On the relationship between symmetric maxitive, minitive, and modular aggregation operators

In this paper the relationship between symmetric minitive, maxitive, and modular aggregation operators is considered. It is shown that the intersection between any two of the three discussed classes is the same. Moreover, the intersection is explicitly characterized. It turns out that the intersection contains families of aggregation operators such as OWMax, OWMin, and many generalizations of the widely-known Hirsch’s h-index, often applied in scientific quality control.