The expected value and variance of a fuzzy variable have been well studied in the literature, and they provide important characterizations of the possibility distribution for the fuzzy variable. In this paper, we seek a similar characterization of the joint possibility distribution for a pair of fuzzy variables. In view of the success of introducing the expected value and variance as fuzzy inte...

The paper concerns influences of global warming on a climate change in Georgia and health of the population. In particular, one important parameter of a human thermal comfort a heat index(that represents a combination of the air temperature and relative humidity) has been investigated. The investigation was carried out on the base of real data collected in the Ministry of Preservation of the En...

The applicability of Net Present Value (NPV) in an investment project is becoming more and more popular in the field of engineering economics. The classical NPV methodology involves only the precise and accurate data of the investment project. In the present communication, we give a new mathematical model for NPV which uses the concept of intuitionistic fuzzy set theory. The proposed model is b...

coalitional game deals with situations that involve cooperations among players, and there are different solution concepts such as the core,the shapley value and the kernel. in many situations, there is no way to predict the payoff functions except for the expert experiencesand subjective intuitions, which leads to the coalitional game with fuzzy payoffs. within the framework of credibility theo...

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...

during recent years, examining the performance of contrarian strategies has been taken into consideration by scholars and stock market's activists, though several evidences are available based on profitability of this type of strategies, much of them have been referred to american and european's stock markets. in current study, the act of these strategies will be examined in tehran&ap...

Clustering algorithms have been utilized in a wide variety of application areas. One of these algorithms is the Fuzzy C-Means algorithm (FCM). One of the problems with these algorithms is the time needed to converge. In this paper, a Fast Fuzzy C-Means algorithm (FFCM) is proposed based on experimentations, for improving fuzzy clustering. The algorithm is based on decreasing the number of dista...

Process capability indices provide numerical measures on whether a process conforms to the defined manufacturing capability prerequisite. These have been successfully applied by companies to compete with and to lead high-profit markets by evaluating the quality and productivity performance. The loss-based process capability index Cpm, sometimes called the Taguchi index, was proposed to measure ...

In [14], we have presented a fuzzy forward reasoning methodology for rule-based systems using the functional representation of rules (fuzzy implications). In this paper, we extend methodology for selecting relevant fuzzy implications from [14] in backward reasoning. The proposed methodology takes full advantage of the functional representation of fuzzy implications and the algebraic properties ...

An adaptive watermarking method based on the human visual system model and the fuzzy inference system in wavelet domain is proposed. Fuzzy logic is used for data fusion and builds a HVS model for spatial masking in wavelet domain. Modeling spatial masking is a complicated task and there is no single theoretical formulation to precisely compute the perceptual value for a corresponding wavelet co...