vendor selection is dominantly considered to be a multi attribute decision making (madm) problem, since the decision maker needs to evaluate suppliers simultaneously in different and even contrastive evaluation criteria. one shortcoming of madm methods is that they only compare alternatives with each other, and there is no comparison with the requirements of the buying company. a very efficient...

The existing Data Envelopment Analysis models for evaluating the relative eciency of a set of decision making units by using various inputs to produce various outputs are limited to crisp data in crisp production possibility set. In this paper, rst of all the production possibility set is extended to the fuzzy production possibility set by extension principle in constant return to scale, and th...

Trevithick, John R. (University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison), and Robert L. Metzenberg. Molecular sieving by Neurospora cell walls during secretion of invertase isozymes. J. Bacteriol. 92: 1010-1015. 1966.-The secretion of invertase by young mycelia of Neurospora was studied. The process of secretion was found to be dependent upon growth. The results indicate that fractionation of ligh...

This paper aims to incorporate intelligent mechanisms based on Soft Computing in Geographical Information Systems (GIS). The proposal here is to present a spatio-temporal prediction method of forestry evolution for a sequence of binary images by means of fuzzy inference systems (FIS), genetic algorithm (GA) and genetic programming (GP). The main inference is based on a fuzzy system which proces...

The cooperative games with fuzzy coalitions in which some players act in a coalition only with a fraction of their total “power” (endeavor, investments, material, etc.) or in which they can distribute their “power” in more coalitions, are connected with some formal or interpretational problems. Some of these problems can be avoided if we interpret each fuzzy coalition as a fuzzy class of crisp ...

Since the world is full of indeterminacy, the neutrosophics found their place into contemporary research. The fundamental concepts of neutrosophic set, introduced by Smarandache in [30, 31, 32] and Salama et al. in [4-29]. In Geographical information systems (GIS) there is a need to model spatial regions with indeterminate boundary and under indeterminacy. In this paper the structure of some cl...

This paper presents a novel type-2 Fuzzy logic System to define the Shape of a facial component with the crisp output. The Fuzzy model, designed in this paper, takes crisp value of width and height of a facial component and produces the crisp value of Shape for different facial components. The Fuzzy model is designed using Matlab 6.5 and Visual Basic 6.0 and tested with the facial components ex...

We describe the use of weighted linked pyramids for soft region segmentation of colour images. In many digital images definitive region boundaries can not be determined, casting doubt on the reasonableness of a conventional crisp segmentation. We propose that soft segmentation gives a more natural region segmentation of digital images than conventional crisp segmentation. Weighted linked pyrami...

AX B In the paper, a class of fuzzy matrix equations    B where A is an m × n crisp matrix and is an m × p arbitrary LR fuzzy numbers matrix, is investigated. We convert the fuzzy matrix equation into two crisp matrix equations. Then the fuzzy approximate solution of the fuzzy matrix equation is obtained by solving two crisp matrix equations. The existence condition of the strong LR fuzzy s...

Corporate and organizational performance assessment is an important activity for both the managers other stakeholders, as it provides them with asset to evaluate their own strengths weaknesses in relation competition, well guidelines selecting appropriate measures address existing problems. The issue of criteria selection has been overcome through literature review weights handled by applying g...