On quasi-metric aggregation functions and fixed point theorems
The problem of how to merge, by means of a function, a family of metrics into a single one was studied deeply by J. Borsík and J. Doboš [On a product of metric spaces, Math. Slovaca31 (1981) 193–205]. Motivated by the utility of quasi-metrics in Computer Science, the Borsík and Doboš study was exten...
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| Vydáno v: | Fuzzy sets and systems Ročník 228; s. 88 - 104 |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Elsevier B.V
01.10.2013
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| ISSN: | 0165-0114, 1872-6801 |
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| Shrnutí: | The problem of how to merge, by means of a function, a family of metrics into a single one was studied deeply by J. Borsík and J. Doboš [On a product of metric spaces, Math. Slovaca31 (1981) 193–205]. Motivated by the utility of quasi-metrics in Computer Science, the Borsík and Doboš study was extended to the quasi-metric context in such a way that a general description of how to combine through a function a family of quasi-metrics in order to obtain a single one as output was provided by G. Mayor and O. Valero [Aggregation of asymmetric distances in Computer Science, Inform. Sci.180 (2010) 803–812]. In this paper, inspired by the fact that fixed point theory provides an efficient tool in many fields of applied sciences, we have proved fixed point theorems for a new type of contractions, that we have called projective Φ-contractions, defined between quasi-metric spaces that have been obtained via the so-called quasi-metric aggregation functions. Moreover, we show that the new fixed point results are useful to discuss, on the one hand, the complexity of a collection of recursive programs whose running times of computing hold a coupled system of recurrence equations and, on the other hand, to analyze simultaneously the complexity and the correctness of recursive algorithms that perform a computation by means of a recursive denotational specification. |
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| Bibliografie: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0165-0114 1872-6801 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.fss.2012.08.009 |