Notwithstanding the success of the notion of construction, the computational tradition still lacks a way to represent the semantic content of these linguistic entities. Here we present a simple corpus-based model implementing the idea that the meaning of a syntactic construction is intimately related to the semantics of its typical verbs. It is a two-step process, that starts by identifying the...

We investigate the multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems in which the attribute values take the form of 2-tuple linguistic information. Motivated by the ideal of dependent aggregation [Xu, Z. S. (2006). Dependent OWA operators. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 3885, 172–178], in this paper, we develop some dependent 2-tuple linguistic aggregation operators: the depe...

Yager considered the problem of maximizing an OWA aggregation of a group of variables that are interrelated and constrained by a collection of linear inequalities and he showed how this problem can be modelled as a mixed integer linear programming problem. In this short communication we show a simple algorithm for exact computation of optimal solutions to a constrained OWA aggregation problem w...

Recommender systems have become significant tools in electronic commerce, proposing effectively those items that best meet the preferences of users. A variety of techniques have been proposed for the recommender systems such as, collaborative filtering and content-based filtering. This study proposes a new hybrid recommender system that focuses on improving the performance under the “new user c...

Emotion perception is a complex process, often measured using stimuli presentation experiments that query evaluators for their perceptual ratings of emotional cues. These evaluations contain large amounts of variability both related and unrelated to the evaluated utterances. One approach to handling this variability is to model emotion perception at the individual level. However, the perception...

The ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator by Yager (IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern 1988; 18; 183–190) has received much more attention since its appearance. One key point in the OWA operator is to determine its associated weights. Among numerous methods that have appeared in the literature, we notice the maximum entropy OWA (MEOWA) weights that are determined by taking into account two appealin...

The ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator was developed by Yager [IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybernet. 18 (1998) 183]. Later, Yager and Filev [IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybernet.––Part B 29 (1999) 141] introduced a more general class of OWA operators called the induced ordered weighted averaging (IOWA) operators, which take as their argument pairs, called OWA pairs, in which one component is use...

We investigate multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems with arguments taking the form of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. In order to relieve influence of unfair arguments, a Gaussian distribution-based argument-dependent weighting method and a hybrid support-function-based argument-dependent weighting method are devised by, respectively, measuring support degrees...

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...

Reliability allocation is one of the most important factors to consider when determining the reliability and competitiveness of a product. The feasibility-of-objectives (FOO) technique has become the current standard for assessing reliability designs for military mechanical–electrical systems, whereas the average weighting allocation method is widely used for commercial applications. However, a...