envelopment analysis (dea) is a very eective method to evaluate the relative eciency of decision-making units (dmus). dea models divided all dmus in two categories: ecient and inecientdmus, and don't able to discriminant between ecient dmus. on the other hand, the observedvalues of the input and output data in real-life problems are sometimes imprecise or vague, suchas interval data, ...

A great deal of research has been made to model the vagueness and uncertainty in information retrieval. One such research is fuzzy ranking models, which have been showing their superior performance in handling the uncertainty involved in the retrieval process. However, these conventional fuzzy ranking models are limited to incorporate the user preference when calculating the rank of documents. ...

In this paper, we want to present a new method for ranking exponential fuzzy numbers with use weighted average and weighted width in TRD distance. Weighted average and weighted width of exponential fuzzy numbers combines in TRD distance for ranking method. A simpler and easier approach is proposed for the ranking of generalized trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. For the validation the results of the pr...

Constrained shortest path problem (CSPP) is an NPComplete problem where the goal is to determine the cheapest path bounded by a given delay constraint. This problem finds application in several fields like television and transportation networks, ATM circuit routing, multimedia applications etc. In these kinds of applications it is important to provide quality of service (QoS). Therefore, it is ...

A method based on cascade fuzzy neural network (CFNN) comprising of a filter module and ranking module is proposed for online voltage contingency screening and ranking under known but uncertain loads. A new fuzzy performance index, which combines voltage violations and voltage stability margin following a contingency, is proposed for effective voltage security ranking. All the selected continge...

The purpose of this research paper was to propose a method which can be utilized to determine the different types of performance measures on the basis of the crisp values for the fuzzy queuing model which has an unreliable server and where the rate of arrival, the rate of service, the rate of breakdown and the rate of repair are all expressed as the fuzzy numbers. In this case the inter arrival...

Ranking of fuzzy numbers play an important role in decision making, optimization, forecasting etc. Fuzzy numbers must be ranked before an action is taken by a decision maker. The main aim of this paper is to propose a new approach for the ranking of generalized fuzzy numbers. The proposed ranking approach is based on distance between positive ideal solution and negative ideal solution. The main...