Visualising Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

Visualised presentation of cognitive model can greatly promote the easy comprehension of the model, leading to the wide application of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM). This paper improves the visualisation of FCM from normal weighted digraph to graphs that can differentiate the strength of causal linkage and the strength of the concepts. The advantage of the new model is apparently illustrated through comparing the new model with the existing ones for the FCMs in the recent literature. The visualised FCM is also applied in word cloud analysis on text term frequency presentation, which improves the knowledge modeling through presenting the key linkage among text terms.