Aggregation on bipolar scales

The paper addresses the problem of extending aggregation operators typically defined on $[0,1]$ to the symmetric interval $[-1,1]$, where the ``0'' value plays a particular role (neutral value). We distinguish the cases where aggregation operators are associative or not. In the former case, the ``0'' value may play the role of neutral or absorbant element, leading to pseudo-addition and pseudo-multiplication. We address also in this category the special case of minimum and maximum defined on some finite ordinal scale. In the latter case, we find that a general class of extended operators can be defined using an interpolation approach, supposing the value of the aggregation to be known for ternary vectors.bipolar scale; bi-capacity; aggregation

Multiplication, distributivity and fuzzy-integral. I

summary:The main purpose is the introduction of an integral which covers most of the recent integrals which use fuzzy measures instead of measures. Before we give our framework for a fuzzy integral we motivate and present in a first part structure- and representation theorems for generalized additions and generalized multiplications which are connected by a strong and a weak distributivity law, respectively