Recent Developments in the Ordered Weighted Averaging Operators: Theory and Practice

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yager, Ronald R. (Editor), Kacprzyk, Janusz (Editor), Beliakov, Gleb (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 265
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

This volume presents the state of the art of new developments, and some interesting and relevant applications of the OWA (ordered weighted averaging) operators. The OWA operators were introduced in the early 1980s by Ronald R. Yager as a conceptually and numerically simple, easily implementable, yet...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Methods
• OWA Operators and Nonadditive Integrals
• The WOWA Operator: A Review
•   Induced Ordered Weighted Averaging Operators
• A review of the OWA determination methods: classification and some extensions
• Spezification of the OWA Operators for Aggregating Uncertain Information with Uncertain Weights
• A majority guided aggregation operator in group decision making Generating OWA Weights from Individual Assessments
• The role of the OWA operators as a unification tool for the representation of collective choice sets
• Applying linguistic OWA operators in consensus models under unbalanced linguistic information
• Part II: Applications
• Fusion Strategies based on the OWA Operator in Environmental Applications
• Decision Making with Dempster-Shafer Theory using Fuzzy Induced Aggregation Operators
• Two methods for image compression/reconstruction using OWA operators
• OWA-based fuzzy m-ary adjacency relations in Social Network Analysis
• Soft Computing in Water Resources Management by Using OWA Operator
• Combination of Similarity Measures in Ontology Matching using the OWA Operator.