TY - JFULL AU - Jos茅 M. Merig贸 and Anna M. Gil-Lafuente PY - 2008/10/ TI - Using the OWA Operator in the Minkowski Distance T2 - International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering SP - 1031 EP - 1040 VL - 2 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/15147 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 21, 2008 N2 - We study different types of aggregation operators such as the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator and the generalized OWA (GOWA) operator. We analyze the use of OWA operators in the Minkowski distance. We will call these new distance aggregation operator the Minkowski ordered weighted averaging distance (MOWAD) operator. We give a general overview of this type of generalization and study some of their main properties. We also analyze a wide range of particular cases found in this generalization such as the ordered weighted averaging distance (OWAD) operator, the Euclidean ordered weighted averaging distance (EOWAD) operator, the normalized Minkowski distance, etc. Finally, we give an illustrative example of the new approach where we can see the different results obtained by using different aggregation operators. ER -