State Aviation Risk Assessment Level Determination Using Hierarchical Fuzzy Inference System Based on Cognitive Maps

During 2018, ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization, a specialized UN organization) made available the results of its USOAP (Universal Safety Oversight Audit Program): the ratio of compliance for each ICAO member State to 1047 aviation safety-related protocol questions, divided into eight audit areas. Numbers itself has little meaning, even for aviation personnel. Using Cognitive Mapping (CogMap), a Problem Structuring Method tool, this paper develops a framework to extract and organize information from aviation specialists, allowing define Risk Assessment Level for each State, and for each Aviation Safety Branch defined. Using Fuzzy Inference Systems (FIS), helpful supporting decision making, Big Data available from ICAO is converted to Risk Levels for each State and audit area, what may be used to make informed better Safety decisions on the World Aviation Market. Up to the moment, there’s no evidence on the literature of using CogMap to establish a FIS.