Aggregation Functions: A Guide for Practitioners

Download or read book Aggregation Functions: A Guide for Practitioners written by Gleb Beliakov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-09 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad introduction to the topic of aggregation functions is to be found in this book. It also provides a concise account of the properties and the main classes of such functions. Some state-of-the-art techniques are presented, along with many graphical illustrations and new interpolatory aggregation functions. Particular attention is paid to identification and construction of aggregation functions from application specific requirements and empirical data.