Preassociative aggregation functions

The classical property of associativity is very often considered in aggregation function theory and fuzzy logic. In this paper we provide axiomatizations of various classes of preassociative functions, where preassociativity is a generalization of associativity recently introduced by the authors. These axiomatizations are based on existing characterizations of some noteworthy classes of associative operations, such as the class of Acz\'elian semigroups and the class of t-norms.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1309.730

Strongly barycentrically associative and preassociative functions

We study the property of strong barycentric associativity, a stronger version of barycentric associativity for functions with indefinite arities. We introduce and discuss the more general property of strong barycentric preassociativity, a generalization of strong barycentric associativity which does not involve any composition of functions. We also provide a generalization of Kolmogoroff-Nagumo's characterization of the quasi-arithmetic mean functions to strongly barycentrically preassociative functions.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1406.434

A characterization of barycentrically preassociative functions

We provide a characterization of the variadic functions which are barycentrically preassociative as compositions of length-preserving associative string functions with one-to-one unary maps. We also discuss some consequences of this characterization

Molecular recognition of adenosine derivatives

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-131).by Michael Morgan Conn.Ph.D

Associative and preassociative aggregation functions (invited lecture)

Dans cette présentation, nous étudions la propriété d'associativité pour les fonctions d'agrégation à arités multiples et nous introduisons la propriété plus générale de préassociativité qui n'implique aucune composition de fonctions. Nous étudions cette nouvelle propriété et nous décrivons certaines classes de fonction préassociatives. Nous montrons aussi comment des axiomatisations de plusieurs classes de functions (comme les semi-groupes aczéliens ou les polynômes latticiels associatifs) peuvent être obtenues en affaiblissant l'associativité en la remplaçant par la préassociativité