Decision Making by Hybrid Probabilistic - Possibilistic Utility Theory

It is presented an approach to decision theory based upon nonprobabilistic uncertainty. There is an axiomatization of the hybrid probabilisticpossibilistic mixtures based on a pair of triangular conorm and triangular norm satisfying restricted distributivity law, and the corresponding non-additive Smeasure. This is characterized by the families of operations involved in generalized mixtures, based upon a previous result on the characterization of the pair of continuous t-norm and t-conorm such that the former is restrictedly distributive over the latter. The obtained family of mixtures combines probabilistic and idempotent (possibilistic) mixtures via a threshold.Decision making, Utility theory, Possibilistic mixture, Hybrid probabilistic- possibilistic mixture, Triangular norm, Triangular conorm, Pseudoadditive measure.

Cafiero approach to the Dieudonné type theorems

AbstractAn algebra of subsets of a normal topological space containing the open sets is considered and in this context the uniform exhaustivity and uniform regularity for a family of additive functions are studied. Based on these results the Cafiero convergence theorem with the Dieudonné type conditions is proved and in this way also the Nikodým–Dieudonné convergence theorem is obtained

Aggregation functions: Means

The two-parts state-of-art overview of aggregation theory summarizes the essential information concerning aggregation issues. Overview of aggregation properties is given, including the basic classification of aggregation functions. In this first part, the stress is put on means, i.e., averaging aggregation functions, both with fixed arity (n-ary means) and with open arity (extended means).

The Choquet integral as Lebesgue integral and related inequalities

summary:The integral inequalities known for the Lebesgue integral are discussed in the framework of the Choquet integral. While the Jensen inequality was known to be valid for the Choquet integral without any additional constraints, this is not more true for the Cauchy, Minkowski, Hölder and other inequalities. For a fixed monotone measure, constraints on the involved functions sufficient to guarantee the validity of the discussed inequalities are given. Moreover, the comonotonicity of the considered functions is shown to be a sufficient constraint ensuring the validity of all discussed inequalities for the Choquet integral, independently of the underlying monotone measure

Invariant copulas

summary:Copulas which are invariant with respect to the construction of the corresponding survival copula and other related dualities are studied. A full characterization of invariant associative copulas is given

Contribution on some construction methods for aggregation functions

In this paper, based on [14], we present some well established construction methods for aggregation functions as well as some new ones