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Acta Polytechnica Hungarica Vol. 3, No. 1, 2006 Dynamic System Using Conjunctive Operator József Dombi árpád tér 2, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary, email: dombi@inf.u-szeged.hu József D. Dombi árpád tér 2, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary, email: dombijd@inf.u-szeged.hu Abstract: We present a tool to describe and simulate dynami systems. We use positive and negative influences. Our starting point is aggregation. We build positive and negative effects with proper transformations of the sigmoid function and using the conjunctive operator. From the input we calculate the output effect with the help of the aggregation operator. This algorithm is comparable with the concept of fuzzy cognitive maps. Keywords: dynamic system, pliant concept, dombi operator 1 Introduction We usually face serious difficulties when we handle sophisticated dynamic systems. Developing a model requires effort and specialized knowledge. Usually a system involves complicated causal chains, which might be nonlinear. It should also be mentioned, that numerical data may be hard to get, they can be even uncertain. Using a classical dynamic system model can be hard computationally. Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) approach overcomes the above mentioned difficulties. FCM was proposed by Kosko [1][2][3] and is a hybrid method that lies in some sense between fuzzy systems and neural networks. Knowledge is represented in a symbolic manner using states, processes and events. All type of informations have numerical values. FCM allows us to perform qualitative simulations and experiment with a dynamic model. FCM has better properties than expert systems, since it is relatively easy to use them to represent structured knowledge and the inference can be computed by numeric matrix operation instead of applying rules. Our solution is similar to FCM. It is called Pliant Cognitive Map (P