Social phenomena can rarely be attributed to single causes--instead, they typically stem
from a myriad of interwoven factors that are often difficult to untangle. Drawing on set theory …

Consumers of the future play an important role in the energy system by leveraging their
household loads to be flexible through demand response (DR) during a high network stress …

Demand Response (DR) is a potential tool to help reduce the network and market stress
with the ever-increasing renewable energy in the electricity system. This study aims to …

This study proposes an application of cognitive maps in the representation of cognitive
structures of the experts and assessment of their development/modification as a result of a …

The preference relations have shown some advantages in handling multi-attribute group
decision making problems, which can assist decision makers to set priorities and make a …

Strategic management researchers have long been fascinated with company performance
in terms of underlying managerial cognition and its interpretation. This paper presents a …

This study investigates cause and effect relationships in cognitive maps and the coexistence
of pairs of such relationships in cognitive maps of a chosen group of decision-makers. We …

It is challenging to design a secure recommendation system on the Internet which can help
users to select their favorite products as less privacy leaked as possible. In this paper, we …

Diagnosis support systems are often disregarded because of their high costs, complicated
inference and inability to modify the knowledge base. The aim of this work is to propose a …

Abstract Configurational Comparative Methods (CCMs) aim to learn causal structures from
datasets by exploiting Boolean sufficiency and necessity relationships. One important …