OWA operators in the weighted average and their application in decision making

• Autorzy: Merigó J. M.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

We introduce a new aggregation operator that unifies the weighted average (WA) and the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator in a single formulation. We call it the ordered weighted averaging - weighted average (OWAWA) operator. This aggregation operator provides a more complete representation of the weighted average and the OWA operator because it considers the degree of importance that each concept has in the aggregation and includes them as particular cases of a more general context. We study different properties and families of the OWAWA operator. The applicability of this method is very broad because any study that uses the weighted average or the OWA can be revised and extender with our approach. We focus on a multi-person decision-making application in the selection of financial strategies.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

weighted average; OWA operator; decision-making; aggregation operators

• Wydawca: Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Czasopismo: Control and Cybernetics
• Rocznik: 2012
• Tom: Vol. 41, no. 3
• Strony: 605--643
• Opis fizyczny: BIbliogr. 55 poz., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Merigó J. M.

• Department of Business Administration, University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 690, 08034 Barcelona, Spain,

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