Abstract Classical sets are used commonly to consider reliability. Because of the uncertainty in data (which considered present paper) classical fail describe reliability accurately. Uncertainty leads fluctuation actual situation structure. Fuzzy logic method attempts test system with benefit membership function. Within this context, specific problems reasoning-based approaches studied, explore...

In the fuzzy arithmetic, the definitions of addition and multiplication of fuzzy numbers are based on Zadeh’s extension principle. From theoretical and practical points of view, this multiplication of fuzzy numbers owns several unnatural properties. Recently, to avoid this shortcoming, a new multiplicative operation of product type is introduced, the so-called cross-product of fuzzy numbers. Th...

Ranking of fuzzy numbers play an important role in decision making, optimization and 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 (3): 6833) is incorrect. The main aim of this paper is to propose...

different methods have been proposed for finding the non-negative solution of fully fuzzy linear system (ffls) i.e. fuzzy linear system with fuzzy coefficients involving fuzzy variables. to the best of our knowledge, there is no method in the literature for finding the non-negative solution of a ffls without any restriction on the coefficient matrix. in this paper a new computational method is ...

In general fuzzy linear regression, the coefficients of the fuzzy regression model are symmetric triangular fuzzy numbers, while we try to replace them by more general ones, which are asymmetric trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. Possibility of equality between two asymmetric trapezoidal fuzzy numbers is explained by possibility distribution. Two different models are presented in this paper. Furthermor...

In this paper I will introduce the trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IF numbers) and will prove some operations for them. Also I am going to propose a new ordering method for IF numbers in which I will consider two characteristic values of membership and non-membership functions for an IF number. These values are defined by the integral of the inverse fuzzy membership and non-membership...

Ranking of fuzzy numbers plays a very important role in linguistic decision making and some other fuzzy application systems. Several strategies have been proposed for ranking of fuzzy numbers. Each of these techniques has been shown to produce nonintuitive results in certain cases. In this paper, some new approaches for ranking of trapezoidal fuzzy numbers are introduced. Keywords— Magnitude of...

Many authors analyzed triangular and trapezoidal approximation of fuzzy numbers. But, to best of our knowledge, there is no method for symmetric trapezoidal fuzzy number approximation of fuzzy numbers. So, in this paper, we try to convert any fuzzy number into symmetric trapezoidal fuzzy number by using metric distance. This approximation helps us to avoid the computational complexity in the pr...

Kumar et al. (A new approach for solving fuzzy maximal flow problems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 5908 (2009) 278-286) proposed a new algorithm to find the fuzzy maximal flow between source and sink by representing the flow as normal triangular fuzzy numbers. Chen (Operations on fuzzy numbers with function principal, Tamkang Journal of Management Scienc...