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IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: Special Issue on Aggregation Operators

Edited by G. Beliakov, T. Calvo and R. Mesiar

 
Aggregation operators (AGOP) play a fundamental role in fuzzy set theory. A lot of theoretical and applied research is performed in this field. Traditional aggregation operators such as the weighted average are now acknowledged as particular cases of more general families of aggregation operations, such as Choquet integrals. Triangular norms and conorms, uninorms, symmetric sums, OWA to name a few, are widely used families of AGOP. It seems, however, that many practitioners are unaware of a significant number of powerful aggregation tools developed by theoreticians, as evidenced by many works referring to a very limited set of classical AGOP. Therefore with agreement and support of editors of TFS we gave decided to prepare a special issue of TFS on aggregation operators.

The prepared special issue of TFS will be open for anyone, and the reviewing process will be standard.

Topics of interest:
• Examples of the use of aggregation operators (AGOPs) in applications
• Behavioral analysis of AGOPs for applications
• Analysis of properties of AGOPs
• Application-driven construction of AGOPs
• AGOPs in expert and decision support systems
• AGOPs in group decision making
• AGOPs in database queries, linguistic summaries, and association rules
• Linguistic-quantifier-based aggregation
• Identification of IGOPs from real data
• Collective choice functions and consensus formation

Guest Editors

G. Beliakov
School of Information Technology
Deakin University
Melbourne, Australia

T. Calvo
Departamento de Ciencias de la Computacion
Universidad de Alcala
Alcala de Henares, Spain

R. Mesiar
Department of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry, Faculty of Civil Engineering
Slovak University of Technology
Bratislava, Slovakia

Timeframe

Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2006
Review: April 2006 - August 2006
Final copies due: October 1, 2006
Publication: May - June 2007

Submissions in electronic form should be done via Manuscript Central, and should indicate that the submission is for the special issue. Submission web site is tfs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com.

In case the author experiences any technical difficulties please contact Dr. G. Beliakov at gleb .a_t. deakin.edu.au.

We look forward to contributions of interested authors!