Supply chain management; Fuzzy clustering; Interval type-2 fuzzy hybrid system; Demand forecasting; Ordering policy; Bullwhip effect. Abstract The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and reduce the bullwhip effect in fuzzy environments by means of type-2 fuzzymethodology. In order to reduce the bullwhip effect in a supply chain, we propose a newmethod for demand forecasting. First, the demand ...

The type-2 fuzzy sets was introduced by L. Zadeh as an extension of ordinary fuzzy sets. So the concept of type-2 fuzzy sets is also extended from type-1 fuzzy sets. If A is a type-1 fuzzy set and membership grade of x ∈ X in A is μA(x), which is a crisp number in [0, 1]. A type-2 fuzzy set in X is Ã, and the membership grade of x ∈ X in à is μÃ(x), which is a type-1 fuzzy set in [0, 1]. The el...

There are a growing number of aerospace applications demonstrating the effectiveness of emulating human decision making using fuzzy logic. In this effort, a previously created MATLAB simulation of the classic arcade game PONG is utilized in which a fuzzy logic system that uses real-time fuzzy reasoning and awareness to represent a two-player team is able to play against various opponents. The o...

A design methodology of interval type-2 fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm-based fuzzy inference systems (IT2FCMFIS) is introduced in this paper. An interval type-2 fuzzy c-means (IT2FCM) clustering algorithm is developed to generate the fuzzy rules in the form of the scatter partition of input space. And the individual partitioned spaces describe the fuzzy rules equal to the number of clusters...

about to represent. Once the membership function has been established (estimated or defined), the concept is described very precisely as the membership values are exact numerical quantities. This seems to raise a certain dilemma of excessive precision in describing imprecise phenomena. In fact, this concern has already sparked a lot of debates starting from the very inception of fuzzy sets.” Co...

fuzzy measures are suitable in analyzing human subjective evaluation processes. several different strategies have been proposed for distance of fuzzy numbers. the distances introduced for fuzzy numbers can be categorized in two groups:1. the crisp distances which explain crisp values for the distance between two fuzzy numbers.2. the fuzzy distance which introduce a fuzzy distance for normal fuz...

This study introduces a mixed 2 fuzzy output feedback control design method for nonlinear systems with guaranteed control performance. First, the Takagi and Sugeno fuzzy model is employed to approximate a nonlinear system. Next, based on the fuzzy model, a fuzzy observer-based mixed 2 controller is developed to achieve the suboptimal 2 control performance with a desired disturbance rejection co...

1. UNCERTAINTY: ONE MUST FIGHT, BUT ONE CAN’T WIN 9 1.1. To recognize a situation 9 1.2 Predicting tomorrow 11 1.3 An expert and his cognitive activity 12 1.4 Statistics and quasi-statistics 13 2. FUZZY SETS COME TO THE AID 14 2.1 The Carrier 14 2.2 Fuzzy set 15 2.3 The Function of Belonging 15 2.4 The Linguistic Variable 15 2.5 Operations on fuzzy sub-sets 16 2.6 Fuzzy numbers and operations o...

Traditional [0, 1]-based fuzzy sets were originally invented to describe expert knowledge expressed in terms of imprecise (“fuzzy”) words from natural language. To make this description more adequate, several generalizations of the traditional [0, 1]-based fuzzy sets have been proposed, among them type-2 fuzzy sets and Z-numbers. The main objective of this paper is to study the relation between...