The Use of Cognitive Mapping for Information Requirements Analysis

Montazemi, Ali Reza; Conrath, David W.

doi:10.2307/248879

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“…Many studies have used cognitive mapping to look at decision-making as well as to examine people's perceptions of complex social systems (Axelrod, 1976;Bauer, 1975;Bougon et al, 1977;Brown, 1992;Carley and Palmquist, 1992;Cossette and Audet, 1992;Hart, 1977;Klein and Cooper, 1982;Malone, 1975;Montazemi and Conrath, 1986;Nakamura et al, 1982;Rappaport, 1979;Roberts, 1973).…”

Section: History Of Cognitive Mappingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecological models based on people’s knowledge: a multi-step fuzzy cognitive mapping approach

Özesmi

2004

Ecological Modelling

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Many types of ecological or environmental problems would benefit from models based on people's knowledge. To create ecological models with both expert and local people's knowledge, a multi-step fuzzy cognitive mapping approach is proposed. A cognitive map can be made of almost any system or problem. Cognitive maps are qualitative models of a system, consisting of variables and the causal relationships between those variables. We describe how our cognitive mapping research has been used in real environmental management applications. This research includes examining the perceptions of different stakeholders in an environmental conflict, obtaining the perceptions of different stakeholders to facilitate the development of participatory environmental management plans, and determining the wants and desires for resettlement of people displaced by a large scale dam project. Based on our research, which involved six separate studies, we have found that interviewees complete their cognitive maps in 40-90 min on average. These maps contain an average of 23 ± 2 S.D. variables with 37 ± 3 S.D. connections. People generally put more forcing functions into their maps than utility variables. Fuzzy cognitive mapping offers many advantages for ecological modeling including the ability to include abstract and aggregate variables in models, the ability to model relationships which are not known with certainty, the ability to model complex relationships which are full of feedback loops, and the ease and speed of obtaining and combining different knowledge sources and of running different policy options.

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Section: History Of Cognitive Mappingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecological models based on people’s knowledge: a multi-step fuzzy cognitive mapping approach

Özesmi

2004

Ecological Modelling

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“…After the development of individual causal maps, it might be a scientific objective to measure the differences between these maps [24,39]. But, in the related literature, approaches are most favoured that aim for a specific form of an aggregation of individual maps.…”

Section: Development and Participation In Causal Mapping Approachesmentioning

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Performance Management by Causal Mapping: An Application Field of Knowledge Management

Kölbel¹,

Ossadnik²,

Gergeleit³

2017

Knowledge Management Strategies and Applications

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As implied by the performance management (PM) concept, modern corporate management has to focus on cause-and-effect relationships underlying a firm´s financial performance generation. To determine the causes of financially desirable effects, subject-bound experiences and knowledge of employees, called tacit knowledge, should be realised. For this, knowledge management (KM) offers various elicitation techniques to reveal corporate-specific success factors (SFs) of financial performance generation from the corporate experts´implicit knowledge. The identified factors have to be organised within a network of cause-and-effect relationships. In this framework, PM can apply the instrument of mapping to structure the individually revealed knowledge, to aggregate and visualise it for the entire company. For a valid representation of the causal relationships, the subjective bias arising within the mentioned process has to be minimised. In the literature, a variety of mapping methods can be found that differ in their approaches and their level of significance. As such a method, causal mapping will be presented in this paper. For providing intersubjectivity, the decision-making trail and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) as a multi-criteria approach will be debated in the context of mapping as a research field.

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“…The technique of FCM is a natural extension to orthodox cognitive maps, which are typically used within the fields of economics, sociology and political science (Axelrod, 1976), and to a limited extent, within Information Systems (Montazemi and Conrath, 1986). An FCM is a method to graphically represent state variables within a dynamical system through links that signify cause and effect relationships; being augmented with fuzzy or multivalent weights that are quantified via numbers, or words (Kosko, 1990(Kosko, , 1991.…”

Section: Modeling Causality: Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (Fcm)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping knowledge management and organizational learning in support of organizational memory

Irani

Sharif

Love

2009

International Journal of Production Economics

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The normative literature within the field of Knowledge Management has concentrated on techniques and methodologies for allowing knowledge to be codified and made available to individuals and groups within organizations. The literature on Organizational Learning however, has tended to focus on aspects of knowledge that are pertinent at the macro-organizational level (i.e. the overall business). The authors attempt in this paper to address a relative void in the literature, aiming to demonstrate the inter-locking factors within an enterprise information system that relate knowledge management and organizational learning, via a model that highlights key factors within such an inter-relationship. This is achieved by extrapolating data from a manufacturing organization using a case study, with these data then modeled using a cognitive mapping technique (Fuzzy Cognitive

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The Use of Cognitive Mapping for Information Requirements Analysis

Cited by 143 publications

References 19 publications

Ecological models based on people’s knowledge: a multi-step fuzzy cognitive mapping approach

Ecological models based on people’s knowledge: a multi-step fuzzy cognitive mapping approach

Performance Management by Causal Mapping: An Application Field of Knowledge Management

Mapping knowledge management and organizational learning in support of organizational memory

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