Preventive health care is unlike health care for acute ailments, as people are less alert to their unknown medical problems. In order to motivate public and to attain desired participation levels for preventive programs, the attractiveness of the health care facility is a major concern. Health economics literature indicates that attractiveness of a facility is significantly influenced by proxim...

in this paper, we introduce a considerable machinery which permits us to characterize a number of special (fuzzy) subsets in ag -groupoids. generalizing the concepts of (,q) -fuzzy bi-ideals (interior ideal), we define ( , ) k q -fuzzy bi-ideals, ( , ) k q -fuzzy left (right)-ideals and ( , ) k q -fuzzy interior ideals in ag -groupoids and discuss some fundamental aspects of these i...

Vendor managed inventory is a continuous replenishment program that is designed to provide major cost saving benefits for both vendors and retailers. Previous research on this area mainly included single objective optimization models where the objective is to minimize the total supply chain costs or to maximize the total supply chain benefits. This paper presents a bi-objective mathematical mod...

Abstract In this paper, we have introduced anti fuzzy quasi-ideals, anti fuzzy bi-(generalized bi-) ideals and anti fuzzy left (right, two-sided) ideals in LA-semigroup. Further we have characterized an intra-regular LA-semigroup by the properties of their anti fuzzy left (right, two-sided) ideals, anti fuzzy bi(generalized bi-)ideals, anti fuzzy interior ideals and anti fuzzy quasi-ideals. Fur...

Fuzzy bi-ideals play an important role in the study of ordered semigroupstructures. The purpose of this paper is to initiate and study theintiuitionistic fuzzy bi-ideals in ordered semigroups and investigate thebasic theorem of intuitionistic fuzzy bi-ideals. To provide thecharacterizations of regular ordered semigroups in terms of intuitionisticfuzzy bi-ideals and to discuss the relationships ...

Abstract. In this paper, we introduce the concept of T−fuzzy interior ideal, T−fuzzy simple, T−fuzzy bi-ideal, and generalized T−fuzzy bi-ideal of a Γ−semigroup. We characterize Γ−semigroups through T−fuzzification. We find equivalent conditions on these fuzzy subsets in simple Γ−semigroups and Γ−semigroups. Finally, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition for a T -fuzzy bi-ideal to b...

In this paper, we introduce and study the prime, strongly prime,semiprime and irreducible fuzzy bi-ideals of a semigroup. We characterize thosesemigroups for which each fuzzy bi-ideal is semiprime. We also characterizethose semigroups for which each fuzzy bi-ideal is strongly prime.