Validation of a Cognitive Map - Definition of Quality Criteria to Detect Contradictions in a Cognitive Map

Aymeric Le Dorze, Laurent Garcia, David Genest, Stéphane Loiseau

2014

Abstract

A cognitive map is a knowledge representation model. Knowledge is represented as a graph where nodes represent concepts and arcs represent influences between these concepts. Each influence has a value that quantifies it. Despite the fact that a cognitive map is quite simple to build, some influence values may contradict each other. This paper provides some quality criteria in order to validate a cognitive map. There are two kinds of quality criteria. The verification validates a cognitive map by computing its internal coherency. The test validates a map from a set of constraints provided by the designer. These criteria indicate if a map does or does not contain contradictions. We also propose a way to adapt these criteria according to the possible values that an influence can take.

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Le Dorze A., Garcia L., Genest D. and Loiseau S. (2014). Validation of a Cognitive Map - Definition of Quality Criteria to Detect Contradictions in a Cognitive Map . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-015-4, pages 320-327. DOI: 10.5220/0004757103200327


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@conference{icaart14,
author={Aymeric Le Dorze and Laurent Garcia and David Genest and Stéphane Loiseau},
title={Validation of a Cognitive Map - Definition of Quality Criteria to Detect Contradictions in a Cognitive Map},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2014},
pages={320-327},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004757103200327},
isbn={978-989-758-015-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Validation of a Cognitive Map - Definition of Quality Criteria to Detect Contradictions in a Cognitive Map
SN - 978-989-758-015-4
AU - Le Dorze A.
AU - Garcia L.
AU - Genest D.
AU - Loiseau S.
PY - 2014
SP - 320
EP - 327
DO - 10.5220/0004757103200327