In a three stage supply chain composed of one manufacturer, one distributor and one retailer, the supply chain coordination mechanism is studied under a fuzzy demand environment. The market demand is treated as a positive trapezoidal fuzzy number, and the models of centralized decision-making system and spanning revenue sharing (SRS) contract are proposed by the method of the fuzzy set theory. ...

We are concerned with the development of a K−step method for the numerical solution of fuzzy initial value problems. Convergence and stability of the method are also proved in detail. Moreover, a specific method of order 4 is found. The numerical results show that the proposed fourth order method is efficient for solving fuzzy differential equations.

Usage of fuzzy differential equations (FDEs) is a natural way to model dynamical systems under possibilistic uncertainty. We consider second order hybrid fuzzy differentia

Data mining is the process of extracting hidden patterns from huge data. Among the various clustering algorithms, k-means is the one of most widely used clustering technique in data mining. The performance of k-means clustering depends on the initial clusters and might converge to local optimum. K-means does not guarantee the unique clustering because it generates different results with randoml...

Numerous learning tasks involve incomplete or connicting attributes. Most algorithms that automatically nd a set of fuzzy rules are not well suited to tolerate missing values in the input vector, and the usual technique to substitute missing values by their mean or another constant value can be quite harmful. In this paper a technique is proposed to tolerate missing values during the classiicat...

In this paper, we formulate the fuzzy perceptive model for discounted Markov decision processes in which the perception for transition probabilities is described by fuzzy sets. The optimal expected reward, called a fuzzy perceptive value, is characterized and calculated by a new fuzzy relation. As a numerical example, a machine maintenance problem is considered.

In this paper, we study first order linear fuzzy differential equations with fuzzy coefficient and initial value. We use the generalized differentiability concept and apply the exponent matrix to present the general form of their solutions. Finally, one example is given to illustrate our results.

In this paper, a novel hybrid method based on learning algorithmof fuzzy neural network and Newton-Cotesmethods with positive coefficient for the solution of linear Fredholm integro-differential equation of the second kindwith fuzzy initial value is presented. Here neural network isconsidered as a part of large field called neural computing orsoft computing. We propose alearning algorithm from ...

In this research, a numerical method by piecewise approximated method for solving fuzzy differential equations is introduced. In this method, the solution by piecewise fuzzy polynomial is present. The base of this method is using fuzzy Taylor expansion on initial value of fuzzy differential equations. The existence, uniqueness and convergence of the approximate solution are investigated. To sho...

The purpose of this paper is to give a straightforward mathematical treatment of algebras of fuzzy truth values for type-2 fuzzy sets.