Some properties of the weighted OWA operator

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 118-127

  Liu, Xinwang ^a  

^a Southeast University   (China)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Preference decision; RIM quantifier; Weighted OWA operator

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY;

PREFERENCE DECISION; REGULAR INCREASING MONOTONE (RIM) QUANTIFIER; WEIGHTED ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGE (WOWA) OPERATOR;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FUZZY LOGIC; METHODOLOGY; SYSTEMS THEORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FUZZY LOGIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 31744446021     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.854496     Document Type: Article

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