As a hot topic in supply chain management, fuzzy method has been widely used in logistics center location selection to improve the reliability and suitability of the logistics center location selection with respect to the impacts of both qualitative and quantitative factors. However, it does not consider the consistency and the historical assessments accuracy of experts in predecisions. So this...

In practice, some special LR fuzzy numbers, like the triangular fuzzy number, the Gaussian fuzzy number and the Cauchy fuzzy number, are widely used in many areas to deal with various vague information. With regard to these special LR fuzzy numbers, called regular LR fuzzy numbers in this paper, an operational law is proposed for fuzzy arithmetic, providing a novel approach to analytically and ...

At Southampton University, we introduced Standard ML into the first year programming course as a vehicle both for teaching programming and for introducing principles of software engineering. The paper first outlines the background of the students and the depth of programming experience prior to joining the course. The class was divided almost equally into those with experience equivalent to A l...

Power quality management based environmental optimal power flow (OPF) is a vital re‐ search area for power system operation and control, this type of problem is complex with non-linear constraints where many conflicting objectives are considered like fuel cost, gaz emission, real power loss, voltage deviation, and voltage stability[1-2]. The solution of this multi objective problem becomes more...

This paper addresses a new version of the exible ow line prob- lem, i.e., the budget constrained one, in order to determine the required num- ber of processors at each station along with the selection of the most eco- nomical process routes for products. Since a number of parameters, such as due dates, the amount of available budgets and the cost of opting particular routes, are imprecise (fuzz...

LR fuzzy numbers are quite common in real world applications involving the triangular fuzzy number, the Gaussian fuzzy number, and the Cauchy fuzzy number as special cases. In this paper, we first prove that a fuzzy number is an LR fuzzy number if and only if its credibility distribution is strictly increasing. After that, based on credibility measure, an operational law on independent LR fuzzy...

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...

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...

This paper suggests  a novel approach for ranking the most applicable fuzzy numbers, i.e.  $LR$-fuzzy numbers. Applying the  $alpha$-optimistic values of a fuzzy number, a preference criterion is proposed for ranking fuzzy numbers using the Credibility index. The main properties of the proposed  preference criterion  are also studied.  Moreover, the proposed method is   applied for ranking fuzz...

Credibility measure was created by Baoding Liu [5, 7] and his Chinese co workers [4] around 2004. Then, Baoding Liu designed a grand view of fuzzy process, hybrid process and uncertain process [6]. In response to his work, Dai [1] sketched how to create standard normal fuzzy process under credibility measure, which he called standard Liu process. Independently Kageyama and Iwamura [3] construct...