Aggregation Functions: A Guide for Practitioners

Gleb Beliakov|Ana Pradera|Tomasa Calvo

ISBN 10: 3642092896 / ISBN 13: 9783642092893

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010

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Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Broad introduction into the topic of aggregation functions and discusses in detail the four broad classes of aggregation operators: averaging operators, conjunctive, disjunctive and mixed operatorsComes with a software package AOTool, which can be. Seller Inventory # 5048306

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Title: Aggregation Functions: A Guide for ...

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Soft cover

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Synopsis:

A broad introduction to the topic of aggregation functions is to be found in this book. It also provides a concise account of the properties and the main classes of such functions. Some state-of-the-art techniques are presented, along with many graphical illustrations and new interpolatory aggregation functions. Particular attention is paid to identification and construction of aggregation functions from application specific requirements and empirical data.

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Aggregation of information is of primary importance in the construction of knowledge based systems in various domains, ranging from medicine, economics, and engineering to decision-making processes, artificial intelligence, robotics, and machine learning. This book gives a broad introduction into the topic of aggregation functions, and provides a concise account of the properties and the main classes of such functions, including classical means, medians, ordered weighted averaging functions, Choquet and Sugeno integrals, triangular norms, conorms and copulas, uninorms, nullnorms, and symmetric sums. It also presents some state-of-the-art techniques, many graphical illustrations and new interpolatory aggregation functions. A particular attention is paid to identification and construction of aggregation functions from application specific requirements and empirical data. This book provides scientists, IT specialists and system architects with a self-contained easy-to-use guide, as well as examples of computer code and a software package. It will facilitate construction of decision support, expert, recommender, control and many other intelligent systems.