The FCN Framework: Development and Applications

The Fuzzy Cognitive Network(FCN) framework is a proposition for the operational extension of fuzzy cognitive maps to support the close interaction with the system they describe and consequently become appropriate for adaptive decision making and control applications. They constitute a methodology for data, knowledge, and experience representation based on the exploitation of theories such as fuzzy logic and neurocomputing. This chapter presents the main theoretical results related to the FCN development based on theorems specifying the conditions for the uniqueness of solutions for the FCN concept values. Moreover, case application studies are given, each one demonstrating different aspects of the design and operation of the framework.