A new type of fuzzy integrals for decision making based on bivariate symmetric means

We propose a new generalization of the discrete Choquet integral based on an arbitrary bivariate symmetric averaging function (mean). So far only the means with a natural multivariate extension were used for this purpose. In this paper, we use a general method based on a pruned binary tree to extend symmetric means with no obvious multivariate form, such as the logarithmic, identric, Heronian, Lagrangean, and Cauchy means. The generalized...