Importance weighted averaging is a central information processing task in multicriteria decision problems of many kinds, such that selection, classification, object recognition, query answering, and information retrieval. These problems are characterized by a query, i.e., a set of importance weighted criteria, and a set of options queried. While each criterion determines a ranking of the option...

Abstract We characterize all pairs of entire functions $$(u,\psi )$$ ( u , ψ ) for which the induced weighted superposition operator $$S_{(u,\psi )}$$ S transforms one Fock space ...