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Modeling Decisions

Information Fusion and Aggregation Operators

  • There is no other authored title on this subject that takes a practical view, in addition to presenting the theory
  • The authors of the current title have been the organizers of the main related conference (MDAI, http://www.mdai.info/mdai2006/) for the last 3 years
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Part of the book series: Cognitive Technologies (COGTECH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-17
  3. Basic Notions

    Pages 19-66
  4. Fuzzy Measures

    Pages 111-145
  5. Selection of the Model

    Pages 219-247
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 249-285

About this book

Information fusion techniques and aggregation operators produce the most comprehensive, specific datum about an entity using data supplied from different sources, thus enabling us to reduce noise, increase accuracy, summarize and extract information, and make decisions. These techniques are applied in fields such as economics, biology and education, while in computer science they are particularly used in fields such as knowledge-based systems, robotics, and data mining.

This book covers the underlying science and application issues related to aggregation operators, focusing on tools used in practical applications that involve numerical information. Starting with detailed introductions to information fusion and integration, measurement and probability theory, fuzzy sets, and functional equations, the authors then cover the following topics in detail: synthesis of judgements, fuzzy measures, weighted means and fuzzy integrals, indices and evaluation methods, model selection, and parameter extraction. The methods are illustrated with representative examples throughout, and there are extensive bibliographies and reading suggestions.

The book is intended for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners such as engineers, computer scientists, statisticians and economists who use decision models and aggregation operators. The reader is assumed to have a nonspecialized background in mathematics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • IIIA-CSIC, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain

    Vicenç Torra

  • Tohogakuen, Tokyo, Japan

    Yasuo Narukawa

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