Ranking of fuzzy numbers play an important role in decision making, optimization, forecasting etc. Fuzzy numbers must be ranked before an action is taken by a decision maker. In this paper, with the help of several counter examples it is proved that ranking method proposed by Chen and Chen (Expert Systems with Applications 36 (2009) 6833-6842) is incorrect. The main aim of this paper is to prop...

In non-binary constraint satisfaction problems, the study of local consistencies that only prune values from domains has so far been largely limited to generalized arc consistency or weaker local consistency properties. This is in contrast with binary constraints where numerous such domain filtering consistencies have been proposed. In this paper we present a detailed theoretical, algorithmic a...

Abstract. In this paper, a new procedure for project scheduling called 'fuzzy cash flow weight' and 'fuzzy discounted cash flow weight' is studied with the aid of generalized trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. A new ranking procedure namely 'SD of PILOT' (Shortest Distance of the Point of Intersection of Legs of Trapezium) is proposed to find out the output of the above said notion. Relevant arithmetic...

With respect to multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems in which the attribute weights and attribute values take the form of the generalized interval-valued trapezoidal fuzzy numbers, a new group decision making analysis method is proposed. Firstly, some operational laws, the distance between two generalized interval-valued trapezoidal fuzzy numbers, and transformation from th...

the railway transportation planning under the fuzzy environment is investigated in this paper. as a main result, a new modeling method, called minimum risk chance-constrained model, is presented based on the credibility measure. for the convenience ofs olving the mathematical model, the crisp equivalents ofc hance functions are analyzed under the condition that the involved fuzzy parameter...

This paper describes a fault tree technique based on generalized fuzzy numbers to a possibility distribution of reliability indices for power systems. Due to uncertainty in the collected data, all the failure probabilities are represented by generalized trapezoidal fuzzy number. In this paper, the fault-tree incorporated with the generalized trapezoidal fuzzy number and minimal cut sets approac...

We propose a new approach to assigning distance between fuzzy numbers. A pseudo-metric on the set of fuzzy numbers and a metric on the set of trapezoidal fuzzy numbers are described. The regular reducing functions and the Hausdorff metric are used to define the metric. Using this metric, we can approximate an arbitrary generalized left right fuzzy number with a trapezoidal one. Finally, powers ...

Induction of decision rules within the dominance-based rough set approach to the multiple-criteria sorting decision problem is discussed in this paper. We introduce an algorithm called DOMLEM that induces a minimal set of generalized decision rules consistent with the dominance principle. An extension of this algorithm for a variable consistency model of dominance based rough set approach is al...