International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Knowledge-based systems in agriculture
Knowledge-based systems in agriculture
Signal flow graphs vs fuzzy cognitive maps in application to qualitative circuit analysis
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Using fuzzy cognitive maps as a system model for failure modes and effects analysis
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Neural fuzzy systems: a neuro-fuzzy synergism to intelligent systems
Neural fuzzy systems: a neuro-fuzzy synergism to intelligent systems
Cognitive mapping and certainty neuron fuzzy cognitive maps
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Automatic construction of FCMs
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
A Soft Computing Approach for Modelling the Supervisor of Manufacturing Systems
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
A weight adaptation method for fuzzy cognitive map learning
Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications
A new hybrid method using evolutionary algorithms to train Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
Applied Soft Computing
Advanced soft computing diagnosis method for tumour grading
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Using fuzzy cognitive map for the relationship management in airline service
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Modeling complex systems using fuzzy cognitive maps
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Contextual fuzzy cognitive map for decision support in geographic information systems
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
On causal inference in fuzzy cognitive maps
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
Review: Simulation models applied to crops with potential for biodiesel production
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Expert system based controller for the high-accuracy automatic assembly of vehicle headlamps
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Analyzing of CPFR success factors using fuzzy cognitive maps in retail industry
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Computing transitive closure of bipolar weighted digraphs
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Yield prediction in apples using Fuzzy Cognitive Map learning approach
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Dynamic risks modelling in ERP maintenance projects with FCM
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Modeling maintenance projects risk effects on ERP performance
Computer Standards & Interfaces
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The management of cotton yield behavior in agricultural areas is a very important task because it influences and specifies the cotton yield production. An efficient knowledge-based approach utilizing the method of fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) for characterizing cotton yield behavior is presented in this research work. FCM is a modelling approach based on exploiting knowledge and experience. The novelty of the method is based on the use of the soft computing method of fuzzy cognitive maps to handle experts' knowledge and on the unsupervised learning algorithm for FCMs to assess measurement data and update initial knowledge. The advent of precision farming generates data which, because of their type and complexity, are not efficiently analyzed by traditional methods. The FCM technique has been proved from the literature efficient and flexible to handle experts' knowledge and through the appropriate learning algorithms can update the initial knowledge. The FCM model developed consists of nodes linked by directed edges, where the nodes represent the main factors in cotton crop production such as texture, organic matter, pH, K, P, Mg, N, Ca, Na and cotton yield, and the directed edges show the cause-effect (weighted) relationships between the soil properties and cotton field. The proposed method was evaluated for 360 cases measured for three subsequent years (2001, 2003 and 2006) in a 5ha experimental cotton yield. The proposed FCM model enhanced by the unsupervised nonlinear Hebbian learning algorithm, was achieved a success of 75.55%, 68.86% and 71.32%, respectively for the years referred, in estimating/predicting the yield between two possible categories (''low'' and ''high''). The main advantage of this approach is the sufficient interpretability and transparency of the proposed FCM model, which make it a convenient consulting tool in describing cotton yield behavior.