Multivalued Functions Integration:
from Additive to Arbitrary Non-negative
Set Function
Endre Pap
Abstract It is given a short overview of some integrals of multifunctions based
on additive measures, as strong, Aumann and Aumann-Gould integrals. It is con-
sidered also a multi-valued Choquet integral based on a multisubmeasure. Then it
is introduced a set-valued Gould type integral of multifunctions with values in the
family of all nonempty bounded subsets of a real Banach space X and with respect
to an arbitrary non-negative set function. There are given some basic properties of
the integrable multifunctions, and some continuity properties of the multimeasure
induced by set-valued integral.
1 Introduction
Theory of multifunctions, i.e., set-valued maps, correspondences, etc., is important
field of investigations as theoretical and practical applications [1, 2, 4, 5, 9–11, 20,
21, 32, 42, 55, 60]. It allows one to take into account the multiplicity of possible
choices, the lack of information and/or the uncertainty in a lot of situations ranging
from Optimal Control to Economic Theory, see [3, 31, 60]. In particular, measur-
able multifunctions, i.e., set-valued random variables, random sets, are investigated
in probability and statistics, with many applications, see first papers [38, 54]. Var-
ious types of integrals for multifunctions have many applications in mathematical
economics, theory of control, probabilities. Integrals of multifunctions can be used
as an aggregation tool when dealing with a large amount of information fusing and
with data mining problems such as programming and classification. In processes of
subjective evaluation, for instance, the integral of a multifunction can be a tool in
synthetic evaluation of the quality of a given object, when the score function may
E. Pap (B)
Singidunum University, Danijelova 32, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
e-mail: epap@singidunum.ac.rs
E. Pap
Óbuda University, Becsi út 92, Budapest 1034, Hungary
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