Fuzzy cognitive maps to conceptualize complex problems

TABLE OF CONTENTS - BELOW Fuzzy cognitive maps to conceptualize complex problems Dr. Steven Gray, Michigan State University Dr. Gray is an ecologist and a leader in the field of participatory modeling - an approach to socio-ecological modeling that leverages concepts such as collective wisdom/intelligence, wisdom of the crowd and co-production of research. His work is inspired by a desire to foster good decision-making regarding complex problems so as to maximize the efficacy of the decision and the satisfaction of the stakeholders involved. Here he explains and illustrates these principles and describes a decision-support tool that is based on fuzzy cognitive mapping as a means of problem/system formulation and analysis. 00:00 Speaker introduction (Hector Quemada, Ph. D.) 1:23 Opening Remarks 1:55 Speaker background/biography 2:50 Example: of earlier work Fisheries By-Catch Problem 6:40 Wicked Problems 7:53 Research Frontiers in Collaborative Modeling 8:50 Knowledge Integration 10:01 Knowledge about transformation can be independent 10:31 Knowledge about transformation can be conflicting or rejected 10:50 Knowledge about transformation can be integrated. 11:15 Mental Modeler: A tool 11:41 Video description 13:55 Review of how modeler has been used – Collaborative modeling. 15:30 Environmental Modeling with Stakeholders 15:52 Process workflow 16:35 Off the shelf tools and approaches-for modeling 17:44 Tradeoffs of various modeling 18:36 Flint Michigan food security example 19:54 Co-production of research 20:40 Convergene Research at NSF 21:34 Collective Intelligence 22:56 Wisdom of the Crowd 24:51 2 Exploratory Studies using Wisdom of the Crowd 26:05 Collective intelligence to model complex socio-environmental systems 30:05 Role of knowledge diversity 34:07 Harnessing Collective Intelligence 34:57 Whose knowledge needs to be integrated 35:16 Relating this to GeneConvene 37:40 Whose knowledge needs to be integrated part 2 38:08 Mental Modeler Demonstration- audience participation/question and answers.