Relaxations of associativity and preassociativity for variadic functions

DOI10.1016/J.FSS.2015.11.003MaRDI QIDQ1677952zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Miguel Couceiro, Jean-Luc Marichal, Bruno Teheux

Publication date 14 November 2017

Published in Fuzzy Sets and Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03310

zbMATH Keywords

associativityaxiomatizationfactorizationfunctional equationpreassociativitystring functionvariadic function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional equations for functions with more general domains and/or ranges (39B52)

Abstract: In this paper we consider two properties of variadic functions, namely associativity and preassociativity, that are pertaining to several data and language processing tasks. We propose parameterized relaxations of these properties and provide their descriptions in terms of factorization results. We also give an example where these parameterized notions give rise to natural hierarchies of functions and indicate their potential use in measuring the degrees of associativeness and preassociativeness. We illustrate these results by several examples and constructions and discuss some open problems that lead to further directions of research.

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