Market demand of the  perishable bakery  products are volatile. Hence, demand of such items are random variable. The most appealing demand distribution of such items is lognormal demand distribution. Using historical data, the parameters of lognormal distribution are obtained. But, there is a problem of overestimation or underestimation of the parameters. Fuzzy triangular numbers are used to ov...

It is commonly observed that the demand rates of many consumer goods are auto correlated and are dependent on the price and inventory amount. It is believed that the distribution of demand is independent from time to time. But in real life the demand of goods is auto-correlated. The effects of dependency and autocorrelated demand are studied under a periodic review model. An adaptive order-up-t...

This paper investigates the single period inventory Newsboy problem in a general uncertain environment. Here it is assumed that the uncertainty appears in the market demand of the product. Uncertain demand is used to describe a subjective estimate (not estimated by random/fuzzy demand), linguistically expressed by ‘‘demand is about n’’. Using identification functions of the uncertain variable w...

Characterization and evaluation of a biological submerged filter was carried out on a full-scale pilot plant performing removal of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and total nitrogen (TN) from pre-treated urban wastewater. The average influent values of BOD5, chemical oxygen demand (COD) and TN were 370, 1,015 and 60 mg/L, respectively. The pilot plant produced good discharge quality during stea...

Various classical techniques such as linear regression, nearest neighbor have been used in developing predictive models in the past. But the methodologies developed using fuzzy time series includes a wide array of work that requires special attention. The time series analysis has been of great importance to engineering and economy problems. In this paper, we present a brief summary of the vario...

Demand for high software reliability requires rigorous testing followed by requirement of robust modeling techniques for software quality prediction. On one side, firms have to steadily manage the reliability by testing it vigorously, the optimal release time determination is their biggest concern. In past many models have been developed and much research has been devoted towards assessment of ...

A purchasing inventory model with shortages where carrying cost, shortage cost, setup cost and demand quantity are considered as fuzzy numbers. The fuzzy parameters are transformed into corresponding interval numbers and then the interval objective function has been transformed into a classical multi-objective economic ordering quantity (EOQ) problem. To minimize the interval objective function...

Generally, it is very difficult to determine the medicine supply in hospital under uncertain environment. Here, the medical supply decision problem in uncertain environment is modeled as a fuzzy multi-objective linear programming model. First, the medicine supply in hospital management system is analyzed and the uncertainties in medicine supply are modeled as fuzzy numbers. Second, a fuzzy medi...

In this paper, we present a neuro-fuzzy model for intelligent reactive power control and efficient utilization of power. The proposed neuro-fuzzy model will assist the conventional power control systems with added intelligence. For on-line control, voltage and current are fed into the network after preprocessing and standardization. The model was trained with a 24-hour load demand pattern and p...

The electricity market has been significantly changing in the last decade. The deployment of smart meters is enabling the logging of huge amounts of data relating to the operations of utilities with the potential of being translated into valuable knowledge on the behaviour of consumers. This work proposes a methodology for predicting the typical daily load profile of electricity usage based on ...