We prove that some important properties of convex subsets of vector topological spaces remain valid in the space of fuzzy numbers endowed with the Euclidean distance. We use these results to obtain a characterization of fuzzy number-valued Lipschitz functions. This fact helps us to find the best Lipschitz constant of the trapezoidal approximation operator preserving the value and ambiguity intr...

The degree of similarity or dissimilarity between the objects under study plays an important role. In vector space, especially, the cosine similarity measure is often used in information retrieval, citation analysis, and automatic classification. However, it scarcely deals with trapezoidal fuzzy information and multicriteria decision-making problems. For this purpose, a cosine similarity measur...

There exist some fuzziness and uncertainty in the process of ecological construction. The aim of this paper is to develop a direct and an effective simplified method for obtaining the cost-sharing scheme when some interested parties form a cooperative coalition to improve the ecological environment of Min River together. Firstly, we propose the solution concept of the least square prenucleolus ...

In many real life problems, the parameters used to characterize the uncertainty or vagueness or impreciseness in information are either triangular or trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. But it is not always possible to restrict the membership function to either triangular or trapezoidal form. In this paper, a new form of non-normal fuzzy number named as Heptagonal fuzzy number is introduced and its arit...

Suture interfaces with a triangular wave form commonly found in nature have recently been shown to exhibit exceptional mechanical behavior, where geometric parameters such as amplitude, frequency, and hierarchy can be used to nonlinearly tailor and amplify mechanical properties. In this study, using the principle of complementary virtual work, we formulate a generalized, composite mechanical mo...

The trapezoidal rule for the numerical integration of first-order ordinary differential equations is shown to possess, for a certain type of problem, an undesirable property. The removal of this difficulty is shown to be straightforward, resulting in a modified trapezoidal rule. Whilst this latent difficulty is slight (and probably rare in practice), the fact that the proposed modification invo...

The numerical computation of P{X > x} can be accomplished in a variety of ways. An appealing class of methods may be derived from the contour integral connecting P{X > x} and its Fourier representation. Statisticians have largely focused on deriving saddlepoint approximations for this contour integral. The accuracy of such approximations is generally understood in vague terms only and, perhaps ...

An important step in the automation of electronic design is the assignment of the physical components on the target semiconductor die. The major aim of floorplanning is to distribute the modules of a circuit onto a chip to optimize its area, wire length and timing. As the density of very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits enhance, the need for faster floorplanning algorithms also grows. The...

1 Motivation We want to numerically approximate coefficients in a Fourier series. The first step is to see how the trapezoidal rule applies when numerically computing the integral (2π) −1 2π 0 F (t)dt, where F (t) is a continuous, 2π-periodic function. Applying the trapezoidal rule with the stepsize taken to be h = 2π/n for some integer n ≥ 1 results in (2π) −1 2π 0 F (t)dt ≈ 1 n n−1 j=0 Y j , ...

An important step in the automation of electronic design is the assignment of the physical components on the target semiconductor die. The major aim of floorplanning is to distribute the modules of a circuit onto a chip to optimize its area, wire length and timing. As the density of very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuits enhance, the need for faster floorplanning algorithms also grows. The...