OWA Operators in Data Modeling and Reidentification
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsPublished 1 October 2004
Vicenç Torra
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This paper considers two application of OWA operators in this field: model building and information extraction, and the latter application is oriented to the reidentification procedures.
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This paper is devoted to the application of aggregation operators and to the application of ordered weighting averaging (OWA) operators to data mining. In particular, we consider two application of OWA operators in this field: model building and information extraction. The latter application is oriented to the reidentification procedures.
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