Weakly Monotone Averaging Functions

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-08852-5_38MaRDI QIDQ5227393zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors T. Wilkin, Gleb Beliakov, Tomasa Calvo

Publication date 26 July 2019

Published in Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.0328

zbMATH Keywords

aggregation functionsmonotonicitynonmonotonic functionspenalty-based functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37)

Abstract: Monotonicity with respect to all arguments is fundamental to the definition of aggregation functions. It is also a limiting property that results in many important non-monotonic averaging functions being excluded from the theoretical framework. This work proposes a definition for weakly monotonic averaging functions, studies some properties of this class of functions and proves that several families of important non-monotonic means are actually weakly monotonic averaging functions. Specifically we provide sufficient conditions for weak monotonicity of the Lehmer mean and generalised mixture operators. We establish weak monotonicity of several robust estimators of location and conditions for weak monotonicity of a large class of penalty-based aggregation functions. These results permit a proof of the weak monotonicity of the class of spatial-tonal filters that include important members such as the bilateral filter and anisotropic diffusion. Our concept of weak monotonicity provides a sound theoretical and practical basis by which (monotone) aggregation functions and non-monotone averaging functions can be related within the same framework, allowing us to bridge the gap between these previously disparate areas of research.

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