Aggregation functions: Means

Information Sciences

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-22

  Grabisch, Michel ^a   Marichal, Jean Luc ^b   Mesiar, Radko ^c,d   Pap, Endre ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^c SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Aggregation function; Choquet integral; Mean; Nonadditive integral

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION FUNCTIONS; AGGREGATION PROPERTY; AGGREGATION THEORY; CHOQUET INTEGRAL; INFORMATION CONCERNING; MEAN; NON-ADDITIVE;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 77958102928     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2010.08.043     Document Type: Article

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