The weight is one of the most useful tools to measure the attribute importance when individuals make a decision or evaluate the alternatives. Among the methods which measure the weight, fuzzy measures is are subjective scales for the degrees of fuzziness and widely used to determine the degrees of subjective importance of evaluation items in numerous studies for the time being. The purpose of t...

In this paper, we present a new method to handle fuzzy multiple attributes group decision-making problems. First, we construct fuzzy importance matrices for decision-makers with respect to attributes and construct fuzzy evaluating matrices for decision-makers with respect to attributes of the alternatives. Then, based on the fuzzy importance matrices and the fuzzy evaluating matrices, we can ge...

We prove a Murnaghan–Nakayama rule for k-Schur functions of Lapointe and Morse. That is, we give an explicit formula for the expansion of the product of a power sum symmetric function and a k-Schur function in terms of k-Schur functions. This is proved using the noncommutative k-Schur functions in terms of the nilCoxeter algebra introduced by Lam and the affine analogue of noncommutative symmet...

We study a division problem which allocates resources to agents with single-peaked preferences, who have a right to decide for the participation. We introduce the generalized uniform rule which assigns resources to agent as equally as possible subject to the participation constraints. We present various characterizations of the generalized uniform rule on the basis of separability principle.

Using Hayashi's inequality, an Iyengar type inequality for functions with bounded second derivative is obtained. This result improves a similar result from [N. Elezovi´c, J. Pečari´c, Steffensen's inequality and estimates of error in trapezoidal rule, Appl. In 1938 Iyengar proved the following inequality in [1]: Theorem 1. Let function f be differentiable on [a, b] and | f (x)| ≤ M. Then 1 b − ...

Both Takagi–Sugeno (TS) and Mamdani fuzzy systems are known to be universal approximators. In this paper, we investigate whether one type of the fuzzy approximators is more economical than the other type. The TS fuzzy systems in this study are the typical two-input single-output TS fuzzy systems: they employ trapezoidal or triangular input fuzzy sets, arbitrary fuzzy rules with linear rule cons...

The purpose of this study is to construct a fuzzy lithology system from well logs to identify formation lithology of a groundwater aquifer system in order to better apply conventional well logging interpretation in hydro-geologic studies because well log responses of aquifers are sometimes different from those of conventional oil and gas reservoirs. The input variables for this system are the g...

We explore an intimate connection between Young tableaux and representations of the symmetric group. We describe the construction of Specht modules which are irreducible representations of Sn, and also highlight some interesting results such as the branching rule and Young’s rule.

Following the ideas of Liniger and Willoughby (although acting along different lines), a new family of schemes, derived from the trapezoidal rule, is developed, which enables the fitting of the scheme to arbitrary sets of equations.