Bi-capacities have been recently introduced as a natural generalization of capacities (or fuzzy measures) when the underlying scale is bipolar. They allow to build more flexible models in decision making, although their complexity is of order $3^n$, instead of $2^n$ for fuzzy measures. In order to reduce the complexity, the paper proposes the notion of $p$-symmetric bi- capacities, in the same spirit as for $p$-symmetric fuzzy measures. The main idea is to partition the set of criteria (or states of nature,...

Suppose $E$ is an ordered locally convex space, $X_1$ and $X_2$ Hausdorff completely regular spaces and $Q$ a uniformly bounded, convex and closed subset of $M_t^{+}(X_1\times X_2,E)$. For $i=1,2$, let ${\mu }_i\in M_t^{+}(X_i,E)$. Then, under some topological and order conditions on $E$, necessary and sufficient conditions are established for the existence of an element in $Q$, having marginals ${\mu }_1$ and ${\mu }_2$.

For $i=(1,2)$, let $X_i$ be completely regular Hausdorff spaces, $E_i$ quasi-complete locally convex spaces, $E=E_1\breve{\otimes }{E}_2$, the completion of the their injective tensor product, $C_b\left(X_i\right)$ the spaces of all bounded, scalar-valued continuous functions on $X_i$, and ${\mu }_i$$E_i$-valued Baire measures on $X_i$. Under certain...