data envelopment analysis (dea) is a technique used to compare efficiency in various sectors such as hospitals, chain stores, and dealerships. it represents a set of linear programming techniques and uses deter-ministic data (inputs and outputs), in stable conditions. the dea technique cannot be used when there is data with indeterministic nature, or when there is an environment with dynamic co...

comparing the performance of a set of activities or organizations under uncertainty environment has been performed by means of fuzzy data envelopment analysis (fdea) since the traditional dea models require accurate and precise performance data. as regards a method for dealing with uncertainty environment, many researchers have introduced dea models in fuzzy environment. some of these models ar...

in common classical methods of cavity depth estimation through microgravity data, usually when a pre-geometrical model is considered for the cavity shape, the simple geometrical models of sphere, vertical cylinder and horizontal cylinder are commonly used. it is obviously an important fact that in real conditions the shapes of the cavities are not exactly sphere, horizontal cylinder or vertical...

Clustering approaches organize a set of objects into groups whose members are proximate according to some similarity function defined on lowlevel features, assuming that their values are not subject to any kind of uncertainty. Furthermore, these methods assume that similarity is measured by accounting only the degree in which two entities are related, ignoring the hesitancy introduced by the de...