Coloured Cognitive Maps for Modelling Decision Contexts

Cognitive Mapping is a form of Causal Mapping developed and popularised by Colin Eden and Fran Ackermann (Eden, 1988, Eden & Ackermann, 2001, Ackermann and Eden, 2001). This paper reports on research in progress to develop, test, and employ extensions to cognitive mapping to support decision mak...

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Main Author: Venable, John
Format: Conference Paper
Published: ceur-ws.org 2005
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Online Access:http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-144/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16752
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description Cognitive Mapping is a form of Causal Mapping developed and popularised by Colin Eden and Fran Ackermann (Eden, 1988, Eden & Ackermann, 2001, Ackermann and Eden, 2001). This paper reports on research in progress to develop, test, and employ extensions to cognitive mapping to support decision making in the context of problem formulation and solutions derivation, comparison, and choice. The paper describes extensions to the method and notation, include the use of colour (or bolding) to indicate whether nodes are desirable or undesirable, the conception of two forms of cognitive maps, the first of which focuses on the current, undesirable context and the second on a desired, future context (and how to achieve it), and a procedure for developing and converting between these two forms of cognitive maps. The paper also describes the current state of the research on coloured cognitive maps, open issues, and planned and proposed future research.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-167522017-05-30T08:12:16Z Coloured Cognitive Maps for Modelling Decision Contexts Venable, John causal map decision support system decision support problem analysis problem solving decision making DSS cognitive map Cognitive Mapping is a form of Causal Mapping developed and popularised by Colin Eden and Fran Ackermann (Eden, 1988, Eden & Ackermann, 2001, Ackermann and Eden, 2001). This paper reports on research in progress to develop, test, and employ extensions to cognitive mapping to support decision making in the context of problem formulation and solutions derivation, comparison, and choice. The paper describes extensions to the method and notation, include the use of colour (or bolding) to indicate whether nodes are desirable or undesirable, the conception of two forms of cognitive maps, the first of which focuses on the current, undesirable context and the second on a desired, future context (and how to achieve it), and a procedure for developing and converting between these two forms of cognitive maps. The paper also describes the current state of the research on coloured cognitive maps, open issues, and planned and proposed future research. 2005 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16752 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-144/ ceur-ws.org restricted
spellingShingle causal map
decision support system
decision support
problem analysis
problem solving
decision making
DSS
cognitive map
Venable, John
Coloured Cognitive Maps for Modelling Decision Contexts
title Coloured Cognitive Maps for Modelling Decision Contexts
title_full Coloured Cognitive Maps for Modelling Decision Contexts
title_fullStr Coloured Cognitive Maps for Modelling Decision Contexts
title_full_unstemmed Coloured Cognitive Maps for Modelling Decision Contexts
title_short Coloured Cognitive Maps for Modelling Decision Contexts
title_sort coloured cognitive maps for modelling decision contexts
topic causal map
decision support system
decision support
problem analysis
problem solving
decision making
DSS
cognitive map
url http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-144/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16752