Linear programming problems with trapezoidal fuzzy variables (FVLP) have recently attracted some interest. Some methods have been developed for solving these problems by introducing and solving certain auxiliary problems. Here, we apply a linear ranking function to order trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. Then, we establish the dual problem of the linear programming problem with trapezoidal fuzzy varia...

Generalized arc consistency (GAC) is the most widely used local consistency in constraint programming. Several GAC algorithms for specific constraints, as well as generic algorithms that can be used on any constraint, have been proposed in the literature. Stronger local consistencies than GAC have also been studied but algorithms for such consistencies are generally considered too expensive. In...

This study presents the numerical simulation of three-dimensional incompressible steady and laminar fluid flow and conjugate heat transfer of a trapezoidal microchannel heat sink using water as a cooling fluid in a silicon substrate. Navier-Stokes equations with conjugate energy equation are discretized by finite-volume method. We perform numerical computations for a range of 50 Re 600, 0.05W ...

We develop a method to carry out MAP estimation for a class of Bayesian regression models in which coefficients are assigned with Gaussian-based spike and slab priors. The objective function in the corresponding optimization problem has a Lagrangian form in that regression coefficients are regularized by a mixture of squared l2 and l0 norms. A tight approximation to the l0 norm using majorizati...

This paper presents a method of using the so-called „bacterial algorithm” [4, 5] for extracting the fuzzy rule base from a training set. The class of membership functions is restricted to trapezoidal, as it is general enough and widely used. The pseudobacterial genetic algorithm (PBGA) is show. The PBGA optimises the trapezoidal membership functions in the rules by the bacterial mutation operat...

In this paper we propose a distributed, replicated block device for The Grid based on the the replication algorithm of Y. Amir[1]. The end goal is to support application-specified semantics, both wrt. replication strategy and the consistency model used for reads and writes. We list the proposed features of the Grid Block Device and discuss various methods of implementation.

In this paper we consider a global optimization approach for solving fuzzy fractional posynomial geometric programming problems. The problem of concern involves positive trapezoidal fuzzy numbers in the objective function. For obtaining an optimal solution, Dinkelbach’s algorithm which achieves the optimal solution of the optimization problem by means of solving a sequence of subproblems ...

There are many different replica control techniques, used in different research communities. To understand when one replica management algorithm can be replaced by another, we need to describe more abstractly the consistency model, which captures the set of properties that an algorithm provides, and on which the clients rely (whether the clients are people or other programs). In this chapter we...