The Ordered Weighted Averaging Operators Book

	Preface
	Kolmogorov's theorem and its impact on soft computing	3
	Possibility and necessity in weighted aggregation	18
	OWA operators and an extension of the contrast model	29
	Equivalence of changes in proportions at crossroads of mathematical theories	36
	On the inclusion of importances in OWA aggregation	41
	On the linguistic OWA operator and extensions	60
	Alternative representations of OWA operators	73
	Useful tools for aggregation procedures: some consequences and applications of Strassen's measurable Hahn-Banach theorem	89
	OWA specificity	98
	Ordered continuous means and information	107
	OWA operators in decision making with uncertainly and nonnumeric payoffs	123
	On the role of immediate probability in various decision making models	139
	Risk management using fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms	155
	OWA operators for doctoral student selection problem	167
	Beyond min aggregation in multicriteria decision: (ordered) weighted mean, discri-min, leximin	181
	OWA operators in group decision making and consensus reaching under fuzzy preferences and fuzzy majority	193
	Applications of the linguistic OWA operators in group decision making	207
	Aggregation rules in committee procedures	219
	Quantified statements and some interpretations for the OWA operators	243
	Using OWA operators in flexible query processing	258
	Application of OWA operators to soften information retrieval systems	275
	Implementation of OWA operators in fuzzy querying for Microsoft Access	293
	OWA-based computing: learning algorithms	309
	OWA operators in machine learning from imperfect examples	321
	An application of OWA operators to the aggregation of multiple classification decisions	330
	Index	345