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Two emergent properties in aggregation theory are investigated, namely horizontal maxitivity and comonotonic maxitivity (as well as their dual counterparts) which are commonly defined by means of certain functional equations. We completely describe the function classes axiomatized by each of these properties, up to weak versions of monotonicity in the cases of horizontal maxitivity and minitivity. While studying the classes axiomatized by combinations of these properties, we introduce the concept of quasi-polynomial function which appears as a natural extension of the well-established notion of polynomial function. We give further axiomatizations for this class both in terms of functional equations and natural relaxations of homogeneity and median decomposability. As noteworthy particular cases, we investigate the subclasses of quasi-term functions and quasi-weighted maximum and minimum functions, and provide characterizations accordingly.
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Manuscript received: November 24, 2008 and, in final form, May 26, 2009.
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Couceiro, M., Marichal, JL. Axiomatizations of quasi-polynomial functions on bounded chains. Aequat. Math. 78, 195 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00010-009-2969-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00010-009-2969-7