This paper explores the application of ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators to develop water quality index, which incorporates an attitudinal dimension in the aggregation process. The major thrust behind selecting the OWA operator for aggregation of multi-criteria decision-making is its capability to encompass a range of operators bounded between minimum and maximum. A new approach for ge...

R. Yager [6] introduced a new aggregation technique based on the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators. In this article we illustrate the applicability of OWA operators to a doctoral student selection problem at the Graduate School of Turku Centre for Computer Science.

The use of the Yager’s OWA operators within a flexible querying interface is discussed. The key issue is the adaptation of an OWA operator to the specifics of a user’s query. Some well-known approaches to the manipulation of the weights vector are reconsidered and a new one is proposed that is simple and efficient.

The weighted ordered weighted averaging(WOWA) operator introduced by Torra is an important aggregation technique, which includes the famous weighted averaging(WA) operator and the ordered weighted averaging(OWA) operator as special cases. In this paper, we introduce a new hesitant fuzzy decision making technique called the hesitant fuzzy weighted OWA(HFWOWA) operator. It is an extension of the ...

In this contribution we propose a method for generating OWA weighting vectors from the individual assessments on a set of alternatives in such a way that these weights minimize the disagreement among individual assessments and the outcome provided by the OWA operator. For measuring that disagreement we have aggregated distances between individual and collective assessments by using a metric and...

The Borda rule, originally defined on profiles of individual preferences modelled as linear orders over the set alternatives, is one most important voting rules. But rules often need to be used a different format well, such top-truncated orders, where agents rank just their preferred alternatives. What right generalisation rule richer models preference? Several suggestions have been made in lit...

R. Yager [7] introduced a new aggregation technique based on the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators. In this article we illustrate the applicability of OWA operators to a doctoral student selection problem at the Graduate School of Turku Centre for Computer Science.

Heterogeneous and autonomous web sites contain information that cannot be easily processed by automated tools. To address the heterogeneity issues, one attempt is to add metadata to Web pages to provide semantic description of the web pages and other kinds of web objects. This is also known as web annotation. Ontology-based Web annotation (OWA) is a kind of web annotation that associates ontolo...

The Reference Point Method (RPM) is an interactive technique for multiple criteria optimization problems. It is based on optimization of the scalarizing achievement function built as the augmented maxmin aggregation of individual outcomes with respect to the given reference levels. Actually, the worst individual achievement is optimized, but regularized with the term representing the average ac...

In 1988 Ronald R. Yager [14] introduced a new aggregation technique based on the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators. The goal of this paper is to present a short survey of of OWA operators and illustrate their applicability by a real-life example.