This volume presents a unified approach to the mathematical theory of a
wide class of non-additive set functions, the so called null-additive
set functions, which also includes classical measure theory. It includes
such important set functions as capacities, triangular set functions,
some fuzzy measures, submeasures, decomposable measures, possibility
measures, distorted probabilities, autocontinuous set functions, etc.
The usefulness of the theory is demonstrated by applications in
nonlinear differential and difference equations; fractal geometry in the
theory of chaos; the approximation of functions in modular spaces by
nonlinear singular integral operators; and in the theory of diagonal
theorems as a universal method for proving general and fundamental
theorems in functional analysis and measure theory.
Audience: This book will be of value to researchers and postgraduate
students in mathematics, as well as in such diverse fields as knowledge
engineering, artificial intelligence, game theory, statistics,
economics, sociology and industry