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Directions of directional, ordered directional and strengthened ordered directional increasingness of linear and ordered linear fusion operators
(IEEE, 2019) Sesma Sara, Mikel; Marco Detchart, Cedric; Lafuente López, Julio; Roldán López de Hierro, Antonio Francisco; Mesiar, Radko; Bustince Sola, Humberto; Estatistika, Informatika eta Matematika; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; Estadística, Informática y Matemáticas; Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa
In this work we discuss the forms of monotonicity that have been recently introduced to relax the monotonicity condition in the definition of aggregation functions. We focus on directional, ordered directional and strengthened ordered directional monotonicity, study their main properties and provide some results about their links and relations among them. We also present two families of functions, the so-called linear fusion functions and ordered linear fusion functions and we study the set of directions for which these types of functions are directionally, ordered directionally and strengthened ordered directionally increasing. In particular, OWA operators are an example of ordered linear fusion functions.
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Strengthened ordered directional and other generalizations of monotonicity for aggregation functions
(Springer, 2018) Sesma Sara, Mikel; Miguel Turullols, Laura de; Lafuente López, Julio; Barrenechea Tartas, Edurne; Mesiar, Radko; Bustince Sola, Humberto; Estatistika, Informatika eta Matematika; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; Estadística, Informática y Matemáticas; Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa
A tendency in the theory of aggregation functions is the generalization of the monotonicity condition. In this work, we examine the latest developments in terms of different generalizations. In particular, we discuss strengthened ordered directional monotonicity, its relation to other types of monotonicity, such as directional and ordered directional monotonicity and the main properties of the class of functions that are strengthened ordered directionally monotone. We also study some construction methods for such functions and provide a characterization of usual monotonicity in terms of these notions of monotonicity.
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Curve-based monotonicity: a generalization of directional monotonicity
(Taylor & Francis, 2019) Roldán López de Hierro, Antonio Francisco; Sesma Sara, Mikel; Špirková, Jana; Lafuente López, Julio; Pradera, Ana; Mesiar, Radko; Bustince Sola, Humberto; Estatistika, Informatika eta Matematika; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; Estadística, Informática y Matemáticas
In this work we propose a generalization of the notion of directional monotonicity. Instead of considering increasingness or decreasingness along rays, we allow more general paths defined by curves in the n-dimensional space. These considerations lead us to the notion of α-monotonicity, where α is the corresponding curve. We study several theoretical properties of α-monotonicity and relate it to other notions of monotonicity, such as weak monotonicity and directional monotonicity.
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Strengthened ordered directionally monotone functions. Links between the different notions of monotonicity
(Elsevier, 2019) Sesma Sara, Mikel; Lafuente López, Julio; Roldán López de Hierro, Antonio Francisco; Mesiar, Radko; Bustince Sola, Humberto; Estatistika, Informatika eta Matematika; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; Estadística, Informática y Matemáticas
In this work, we propose a new notion of monotonicity: strengthened ordered directional monotonicity. This generalization of monotonicity is based on directional monotonicity and ordered directional monotonicity, two recent weaker forms of monotonicity. We discuss the relation between those different notions of monotonicity from a theoretical point of view. Additionally, along with the introduction of two families of functions and a study of their connection to the considered monotonicity notions, we define an operation between functions that generalizes the Choquet integral and the Lukasiewicz implication.
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Ordered directional monotonicity in the construction of edge detectors
(Elsevier, 2021) Marco Detchart, Cedric; Bustince Sola, Humberto; Fernández Fernández, Francisco Javier; Mesiar, Radko; Lafuente López, Julio; Barrenechea Tartas, Edurne; Pintor Borobia, Jesús María; Estatistika, Informatika eta Matematika; Ingeniaritza; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; Estadística, Informática y Matemáticas; Ingeniería
In this paper we provide a specific construction method of ordered directionally monotone functions. We show that the functions obtained with this construction method can be used to build edge detectors for grayscale images. We compare the results of these detectors to those obtained with some other ones that are widely used in the literature. Finally, we show how a consensus edge detector can be built improving the results obtained both by our proposal and by those in the literature when applied individually.