Mass customization has been identified as a competitive strategy by an increasing number of companies. Family-based product design has been recognized as an efficient and effective means to realize sufficient product variety to satisfy a range of customer demands in support for mass customization. This paper presents a knowledge decision support approach to product family design evaluation and ...

We introduce the notion of bipolar fuzzy Lie sub-superalgebras (resp. bipolar fuzzy ideals) and present some of their properties. First we investigate the properties of bipolar fuzzy Lie sub-superalgebras and bipolar fuzzy ideals under homomorphisms of Lie superalgebras. Next we study bipolar fuzzy bracket product, solvable bipolar fuzzy ideals and nilpotent bipolar fuzzy ideals of Lie superalg...

Considering convergent product as an important manufacturing technology for digital products, we integrate functions and sub-functions using a comprehensive fuzzy mathematical optimization process. To form the convergent product, a web-based fuzzy network is considered in which a collection of base functions and sub-functions configure the nodes and each arc in the network is to be a link betwe...

a supply chain is composed of a complex sequence of processing stages, ranging from raw materials supplies, parts manufacturing, components and end-products assembling, to the delivery of end products. in the context of supply chain management, supplier selection decision is considered one of the key issues faced by operations and purchasing managers to remain competitive. therefore, requiremen...

In this note we consider the notion of intuitionistic fuzzy (weak) dual hyper K-ideals and obtain related results. Then we classify this notion according to level sets. After that we determine the relationships between intuitionistic fuzzy (weak) dual hyper K-ideals and intuitionistic fuzzy (weak) hyper K-ideals. Finally, we define the notion of the product of two intuitionistic fuzzy (weak) du...

In real world, customers commonly take relevant attributes into consideration for the selection of products and services. Further, the attribute assessment of a product or service is often presented by a linguistic data sequence. To partition these linguistic data sequences of customers’ assessment on a product or service, a proper clustering method is essential and proposed in this paper. In t...

A function-based evaluation approach is proposed for a systematic study of fuzzy proportional-integral-derivative (PID)-like controllers. This approach is applied for deriving process-independent design guidelines from addressing two issues: simplicity and nonlinearity. To examine the simplicity of fuzzy PID controllers, we conclude that direct-action controllers exhibit simpler design properti...

This paper is focused on an introduction of a new software product, which is called FuzzME. This software was developed as a tool for creating fuzzy models of multiple-criteria evaluation and decision making. The type of evaluations employed in the fuzzy models fully corresponds with the paradigm of the fuzzy set theory; the evaluations express the (fuzzy) degrees of fulfillment of correspondin...