Nurse scheduling is a complex scheduling problem and involves generating a schedule for each nurse that consists of shift duties and days off within a short-term planning period. In real world applications, multiple sources of uncertainties are needed to be treated in providing higher quality schedules. This paper presents a seminal research on the application of fuzzy set theory to the nurse s...

This paper proposes a fuzzy goal programming based on Taylor series for solving decentralized bilevel multiobjective fractional programming (DBLMOFP) problem. In the proposed approach, all of the membership functions are associated with the fuzzy goals of each objective at the both levels and also the fractional membership functions are converted to linear functions using the Taylor series appr...

This paper proposes the use of a goal programming model for objective ranking universities. methodology has been successfully used in other areas to analyze performance firms by focusing on two opposite approaches: (a) one favouring those variables that are aligned with central tendency majority measurement performance, and (b) an alternative favours different, singular, or independent variable...

Recently, fuzzy linear programming problems have been considered by many. In the literature of fuzzy linear programming several models are offered and therefore some various methods have been suggested to solve these problems. One of the most important of these problems that recently has been considered; are Fully Fuzzy Linear Programming (FFLP), which all coefficients and variables of the prob...

High amounts of waste paper are disposed of every year in Iran posing the health hazard and environmental damages instead of being recovered. Collection, recovery and proper disposal of waste paper without damaging the environment need to design an efficient closed-loop supply chain network. The main objective of this paper is introducing a bi-objective, multi-echelon, multi-product and single-...

In real-life situations, the project manager must handle multiple conflicting goals and these conflicting goals are normally fuzzy owing to information is incomplete and unavailable. This study develops a two-phase fuzzy goal programming (FGP) method for solving the project management (PM) decision problems with multiple goals in uncertain environments. The original multi-objective linear progr...

multi attribute decision making methods are considered as one of the most useful methods for solving ranking problems. in some decision making problems, while the alternatives for corresponding criteria are compared in a pairwise comparison manner, if the criteria are inherently fuzzy, debates will arise in ranking alternatives due to the closeness of the values of the criteria. in this researc...

This paper presents fuzzy goal programming approach for solving multiobjective quadratic programming problem. The problem deals with a decisionmaking unit with multiple objective functions, which are quadratic in nature and the system constraints are linear functions. In the proposed approach, we first formulate the quadratic membership functions by determining best solution of the objective fu...