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The evaluation of quantified sentences of the form “Q of D are A” is recognized as a suitable tool for quantifier guided aggregation of fuzzy criteria with associated importances. In this paper we discuss the properties any good evaluation method should verify. We study a new method to evaluate quantified sentences. Our new method is shown to be an extension of the quantified aggregation via the Choquet integral when all the criteria are equally important and a monotone increasing quantifier is employed.
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Blanco, I., Delgado, M., Martín-Bautista, M.J., Sánchez, D., Vila, M.A. (2002). Quantifier Guided Aggregation of Fuzzy Criteria with Associated Importances. In: Calvo, T., Mayor, G., Mesiar, R. (eds) Aggregation Operators. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 97. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1787-4_10
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