Aggregation operators: new trends and applications

1 Aggregation Operators: Basic Concepts, Issues and Properties.- Aggregation Operators: Properties, Classes and Construction Methods.- 2 Theoretical Aspects of Aggregation Operators.- Aggregation Based on Integrals: Recent Results and Trends.- Associative Aggregation Operators.- Continuous WOWA Operators with Application to Defuzzification.- Using Importances in Group Preference Aggregation to Block Strategic Manipulation.- 3 Applications of Aggregation Operators.- Aggregation Operators in Engineering Design.- Aggregation of Interacting Criteria by Means of the Discrete Choquet Integral.- Representation Models for Aggregating Linguistic Information: Issues and Analysis.- Aggregation Techniques for Statistical Confidentiality.- Quantifier Guided Aggregation of Fuzzy Criteria with Associated Importances.- 4 Fuzzy Quantities and Their Aggregation.- Verbally Generated Fuzzy Quantities and Their Aggregation.