To characterize the influence of decision makers’ psychological factors on the group decision process, this paper develops a new class of aggregation operators based on reference-dependent utility functions (RUs) in multi-attribute group decision analysis. We consider two types of RUs: S-shaped, representing decision makers who are risk-seeking for relative losses, and non-S-shaped, representin...

In a rather general, essentially aggregation operator based discussion of the traditional fuzzy control strategies known as FATI and FITA strategies, a way to reduce these strategies to one another has been to define pairs of aggregation distributive aggregation operators. In this paper it is shown that for some often used special cases this reduction condition allows only the set theoretic uni...

In this paper, we firstly propose some generalized prioritized aggregation operators to aggregate the intuitionistic fuzzy values (IFVs), such as the generalized intuitionistic fuzzy prioritized weighted geometric (GIFPWG) operator and the generalized intuitionistic fuzzy prioritized weighted average (GIFPWA) operator. It is shown that some existing intuitionistic fuzzy aggregation operators ar...

Yager et al. first introduce compensatory operators. This paper further introduces a kind of weighted compensatory operators, and a kind of prioritised compensatory operators. The difference between these similar classes of operators are identified. In addition, the paper introduces the concepts of ordered weighted/prioritised compensatory aggregation. Keywords—Compensatory aggregation, weight,...

Aggregation operators transform a finite number of inputs, called arguments, into a single output. They are applied in many theoretical and practical domains and in particular aggregation operators play important role in different approaches to decision making, where values to be aggregated are typically preference or satisfaction degrees. Many operators of different type have been considered i...

This paper investigates the satisfaction of the Non-Contradiction (NC) and Excluded-Middle (EM) laws within the domain of aggregation operators. It provides characterizations both for those aggregation operators that satisfy NC/EM with respect to (w.r.t.) some given strong negation, as well as for those satisfying them w.r.t. any strong negation. The results obtained are applied to some of the ...

In this paper we introduce the semi-uninorm based ordered weighted averaging (SUOWA) operators, a new class of aggregation functions that, as WOWA operators, simultaneously generalize weighted means and OWA operators. To do this we take into account that weighted means and OWA operators are particular cases of Choquet integral. So, SUOWA operators are Choquet integral-based operators where thei...

The present paper introduces aggregative spaces and their category AGS, and then establishes a dual adjunction between AGS and the category Agop of aggregation operators on bounded partially ordered sets. Spatial aggregation operators and sober aggregative spaces, enabling us to restrict the dual adjunction between AGS and Agop to a dual equivalence between the full subcategory of Agop consisti...

Our paper deals with constructions of upper and lower general aggregation operators, which are based in their definitions on a fuzzy equivalence relation. We study some properties of these aggregation operators which are important in the context of aggregation of fuzzy sets. In particular we consider different types of monotonicity and show that obtained results allow us to describe approximate...

Techniques of information aggregation are mainly being used in decision making or when a system needs a comprehensive representation of its application domain. Recently, aggregation operators have been also applied for defuzzification where the defuzzified value is calculated as an aggregation of all possible solutions according to their attached possibility. In this paper we propose and analyz...