Weighted sums of aggregation operators

he aim of this work is to investigate when a weighted sum, or in other words, a linear combination, of two or more aggregation operators leads to a new aggregation operator. For weights belonging to the real unit interval, we obtain a convex combination and the answer is known to be always positive....

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Autores: Calvo Sánchez, Tomasa, Baets, Bernard de, Mesiar, Radko
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1999
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2099/3542
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2099/3542
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Aggregation operator
Quasi-arithmetic mean
OWA operator
Weighted sum
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Classificació AMS::03 Mathematical logic and foundations::03E Set theory
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Sumario:he aim of this work is to investigate when a weighted sum, or in other words, a linear combination, of two or more aggregation operators leads to a new aggregation operator. For weights belonging to the real unit interval, we obtain a convex combination and the answer is known to be always positive. However, we will show that also other weights can be used, depending upon the aggregation operators involved. A first set of suitable weights is obtained by a general method based on the variation of the partial derivatives of the aggregation operators. When considering the combination of OWA operators only, all suitable weights can be determined. These results are described explicitly for the case of two aggregation operators, and also for the case of two and three OWA operators.