Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) Aggregation Operators - Characterizing Features

Characterizing Features

Two features have been used to characterize the OWA operators. The first is the attudinal character(orness).

This is defined as

It is known that .

In addition AC(max) = 1, A − C(ave) = A − C(med) = 0.5 and A − C(min) = 0. Thus the A − C goes from 1 to 0 as we go from Max to Min aggregation. The attitudinal character characterizes the similarity of aggregation to OR operation(OR is defined as the Max).

The second feature is the dispersion. This defined as

An alternative definition is The dispersion characterizes how uniformly the arguments are being used

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