“…As a technique of soft computing, FCM establishes a computable model for casual relationships through synthesizing multi-expert knowledge and systematic analysis (Axelrod, 1976). Originated from the combination of fuzzy logic and neural networks, FCM is used because of the cause and effect relationships between pair of factors, presence of conflicting criteria and lack of crisp data (Goker and Dursun, 2019). Because of its scientificity and practicability, more and more researchers have paid much attention to FCM and applied it to various areas such as decision-making (Lee et al , 2012; Azadeh et al , 2015), marketing planning (Lee et al , 2013,), energy investment optimization (Çoban and Onar, 2017), project appraisal (Bağdatlı et al , 2017), performance evaluation (Rezaee et al , 2016), risk management (Bevilacqua et al , 2018), etc.…”