The coordination of two-echelons supply chain by buyback contract under the imperfect product quality and fuzzy demand environment is investigated in this paper. The mathematical models are built based on credibility theory, and the optimal parameters of buyback contract are obtained. In addition, the influence of the imperfect product rate on the parameters of buyback contract is analyzed. Fin...

There are various types of uncertainty in the real world. This is a motivation to investigate the behavior of uncertain phenomena. Random phenomena is one class of objective uncertain phenomena which has been well studied. Probability theory is an efficient tool to study the behavior of random phenomena. Besides randomness, fuzziness is a basic type of subjective uncertainty initiated by Zadeh....

Handling uncertainty and vagueness in real world becomes a necessity for developing intelligent and efficient systems. Based on the credibility theory, a fuzzy clustering approach that improves the classification accuracy is targeted by this work. This paper introduces a design of an efficient set of fuzzy rules that are inferred by a hybrid model of SOFM (Self Organized Features Maps) and FRAN...

The objective of this paper is to study some new analytical properties of credibility functions. We first discuss the continuity of credibility functions, and establish the sufficient and necessary conditions for the right continuity and left continuity of credibility functions. Furthermore, we study the absolute continuity of credibility functions and obtain some sufficient conditions for the ...

Fuzziness plays an essential role in the real world. Fuzzy set theory has been developed very fast since it was introduced by Zadeh (1965) [1]. A fuzzy set was characterized with its membership function by Zadeh. The term fuzzy variable was fist introduced by Kaufmann (1975) [2], and then appeared in Zadeh (1978) [3] and Nahmias (1978) [4] as a fuzzy set of real numbers. In order to establish t...

Uncertainty inherent in the financial market was usually consid- ered to be random. However, randomness is only one special type of uncer- tainty and appropriate when describing objective information. For describing subjective information it is preferred to assume that uncertainty is fuzzy. This paper defines the expected payoof trading strategies in a fuzzy financial market within the framewor...

The modeling of complex risk situations imposes the existence of multiple ways to represent the risk and compare the risk situations between them. In probabilistic models, risk is described by random variables and risk situations are compared by stochastic dominance. In possibilistic or credibilistic models, risk is represented by fuzzy variables. This paper concerns three indicators of dominan...

Decision making is an important part of human life. A decision can be made by the idea of an individual or a group. Groups are seen as superior to individuals as decision making entities. In fact, groups bring more diverse sets of information, perspectives, and knowledge to make a decision. A type of group decision making is related to multiple criteria and multiple constraint levels linear pro...

in this paper, a maximum likelihood estimation and a minimum entropy estimation for the expected value and variance of normal fuzzy variable are discussed within the framework of credibility theory. as an application, a credibilistic portfolio selection model is proposed, which is an improvement over the traditional models as it only needs the predicted values on the security returns instead of...

In this paper, a maximum likelihood estimation and a minimum entropy estimation for the expected value and variance of normal fuzzy variable are discussed within the framework of credibility theory. As an application, a credibilistic portfolio selection model is proposed, which is an improvement over the traditional models as it only needs the predicted values on the security returns instead of...