• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.461-467
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• 1998

Although many methods of knowledge acquisition has been developed in the expert systems field, such a need for causal knowledge acquisition has not been stressed relatively. In this respect, this paper is aimed at suggesting a causal knowledge acquisition process, and then investigate the causal knowledge-based inference process. A vehicle for causal knowledge acquisition is FCM (Fuzzy Cognitive Map), a fuzzy signed digraph with causal relationships between concept variables found in a specific application domain. Although FCM has a plenty of generic properties for causal knowledge acquisition, it needs some theoretical improvement for acquiring a more refined causal knowledge. In this sense, we refine fuzzy implications of FCM by proposing fuzzy implications of FCM by proposing fuzzy causal relationship and fuzzy partially causal relationship. To test the validity of our proposed approcach, we prototyped a causal knowledge-driven inference engine named CAKES and then experime ted with some illustrative examples.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.203-212
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 FCM을 이용하여 의사결정의 질을 높일 수 있는 추론방법을 제시한다. 이를 위하여 FCM의 추론의 질을 저하시키는 문제중의 하나인 동기화 문제(synchronizatinon Problem)를 설명하고. 이를 해결하기 위한 방안으로서 FCM 계층화(levelization) 알고리즘을 제시한다. 본 논문에서 제안된 계층화된 FCM을 이용한 추론절차를 제시하고, 그 활용예를 설명한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.53-68
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• 1998

FCM은 비구조적인 (unstructured) 문제영역에서 주어진 문제에 대한 효과적인 추론시 적용될 수 있는 매우 유용한 추론도구이다. 그러나, FCM에 사이클이 존재하면 추론효과가 크게 감소한다. 본 노문에서는 사이클이 있는 FCM을 이용한 의사결정의 질을 높일 수 있는 추론방법을 제시한다. 아울러 사이클이 제거된 FCM의 추론이 질을 저하시키는 문제중의 하나인 동기화 문제 (synchronization problem)를 설명하고, 이를 해결하기 위한 방안으로서 FCM 계층화 (levelization) 알고리즘을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.247-251
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• 1997

FCM(Fuzzy Cognitive Map) is a fuzzy signed directed graph for representing causal reasoning which has fuzziness between causal concepts. Authors have already proposed FCM-based fault diagnostic scheme and verified its usefulness. However, the previously proposed scheme has the problem of lower diagnostic resolution as in the case of other qualitative approaches. In order to improve the diagnostic resolution, a concept of fuzzy number is introduced into the basic FCM-based fault diagnostic algorithm. By incorporation the fuzzy number into fault FCM models, quantitative information such as the transfer gain between the state variables can be effectively utilized for better diagnostic resolution. Furthermore, an enhanced TAM(Temporal Associative Memory) recall procedure and modified and modified pattern matching scheme are also proposed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.291-292
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• 2009

모바일 장치에서 얻을 수 있는 정보는 의미 있는 다양한 개인 정보를 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 모바일 장치에서 얻을 수 있는 정보를 분석하여 특이성을 추론하는 방법을 제안한다. 특이성 추론 방법으로 인과관계의 지식을 모델링하고 표현하며 추론하는 주요 형식화 방법의 하나인 FCM(Fuzzy Cognitive Map)을 사용하였다. 제안된 방법은 모바일 장치에서 얻은 정보와 추론된 특이성을 개념노드로 이용하여 새로운 특이성을 추론하며, 개념노드간의 인과관계를 효율적으로 표현한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.247-250
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• 2003

Due to the increasing use of very large databases, mining useful information and implicit knowledge from databases is evolving. However, most conventional data mining algorithms identify the relationship among features using binary values (TRUE/FALSE or 0/1) and find simple If-THEN rules at a single concept level. Therefore, implicit knowledge and causal relationships among features are commonly seen in real-world database and applications. In this paper, we thus introduce the mechanism of mining fuzzy association rules and constructing causal knowledge base form database. Acausal knowledge base construction algorithm based on Fuzzy Cognitive Map(FCM) and Srikant and Agrawal's association rule extraction method were proposed for extracting implicit causal knowledge from database. Fuzzy association rules are well suited for the thinking of human subjects and will help to increase the flexibility for supporting users in making decisions or designing the fuzzy systems. It integrates fuzzy set concept and causal knowledge-based data mining technologies to achieve this purpose. The proposed mechanism consists of three phases: First, adaptation of the fuzzy membership function to the database. Second, extraction of the fuzzy association rules using fuzzy input values. Third, building the causal knowledge base. A credit example is presented to illustrate a detailed process for finding the fuzzy association rules from a specified database, demonstration the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.70-77
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• 1998

Although many methods of knowledge acquisition has been developed in the exper systems field, such a need form causal knowledge acquisition hs not been stressed relatively. In this respect, this paper is aimed at suggesting a causal knowledge acquisition process, and then investigate the causal knowledge-based inference process. A vehicle for causal knowledge acquisition is FCM (Fuzzy Cognitive Map), a fuzzy signed digraph with causal relationships between concept variables found in a specific application domain. Although FCM has a plenty of generic properties for causal knowledge acquisition, it needs some theoretical improvement for acquiring a more refined causal knowledge. In this sense, we refine fuzzy implications of FCM by proposing fuzzy causal relationship and fuzzy partially causal relationship. To test the validity of our proposed approach, we prototyped a causal knowledge-driven inference engine named CAKES and then experimented with some illustrative examples.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.239-266
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• 2004

This article presents new perspectives for analysing and diagnosing students' mathematical errors on the basis of Pascaul-Leone's neo-Piagetian theory. Although Pascaul-Leone's theory is a cognitive developmental theory, its psychological mechanism gives us new insights on mathematical errors. We analyze mathematical errors in the domain of proof problem solving comparing Pascaul-Leone's psychological mechanism with mathematical errors and diagnose misleading factors using Schoenfeld's levels of analysis and structure and fuzzy cognitive map(FCM). FCM can present with cause and effect among preconceptions or misconceptions that students have about prerequisite proof knowledge and problem solving. Conclusions could be summarized as follows: 1) Students' mathematical errors on proof problem solving and LC learning structures have the same nature. 2) Structures in items of students' mathematical errors and misleading factor structures in cognitive tasks affect mental processes with the same activation mechanism. 3) LC learning structures were activated preferentially in knowledge structures by F operator. With the same activation mechanism, the process students' mathematical errors were activated firstly among conceptions could be explained.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.342-348
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• 2004

As the advent of the Internet, B2B negotiation process on the Internet has been given attention from both researchers and practitioners. However, literature still shows that only structured conditions have been explicitly considered, despite the fact that unstructured conditions should be rendered as well. In this sense, this paper proposes a new negotiation support mechanism to incorporate causal relationships between structured and unstructured conditions in the process of B2B negotiation. Fuzzy cognitive map was used as a main source of causal knowledge as well causal inference engine. A prototype named CAKES-NEGO was developed to perform experiments with an illustrative example. Results revealed the robustness of our proposed negotiation support mechanism.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1993.07a
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• pp.430-432
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• 1993

In this paper, an algorithm for the fault diagnosis using simple FCM(Fuzzy Cognitive Map) is proposed FCMs which store uncertain causal knowledges are fuzzy signed graphs with feedback. The algorithm allows searching the origin of fault and the ways of propagating the abnormality throughout the process simply and has following characteristics. First, it can distinguish the cause of soft failure which can degenerate the process as well as hard failure. Second, it is proper for the processes which have difficulties to establish the exact quantative model. Finally, it has short amputation time in comparison with the fault tree or the other AI methods. The applicability of the proposed algorithm for the fault diagonosis to a tank or pipeline system is demonstrated