This paper proposes the procedure to find out the total average cost in terms of crisp values for /M/1/BD/MV with fuzzy parameters. In which arrival rate, service rate, batch size, setup, vacation, breakdown, repair rates, and the start up ,build up, holding, setup, dormant, breakdown costs and cost for busy and vacation periods are all considered as trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. As ranking techni...

In most of the commonly used approaches, the ranking of generalized fuzzy numbers is calculated based on the only one criterion i.e., rank criteria. However, there are some weaknesses associated with this criterion. In this paper, we discuss the insufficiency of considering only rank for the ordering of generalized fuzzy numbers. Some shortcomings in existing ranking methods have been pointed o...

The new concept of a Z – number has been recently introduced in decision making analysis. This concept is capable of effectively dealing with uncertainty in information about a decision. As this concept is relatively new in fuzzy sets, its underlying theoretical aspects have not been established yet. In this paper, a multi-layer methodology for ranking Z – numbers is proposed for the first time...

E-alliance is the union of e-commerce and its success and efficiency is related to comprehensive quality of e-commerce. Thus, ranking e-commerce websites in e-alliance is of importance, which is a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. This paper proposes an evaluation model based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP), fuzzy sets and technique for order performance by similarity to ideal ...

Assignment problem (AP) is a well known topic and is used very often in solving problems of engineering and management science. In this problem aij denotes the cost for assigning the jth job to the ith person. The cost is usually deterministic in nature. In this paper ãij has been considered to be trapezoidal and triangular numbers denoted by ãij which are more realistic and general in nature. ...

Abstract. The fuzzy set theory has been applied in many fields such as management, engineering and almost in every business enterprise as well as day to day activities. In this paper fully fuzzy linear programming problems with hexagonal fuzzy numbers were discussed. A new approach for solving fully fuzzy linear programming problems (FFLPP) is proposed, based upon the new Ranking function, whic...

In this study an academician selection system has been developed for universities using fuzzy weighting and fuzzy ranking. In the system, effects of many criteria and views of many experts are evaluated for selection. Number of criteria, number of linguistic variables of criteria, names of linguistic variables, membership functions of linguistic variables, number of experts and alternatives can...

Although simple additive weighting method (SAW) is the most popular approach for classical multiple attribute decision making (MADM), it is not practical any more if information is fuzzy. The existing methods of Fuzzy Simple Additive Weighting method (FSAW) apply defuzzification which distorts fuzzy numbers. Furthermore, most of the methods usually require lengthy and laborious manipulations. I...

Liaiig presented a fuzzy multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) method based on the concepts of ideal and anti-ideal points. Despite its merits, Liang method has the following limitations: ( i ) the objective criteria are converted into dimensionless indices and the subjective criteria are not converted, which may prevent compatibility for these criteria, (ii) the formulas for converting obje...