The higher education system in India is changing at an unprecedented rate. Having an effective system for evaluating the quality is an essential key to realizing the goals of education. The adoption of the fuzzy formalism is a possible solution to the standardization in the domain of quality of education. In this paper, an analytical tool has been developed to find the important attributes whic...

Parametric representation of fuzzy numbers (PFN) with derived methods for performing fuzzy arithmetic proves to have better accuracy and similar computational speed to using triangular fuzzy numbers (TFN). These fuzzy numbers (PFN) can be considered a special case of triangular fuzzy numbers (TFN) as they have three additional parameters and their methods for arithmetic operations are further s...

An inventory model is formulated with type-2 fuzzy parameters under trade credit policy and solved by using Generalized Hukuhara derivative approach. Representing demand parameter of each expert's opinion is a membership function of type-1 and thus, this membership function again becomes fuzzy. The final opinion of all experts is expressed by a type-2 fuzzy variable. For this present problem, t...

Cost and operation of inventory depends a great deal on what happens to demand when the system is out of stock. In real inventory systems, it is more reasonable to assume that part of the excess demand is backordered and the rest is lost. However, the amount of backorders (or lost sales) often incurs disturbance due to various uncertainties. To incorporate this reality, this article attempts to...

The basic transportation problem was originally developed by Hitchcock. In the literature several methods are proposed for solving Fuzzy transportation problem. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm called Fuzzy Russell’s method for the initial basic feasible solution to a Fuzzy transportation problem. To examine the proposed method a numerical example is solved. Fuzzy numbers may be normal...

In our fuzzy neural networks fuzzy weights and fuzzy operations are used for training crisp and fuzzy data. Theoretical studies of fuzzy networks where triangular fuzzy numbers are used, show that the output behaviour of these networks can be estimated for arbitrary input data. To make use of these properties we present two learning algorithms for our networks. We implemented and tested them an...

Defuzzification is the process of converting a fuzzy quantity to precise quantity, just as fuzzification is the conversion of a precise quantity to a fuzzy quantity. Various types of defuzzification methods, are available for conversion of fuzzy to non-fuzzy. In this paper, defuzzification functions in intuitionistic fuzzy environment such as triangular, trapezoidal, L-trapezoidal, R-trapezoida...