An ɴ-ary λ-averaging based similarity classifier

Abstract

We introduce a new n-ary λ similarity classifier that is based on a new n-ary λ-averaging operator in the aggregation of similarities. This work is a natural extension of earlier research on similarity based classification in which aggregation is commonly performed by using the OWA-operator. So far λ-averaging has been used only in binary aggregation. Here the λ-averaging operator is extended to the n-ary aggregation case by using t-norms and t-conorms. We examine four different n-ary norms and test the new similarity classifier with five medical data sets. The new method seems to perform well when compared with the similarity classifier.

Keywords

• similarity classifier with λ-averaging
• n-ary λ-averaging operator
• n-ary t-norm
• n-ary t-conorm
• classification