The weight is one of the most useful tools to measure the attribute importance when individuals make a decision or evaluate the alternatives. Among the methods which measure the weight, fuzzy measures is are subjective scales for the degrees of fuzziness and widely used to determine the degrees of subjective importance of evaluation items in numerous studies for the time being. The purpose of t...

The problem of the nearest approximation of fuzzy numbers by piecewise linear 1-knot fuzzy numbers is discussed. By using 1-knot fuzzy numbers one may obtain approximations which are simple enough and flexible to reconstruct the input fuzzy concepts under study. They might be also perceived as a generalization of the trapezoidal approximations. Moreover, these approximations possess some desira...

The article is devoted to the problem of multi-criteria decision making. As application used equipment selection problem. analysis existing methods for solving this given. a method fuzzy TOPSIS (The Technique Order Preference by Similarity Ideal Solution) proposed. This based on ideal solution approach. issues practical implementation are discussed in details. results test at all stages present...

In this paper, we first use a fuzzy preference relation with a membership function representing preference degree forcomparing two interval-valued fuzzy numbers and then utilize a relative preference relation improved from the fuzzypreference relation to rank a set of interval-valued fuzzy numbers. Since the fuzzy preference relation is a total orderingrelation that satisfies reciprocal and tra...

The basic transportation problem was originally developed by Hitchcock. In the literature several methods are proposed for solving Fuzzy transportation problem. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm called Fuzzy Russell’s method for the initial basic feasible solution to a Fuzzy transportation problem. To examine the proposed method a numerical example is solved. Fuzzy numbers may be normal...

Fuzzy Linear Programming models are quite frequent in practice. The dynamic nature of the real problems often requires reoptimize from the optimal solutions found, what may mean a significant consumption of time and funds. In this paper, in order to efficiently solve this problem, first the optimality conditions and the duality results for fully fuzzy linear programming problems (all parameters...

project selection is considered as an important problem in project management. it is multi-criteria in nature and is based on various quantitative and qualitative factors. the main purpose of this paper is to present a new rank-based method for project selection in outranking relation. according to this approach, decision alternatives were clustered in the concordance matrix and the discordance...

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...