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...