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The ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator of Yager was introduced to provide a method for aggregating several inputs which lies between the Max and Min operators. The fundamental aspect of the OWA operator is a reordering step in which the input arguments are re-arranged according to their actual relative value. In this paper we describe a modified OWA operator in which the input arguments are not re-arranged according to their actual relative values but rather according to their estimated relative values. We describe an unusual application of this operator to lossless image compression.
Mitchell et al. (1997) studied this question.