Regression analysis is an area of statistics that deals with the investigation of the dependence of a variable upon one or more variables. Recently, much research has studied fuzzy estimation. There are some approaches existing in the literature for the estimation of the fuzzy regression model. Two of them are frequently used in parameter estimation, one of which is proposed by Tanaka et al [21...

In order to survive in today's competitive world, organizations are looking to increase their efficiency and effectiveness. Therefore, they should focus on inputs that are more important than the rest of the inputs in their success. This paper aimed at ranking 7Ms (Management, Man power, Marketing, Material, Machinery, Methods and Money) and their sub-criteria of production in Iran. By improvin...

This study presents an approximate approach for ranking fuzzy numbers based on the centroid point of a fuzzy number and its area. The total approximate is determined by convex combining of fuzzy number’s relative and its area that based on decision maker’s optimistic perspectives. The proposed approach is simple in terms of computational efforts and is efficient in ranking a large quantity of f...

Fuzzy sets theory might provide the flexibility needed to represent the uncertainty resulting from the lack of knowledge [1-3]. The fuzzy preference relation is a kind of representation of the information about provided by the decision maker [4-6]. It is an important research topic how to choose an optimal alternative or rank alternatives from a finite set of alternatives according to the fuzzy...

Up to now, several approaches have been proposed for ranking of fuzzy numbers using maximizing set and minimizing sets. Often, the reference points are created by real numbers. In this paper, we proposed new reference points so called fuzzy maximizing-minimizing points. To this purpose, we used the center of gravity of fuzzy numbers and their left/right spreads to construct such fuzzy points. M...

in today's competitive world, establishıng a proper system of evaluating firms performance is essential. the purpose of this study is to evaluate the financial performance of pharmaceutical, basic metals and automotive parts companies using a new method. the fuzzy ahp is used for weighting the performance evaluation measures and fuzzy topsis and fuzzy vikor is also used to rank the compani...