The purpose of this paper is to create an interval estimation of the fuzzy system reliability for the repairable multistate series-parallel system (RMSS). Two-sided fuzzy confidence interval for the fuzzy system reliability is constructed. The performance of fuzzy confidence interval is considered based on the coverage probability and the expected length. In order to obtain the fuzzy system rel...

—Experts are often not 100% con dent in their statements. In traditional fuzzy logic, the expert's degree of con dence in each of his or her statements is described by a number from the interval [0, 1]. However, due to similar uncertainty, an expert often cannot describe his or her degree by a single number. It is therefore reasonable to describe this degree by, e.g., a set of numbers. In this ...

In this paper, we firstly invoke gradual Hausdorff metric to define a new additive fuzzy-valued measure on the ordinary measurable space. Then, from the view of a fuzzy number as a crisp interval of gradual numbers, we show that the new fuzzy-valued measure can be characterized by two gradual number-valued measures. Finally, we investigate some of its properties and structural characterizations.

We examine a linear programming problem formulation in which the constraint coefficients are not precisely given in the work. We investigate the possibility of applying GAs to solve this kind of fuzzy linear programming problem without defining membership functions for fuzzy numbers, using the extension principle, interval arithmetic, and α-cut operations for fuzzy computations, and using a pen...

in this paper, we consider the production possibility set with n production units such that the following four principles that governs: inclusion observations, conceivability, immensity and convexity. our goal is to estimate the output of a same and new production unit with existing production possibility and amount of input is specified. so, initially we find the interval changes of each input...

Whether a rule-based interval type-2 fuzzy system has the ability to approximate any continuous multivariate function arbitrarily well is a fundamentally important question for fuzzy control and modeling. The only approximation results available are the preliminary ones that we previously obtained. They state that two general classes of the interval T2 fuzzy systems, one for the Mamdani type an...

After the introduction of fuzzy set by Zadeh in 1965 [1], there have been a number of generalizations of this fundamental concept. In 1967, Goguen [2] proposed the concept of L-fuzzy set. The idea of interval valued fuzzy set is given by Zadeh in 1975 [3]. Type 2 fuzzy sets were poposed by Zadeh in [4]. Attanasove introduced intuitionistic fuzzy sets in 1986 [5]. Interval valued intuitionistic ...

many ranking methods have been proposed so far. however, there is yet no method that can always give a satisfactory solution to every situation; some are counterintuitive, not discriminating; some use only the local information of fuzzy values; some produce different ranking for the same situation. for overcoming the above problems, we propose a new method for ranking fuzzy quantities based on ...