In economic order quantity models without backordering, both the stock cost of each unit quantity and the order cost of each cycle are characterized as independent fuzzy variables rather than fuzzy numbers as in previous studies. Based on an expected value criterion or a credibility criterion, a fuzzy expected value model and a fuzzy dependent chance programming (DCP) model are constructed. The...

This paper discusses multiproduct aggregate production planning (APP) decision making problems in fuzzy random environments. To maximize the chance of obtaining the profit more than the predetermined profit over the whole planning horizon, a fuzzy random APP model is established, in which the market demand, production cost, subcontracting cost, inventory carrying cost, backorder cost, product c...

It is well known that Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a relative efficiency measurement tool, which uses optimization techniques to automatically calculate the weights assigned to the crisp deterministic multiple inputs and outputs of a set of the Decision Making Units (DMUs) being assessed. However, crisp deterministic data requirement delimits an application to the real world problems wher...

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The classical analysis of realtime systems tries to ensure that the instance of every task finishes before its absolute deadline (strict guarantee). The probabilistic approach tends to estimate the probability that it will happen. The deterministic timed behavior is an important parameter for analyzing the robustness of the system. Most of related works are mainly based on the determinism of ti...

Automatic extraction of collocations from a corpus is a well-known problem in the field of natural language processing. It is typically carried out by employing some kind of a statistical measure that indicates whether or not two words occur together more often than by chance. A fuzzy set theoretic approach for extracting collocations from a text collection is described in this article. This ap...

This paper presents a literature overview of Fuzzy Relational Database Models with emphasis on the role of functional dependencies in logical designing and modeling. The aim is the analysis of recent results in this fi eld. Fuzzy set theory is widely applied for the classical relational database extensions resulting in numerous contributions. This is because fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic are power...

The traditional evaluating methods can not deal with the evaluation problem of innovation sources in service firms with fuzzy information, authors have constructed fuzzy support vector machine based on support vector machine and fuzzy chance constrained programming, and applied this new method to evaluating innovation sources in service firms. In basis of related literature reviewing, authors h...

How did I get to become a cell biologist? Or, more generally, why do things happen the way they do? The answer provided by the philosopher Democritus and later adopted by Jacques Monod is "everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity." While I read Monod's book Chance and Necessity as an undergraduate student, little did I appreciate the accuracy of this citation and...