In practical term any result obtained using an ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator heavily depends upon the method to determine the weighting vector. Several approaches for obtaining the associated weights have been suggested in the literature, in which none of them took into account the preference of alternatives. This paper presents a method for determining the OWA weights when the pref...

The basic operations for combining real values in the frame of decision analysis are the Weighted Mean (WM) and the Ordered Weighted Averaging operator (OWA). The weighted mean allows the system to compute an aggregate value from the ones coming from several sources, taking into account the reliability of each information source. Alternatively, the OWA operator allows the user to weight the val...

Environmental indices (EI) are common communication tool used to describe the overall status of environmental systems (e.g. air, water, soil). Development of EI entails the use of mathematical operators to aggregate various non-commensurate input parameters in a logical manner. Ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator is a general mean type operator that provides flexibility in the aggregation...

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.

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.

* On leave of absence from the Department of Electronics and Computers, Transylvania University of Braşov. Abstract – Ordered Weighted Aggregation (OWA) operators represent a distinct family of aggregation operators and were introduced by Yager in [1]. They compute a weighted sum of a number of criteria that must be satisfied. The central element of the OWA operators is that the criteria are re...

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...

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.