Abstract Transportation problem (TP) is a popular branch of Linear Programming Problem in the field engineering. Over years, attempts have been made finding improved approaches to solve TPs. Recently, Quddoos et al. (Int J Comput Sci Eng (IJCSE) 4(7): 1271–1274, 2012), an efficient approach, namely ASM, proposed for solving crisp However, it found that ASM fails provide better optimal solution ...