Measure and integral with purely ordinal scales

We develop a purely ordinal model for aggregation functionals for lattice valued functions, comprising as special cases quantiles, the Ky Fan metric and the Sugeno integral. For modeling findings of psychological experiments like the reflection effect in decision behaviour under risk or uncertainty, we introduce reflection lattices. These are complete linear lattices endowed with an order reversing bijection like the reflection at 0 on the real interval $[-1,1]$. Mathematically we investigate the lattice of non-void intervals in a complete linear lattice, then the class of monotone interval-valued functions and their inner product.

💡 Research Summary

The paper introduces a novel framework for aggregation, measurement, and integration that relies exclusively on ordinal information. Instead of the usual real‑valued setting, the authors work on a complete linear lattice (L) (a totally ordered set where every subset has a supremum and an infimum). On this lattice they consider the collection (\mathcal{I}(L)) of all non‑empty intervals (