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Abbreviations

Information integration:

The whole process of obtaining some information from different sources and then using this information to achieve a concrete task.

Information fusion:

A  general term that defines the whole area that studies techniques and methods to combine information for achieving a particular goal.

Aggregation operators:

Particular operators that are actually used for combining the information.

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Torra, V. (2009). Aggregation Operators and Soft Computing. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30440-3_15

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