In this paper, a method for deriving a group priority vector in the Fuzzy Analytic Network Process (FANP) is proposed. By introducing importance weights of multiple decision makers (DMs) based on their experiences, the Fuzzy Preferences Programming Method (FPP) is extended to a fuzzy group prioritization problem in the FANP. Additionally, fuzzy pair-wise comparison judgments are presented rathe...

Most existing fuzzy clustering approaches group objects in a dataset based on either a feature-vector representation of each object, or pairwise relationship representation between each pair of objects. However, when both forms of data representations from different descriptions are available for a given dataset, we believe that a dual and cooperative analysis of feature-vectors (vector data) a...

in this paper, the concept of k-regular fuzzy matrix as a general- ization of regular matrix is introduced and some basic properties of a k-regular fuzzy matrix are derived. this leads to the characterization of a matrix for which the regularity index and the index are identical. further the relation between regular, k-regular and regularity of powers of fuzzy matrices are dis- cussed.

Crisp comparison matrices produce crisp weight estimates. It is logical for an interval or fuzzy comparison matrix to give an interval or fuzzy weight estimate. In this paper, an eigenvector method (EM) is proposed to generate interval or fuzzy weight estimate from an interval or fuzzy comparison matrix, which differs from Csutora and Buckley’s LambdaMax method in several aspects. First, the pr...

Many structural comparison methods of proteins have been proposed [2,3,4,5]. Among them, distance matrices, approximation of structure, and vector representation are the most commonly used. The distance matrices, also called distance plots or distance maps, contain all the pair-wise distances between alpha-carbon atoms, i.e. Cα atoms of each residue [3]. A matrix is a twodimensional (2D) repres...

Globalization of business and the competitiveness of manufacturing have motivated companies to improve the facilities to respond to the market requirements. Machine tool selection plays a major role in the improvement of productivity, flexibility in uncertain manufacturing. The objective of this study is to present the simple approach for machine tool selection based on the integration of consi...

Nowadays, improving and upgrading quality of products and services is one the main reason for outgoing the competitors and penetration into markets. This article is about the deficiency of the traditional FMEA, and introduces a new method based on estimated costs fuzzy FMEA and utility values. In the proposed method a new fuzzy RPN is defined. A pair wise comparison among Severity, Occurrence a...

Interval Pairwise Comparison Matrices have been widely used to account for uncertain statements concerning the preferences of decision makers. Several approaches have been proposed in the literature, such as multiplicative and fuzzy interval matrices. In this paper, we propose a general unified approach to Interval Pairwise Comparison Matrices, based on Abelian linearly ordered groups. In this ...