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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

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

in Bibtex Style

@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