logic, there has remained an essential need for an alternative system that could infuse into itself a representation of the real world. Out of this need arose the system of Neutrosophy (the philosophy of neutralities, introduced by FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE), and its connected logic Neutrosophic Logic, which is a further generalization of the theory of Fuzzy Logic. In this book we study the concepts of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) and their Neutrosophic analogue, the Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps (NCMs). Fuzzy Cognitive Maps are fuzzy structures that strongly resemble neural networks, and they have powerful and far-reaching consequences as a mathematical tool for modeling complex systems. Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps are generalizations of FCMs, and their unique feature is the ability to handle indeterminacy in relations between two concepts thereby bringing greater sensitivity into the results. Some of the varied applications of FCMs and NCMs which has been explained by us, in this book, include: modeling of supervisory systems; design of hybrid models for complex systems; mobile robots and in intimate technology such as office plants; analysis of business performance assessment; formalism debate and legal rules; creating metabolic and regulatory network models; traffic and transportation problems; medical diagnostics; simulation of strategic planning process in intelligent systems; specific language impairment; web-mining inference application; child labor problem; industrial relations: between employer and employee, maximizing production and profit; decision support in intelligent intrusion detection system; hyper-knowledge representation in strategy formation; female infanticide; depression in terminally ill patients and finally, in the theory of community mobilization and women empowerment relative to the AIDS epidemic.

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

Author : Janusz Kacprzyk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783642032219
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Fuzzy Cognitive Maps written by Janusz Kacprzyk and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

Author : W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy
Publisher : Infinite Study
ISBN 13 : 1931233764
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (312 download)

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Strategic Portfolio Management

Author : Katy Angliss
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000826635
Total Pages : 524 pages
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Download or read book Strategic Portfolio Management written by Katy Angliss and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a powerful insight into strategic portfolio management and its central role in the delivery of organisational strategy, maximisation of value creation, and efficient allocation of resources and capabilities to achieve organisational strategic objectives. The book makes a valuable contribution to the development of thinking on the translation of strategy into actionable work. Whether you are a senior manager building a high-performing strategic portfolio for your organisation or an academic searching for new perspectives on strategy execution through portfolio management, you will find great significance in this book. Twenty-eight chapters in four sections provide multiple perspectives on the topic, with in-depth guidance on organisational design for strategic portfolio management and covering all process, capability, and leadership aspects of strategic portfolio management. The book includes several detailed case studies for the effective deployment of strategic portfolios, bringing together theory and practice for strategic portfolio management. This book is particularly valuable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of project and portfolio management, strategic management, and leadership who are looking to expand their knowledge within the multi-project environment. Highly practical and logical in its structure, it also shows project management professionals how to effectively manage their business portfolios and align this with their business strategy.

13th International Conference on Theory and Application of Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing — ICAFS-2018

Author : Rafik A. Aliev
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030041646
Total Pages : 970 pages
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Download or read book 13th International Conference on Theory and Application of Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing — ICAFS-2018 written by Rafik A. Aliev and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Application of Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing (ICAFS 2018), held in Warsaw, Poland on August 27–28, 2018. It includes contributions from diverse areas of soft computing such as uncertain computation, Z-information processing, neuro-fuzzy approaches, evolutionary computing and others. The topics of the papers include theory of uncertainty computation; theory and application of soft computing; decision theory with imperfect information; neuro-fuzzy technology; image processing with soft computing; intelligent control; machine learning; fuzzy logic in data analytics and data mining; evolutionary computing; chaotic systems; soft computing in business, economics and finance; fuzzy logic and soft computing in the earth sciences; fuzzy logic and soft computing in engineering; soft computing in medicine, biomedical engineering and the pharmaceutical sciences; and probabilistic and statistical reasoning in the social and educational sciences. The book covers new ideas from theoretical and practical perspectives in economics, business, industry, education, medicine, the earth sciences and other fields. In addition to promoting the development and application of soft computing methods in various real-life fields, it offers a useful guide for academics, practitioners, and graduates in fuzzy logic and soft computing fields.

Green, Closed Loop, Circular Bio-Economy

Author : Charisios Achillas
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3036502106
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (365 download)

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Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

Author : Daniel E. O'Leary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521791526
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Enterprise Resource Planning Systems written by Daniel E. O'Leary and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-31 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the pros and cons of ERP systems and their role in e-commerce.

MITRE Systems Engineering Guide

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ISBN 13 : 9780615974422
Total Pages : pages
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Logistics 4.0

Author : Turan Paksoy
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000245101
Total Pages : 369 pages
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Download or read book Logistics 4.0 written by Turan Paksoy and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial revolutions have impacted both, manufacturing and service. From the steam engine to digital automated production, the industrial revolutions have conduced significant changes in operations and supply chain management (SCM) processes. Swift changes in manufacturing and service systems have led to phenomenal improvements in productivity. The fast-paced environment brings new challenges and opportunities for the companies that are associated with the adaptation to the new concepts such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber Physical Systems, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, cyber security, data analytics, block chain and cloud technology. These emerging technologies facilitated and expedited the birth of Logistics 4.0. Industrial Revolution 4.0 initiatives in SCM has attracted stakeholders’ attentions due to it is ability to empower using a set of technologies together that helps to execute more efficient production and distribution systems. This initiative has been called Logistics 4.0 of the fourth Industrial Revolution in SCM due to its high potential. Connecting entities, machines, physical items and enterprise resources to each other by using sensors, devices and the internet along the supply chains are the main attributes of Logistics 4.0. IoT enables customers to make more suitable and valuable decisions due to the data-driven structure of the Industry 4.0 paradigm. Besides that, the system’s ability of gathering and analyzing information about the environment at any given time and adapting itself to the rapid changes add significant value to the SCM processes. In this peer-reviewed book, experts from all over the world, in the field present a conceptual framework for Logistics 4.0 and provide examples for usage of Industry 4.0 tools in SCM. This book is a work that will be beneficial for both practitioners and students and academicians, as it covers the theoretical framework, on the one hand, and includes examples of practice and real world.

Security Incidents & Response Against Cyber Attacks

Author : Akashdeep Bhardwaj
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030691748
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Security Incidents & Response Against Cyber Attacks written by Akashdeep Bhardwaj and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides use case scenarios of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and real-time domains to supplement cyber security operations and proactively predict attacks and preempt cyber incidents. The authors discuss cybersecurity incident planning, starting from a draft response plan, to assigning responsibilities, to use of external experts, to equipping organization teams to address incidents, to preparing communication strategy and cyber insurance. They also discuss classifications and methods to detect cybersecurity incidents, how to organize the incident response team, how to conduct situational awareness, how to contain and eradicate incidents, and how to cleanup and recover. The book shares real-world experiences and knowledge from authors from academia and industry.

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology

Author : Mehdi Khosrow-Pour
Publisher : IGI Global Snippet
ISBN 13 : 9781605660264
Total Pages : 4292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology written by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour and published by IGI Global Snippet. This book was released on 2009 with total page 4292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This set of books represents a detailed compendium of authoritative, research-based entries that define the contemporary state of knowledge on technology"--Provided by publisher.

The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map

Author : John O'Keefe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
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Impact Evaluation in Practice, Second Edition

Author : Paul J. Gertler
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464807809
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Impact Evaluation in Practice, Second Edition written by Paul J. Gertler and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the Impact Evaluation in Practice handbook is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to impact evaluation for policy makers and development practitioners. First published in 2011, it has been used widely across the development and academic communities. The book incorporates real-world examples to present practical guidelines for designing and implementing impact evaluations. Readers will gain an understanding of impact evaluations and the best ways to use them to design evidence-based policies and programs. The updated version covers the newest techniques for evaluating programs and includes state-of-the-art implementation advice, as well as an expanded set of examples and case studies that draw on recent development challenges. It also includes new material on research ethics and partnerships to conduct impact evaluation. The handbook is divided into four sections: Part One discusses what to evaluate and why; Part Two presents the main impact evaluation methods; Part Three addresses how to manage impact evaluations; Part Four reviews impact evaluation sampling and data collection. Case studies illustrate different applications of impact evaluations. The book links to complementary instructional material available online, including an applied case as well as questions and answers. The updated second edition will be a valuable resource for the international development community, universities, and policy makers looking to build better evidence around what works in development.