Recent research on fuzzy quantification for information retrieval has proposed the application of semi-fuzzy quantifiers for improving query languages. Fuzzy quantified sentences are useful as they allow additional restrictions to be imposed on the retrieval process unlike more popular retrieval approaches, which lack the facility to accurately express information needs. For instance, fuzzy qua...

Axiomatic generalizations of OWA operators are introduces and discussed. First, OMA operators based on comonotone modularity are recalled. Then, several kinds of comonotone pseudoadditivity based OWA generalizations are characterized and exemplified. Some of already known OWA generalizations are thus seen from new points of view. In several cases an integral representation of generalized OWA op...

The purpose of this paper is to study a fuzzy multipurpose decision making problem, where the information about the alternatives provided by the experts can be of a diverse nature. The information can be represented by means of preference orderings, utility functions and fuzzy preference relations, and our objective is to establish a general model which cover all possible representations. First...

Ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators have been widely used in decision making these past few years. An important issue facing the OWA operators’ users is the determination of the OWA weights. This paper introduces an OWA determination method based on truncated distributions that enables intuitive generation of OWA weights according to a certain level of risk and trade-off. These two dimen...

In recent decades, population increase and urban development have led to catastrophic environmental consequences. One of the principal objectives achieve “sustainable development” is find suitable landfills. Due their physical characteristics, which a lack landfill sites closeness water bodies, agricultural fields, residential areas, cities Javanrood, Paveh, Ravansar were chosen as necessary re...

In this work we deal with the problem of using OWA operators in color image reduction algorithms. For this reason, we study OWA operators defined on an arbitrary finite lattice endowed with a t-norm and a t-conorm. In the case of RGB color images, we apply OWA operators defined on a finite product lattice. Depending on the OWA operator considered, we see that the reduced images become brighter ...

In Group Decision Making (GDM) the automatic consensus models are guided by different consensus measures which usually are obtained by aggregating similarities observed among experts’ opinions. Most GDM problems based on linguistic approaches use symmetrically and uniformly distributed linguistic term sets to express experts’ opinions. However, there exist problems whose assessments need to be ...