Meaningful aggregation functions mapping ordinal scales into an ordinal scale: A state of the art

Aequationes Mathematicae

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 207-236

  Marichal, Jean Luc ^a   Mesiar, Radko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Aggregation functions; Comparison meaningfulness; Lattice polynomial functions; Order invariance; Ordinal scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 67949112768     PISSN: 00019054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00010-009-2961-2     Document Type: Review

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