Inference in cognitive maps

✍ Scribed by Michael P. Wellman

• Book ID: 103897692
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 954 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4754
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-4754(94)90028-0

✦ Synopsis

Cognitive mapping is a qualitative decision modeling technique developed over twenty years ago by political scientists, which continues to see occasional use in social science and decision-aiding applications.

In this paper, I show how cognitive maps can be viewed in the context of more recent formalisms for qualitative decision modeling, and how the latter provide a firm semantic foundation that can facilitate the development of more powerful inference procedures as well as extensions in expressiveness for models of this sort.

' An alternate, common, but completely independent usage applies to a type of model of geographical knowledge originally developed by Lynch .