Definition
Formally an OWA operator of dimension is a mapping that has an associated collection of weights lying in the unit interval and summing to one and with
where is the jth largest of the .
By choosing different W one can implement different aggregation operators. The OWA operator is a non-linear operator as a result of the process of determining the bj.
Read more about this topic: Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) Aggregation Operators
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