The main purposes of this paper are to probe for the entropy differences between arithmetically manipulated Triangular Fuzzy Numbers (TFNs) using Shannon’s Function; and to study the relationships between any two TFNs. Simultaneously, we expand on the articles of Wang et al. [6] and Wang et al. [5]. The entropy differences between two TFNs subjected to different arithmetic operations are classi...

In this paper, a more general definition of triangular intuitionistic fuzzy number (TIFN) is proposed by removing the `normality' in the definition of intuitionistic fuzzy number. The basic arithmetic operations of generalized triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (GTIFNs) and the notion of -cut sets are defined. Also a nearest interval approximation method is described to approximate a GTIFN...

This paper extends the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) for solving multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems under triangular intuitionistic fuzzy sets by using its correlation coefficient. In situations where the information or the data is of the form of triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (TIFNs), some arithmetic aggregation operators h...

In many real life problems, the parameters used to characterize the uncertainty or vagueness or impreciseness in information are either triangular or trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. But it is not always possible to restrict the membership function to either triangular or trapezoidal form. In this paper, a new form of non-normal fuzzy number named as Heptagonal fuzzy number is introduced and its arit...

In the fuzzy arithmetic, the definitions of addition and multiplication of fuzzy numbers are based on Zadeh’s extension principle. From theoretical and practical points of view, this multiplication of fuzzy numbers owns several unnatural properties. Recently, to avoid this shortcoming, a new multiplicative operation of product type is introduced, the so-called cross-product of fuzzy numbers. Th...

decision making about outsourcing or insourcing of manufacturing activities is a type of multiple criteria decision making (mcdm) problem, which requires considering quantitative and qualitative factors as evaluation criteria simultaneously. therefore, a suitable mcdm method can be useful in this area as it can consider the interactions among quantitative and qualitative criteria. the analytic ...

In this paper, some elementary operations on triangular fuzzynumbers (TFNs) are defined. We also define some operations on triangularfuzzy matrices (TFMs) such as trace and triangular fuzzy determinant(TFD). Using elementary operations, some important properties of TFMs arepresented. The concept of adjoints on TFM is discussed and some of theirproperties are. Some special types of TFMs (e.g. pu...

although many methods exist for intensity modulated radiotherapy (imrt) fluence map optimization for crisp data, based on clinical practice, some of the involved parameters are fuzzy. in this paper, the best fluence maps for an imrt procedure were identifed as a solution of an optimization problem with a quadratic objective function, where the prescribed target dose vector was fuzzy. first, a d...

in this paper a linear fuzzy fredholm integral equation(ffie) with arbitrary fuzzy function input and symmetric triangular (fuzzy interval) output is considered. for each variable, output is the nearest triangular fuzzy number (fuzzy interval) to the exact fuzzy solution of (ffie).

ranking fuzzy numbers plays a very important role in linguistic decision making and other fuzzy application systems. in spite of many ranking methods, no one can rank fuzzy numbers with human intuition consistently in all cases. shortcoming are found in some of the convenient methods for ranking triangular fuzzy numbers such as the coefficient of variation (cv index), distance between fuzzy set...