TY - GEN
T1 - Fuzzy modeling approach for integrated assessments using cultural theory
AU - Yazici, Adnan
AU - Petry, Fred E.
AU - Pendergraft, Curt
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000.
PY - 2000/1/1
Y1 - 2000/1/1
N2 - It has already been noted that predicting societal responses accurately requires the use of a formal model such as cultural theory. A basic belief of cultural theory is that all societies and their underlying worldviews, irrespective of time or place, must be more or less hierarchic, more or less individualistic, more or less egalitarian, or more or less fatalistic. This approach has a potential for cross-temporal and spatial comparisons that makes it a particularly attractive instrument for a study of the human dimensions of global climate change. However, a significant difficulty in the previous attempts for utilizing cultural theory in integrated assessment models (IAMs) has been the inexactness or uncertainty inherent in both IAMs and cultural theory. In this paper we introduce a fuzzy-based modeling approach that makes use of cultural theory in integrated assessment approach to provide a mechanism for understanding the reaction of a populace to environmental policy decisions.
AB - It has already been noted that predicting societal responses accurately requires the use of a formal model such as cultural theory. A basic belief of cultural theory is that all societies and their underlying worldviews, irrespective of time or place, must be more or less hierarchic, more or less individualistic, more or less egalitarian, or more or less fatalistic. This approach has a potential for cross-temporal and spatial comparisons that makes it a particularly attractive instrument for a study of the human dimensions of global climate change. However, a significant difficulty in the previous attempts for utilizing cultural theory in integrated assessment models (IAMs) has been the inexactness or uncertainty inherent in both IAMs and cultural theory. In this paper we introduce a fuzzy-based modeling approach that makes use of cultural theory in integrated assessment approach to provide a mechanism for understanding the reaction of a populace to environmental policy decisions.
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-45049-1_31
DO - 10.1007/3-540-45049-1_31
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84957900960
SN - 3540676899
SN - 9783540450498
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 250
EP - 260
BT - Intelligent Problem Solving
A2 - Logananthara, Rasiah
A2 - Ali, Moonis
A2 - Palm, Gunther
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 13th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2000
Y2 - 19 June 2000 through 22 June 2000
ER -