1. The increasing number of research papers appeared in the last years that either make use of aggregation functions or contribute to its theoretieal study asses its growing importance in the field of Fuzzy Logie and in others where uncertainty and imprecision play a relevant role. Since these papers are pub- lished in many journals, few books and several proceedings of conferences, books on aggregation are partieularly welcome. To my knowledge, "Agrega- tion Operators. New Trends and Applications" is the first book aiming at generality, and I take it as a honour to write this Foreword in...
1. The increasing number of research papers appeared in the last years that either make use of aggregation functions or contribute to its theoretieal ...