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Linguistic aggregation operators are a powerful tool to aggregate linguistic information, which have been studied and applied in a wide variety of areas, including engineering, decision making, artificial intelligence, data mining, and soft computing. In this chapter, we provide a comprehensive survey of the existing main linguistic aggregation operators, and briefly discuss their characteristics and applications. Finally, we roughly classify all these linguistic aggregation operators and conclude with a discussion of some interesting further research directions.
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Xu, Z. (2008). Linguistic Aggregation Operators: An Overview. In: Bustince, H., Herrera, F., Montero, J. (eds) Fuzzy Sets and Their Extensions: Representation, Aggregation and Models. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 220. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73723-0_9
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