A GENERAL-APPROACH TO CRITERIA AGGREGATION USING FUZZY MEASURES

The central focus of this work is to provide a general formulation for the aggregation of multi-criteria. This formulation is based upon the use of fuzzy subsets to model the criteria and the use of fuzzy measures to capture the interrelationship between criteria. A form of the fuzzy integral is used to connect these two to obtain the overall decision function. We are particularly interested here in the formulations obtained under different assumptions about the nature of the underlying fuzzy measure. We show how a number of the classic aggregation methods fall out as special cases of this very general formulation. © 1993 Academic Press. All rights reserved.