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...

This paper deals with the simplest fuzzy PID controllers which employ two fuzzy sets for each of the three input variables and four fuzzy sets for the output variable. Mathematical model for a fuzzy PID controller is derived by using asymmetric Γ-function type and L-function type membership functions for each input, asymmetric trapezoidal membership functions for output, algebraic product trian...

Given a function f ∈ C[0, 1] and some q ∈ (0, 1), we look at the approximation for the Hadamard finite-part integral = ∫ 1 0 x−q−1f(x)dx based on a piecewise linear interpolant for f at n equispaced nodes (i.e., the product trapezoidal rule). The main purpose of this paper is to give sufficient conditions for the sequence of approximations to converge against the correct value of the integral i...

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...

Applications of three-dimensional Galerkin boundary element methods require the numerical evaluation of many four-dimensional integrals. In this paper we explore the possibility of using extrapolation quadrature. To do so, one needs appropriate error functional expansions. The treatment here is limited to integration over a region T1×T2, where T1 and T2 are planar triangular elements in a hangi...

We investigate the I/O-complexity of computing the trapezoidal decomposition deened by a set of N line segments in the plane. We present a randomized algorithm which solves optimally this problem requiring O(N B log M=B N B + K B) expected I/O operations, where K is the number of pairwise intersections, M is the size of available internal memory and B is the size of the block transfer. The prop...

A new method is proposed for the numerical solution of linear mixed Volterra-Fredholm integral equations in one space variable. The proposed numerical algorithm combines the trapezoidal rule, for the integration in time, with piecewise polynomial approximation, for the space discretization. We extend the method to nonlinear mixed Volterra-Fredholm integral equations. Finally, the method is test...

In previous studies, it is pointed out that in several situations it is better to use interval-valued fuzzy numbers instead of triangular or trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. But till now, there is no method that deals with the sensitivity analysis of such linear programming problems in which all the parameters are represented by interval-valued fuzzy numbers. In this paper, a new method is proposed f...

We propose a generalization of trapezoidal fuzzy numbers based on modal interval theory, which we name “modal interval trapezoidal fuzzy numbers”. In this generalization, we accept that the alpha cuts associated with a trapezoidal fuzzy number can be modal intervals, also allowing that two interval modalities can be associated with a trapezoidal fuzzy number. In this context, it is difficult to...