The fuzzy approach has undergone a profound structural transformation in the past few decades. Numerous studies have been undertaken to explain fuzzy approach for linear and nonlinear programs. While, the findings in earlier studies have been conflicting, recent studies of competitive situations indicate that fractional programming problem has a positive impact on comparative scenario. We propo...

Fuzzy number approximation by trapezoidal fuzzy numbers which preserves the expected interval is discussed. New operators that fulfill additional requirements for the core and support of the fuzzy number are suggested. These supplementary conditions guarantee the proper interpretation of the solution even for very skew original fuzzy numbers.

In this paper, we present a revised similarity measure based onChen-and-Chen's similarity measure for fuzzy risk analysis. The revisedsimilarity measure uses the corrected formulae to calculate the centre ofgravity points, therefore it is more  effective than the Chen-and-Chen'smethod. The revised similarity measure can overcome the drawbacks of theexisting methods. We have also proposed a new ...

In this paper the concept of (computational) verb number and arithmetical operations of verb numbers are presented. A verb number is a kind of special computational verb, which is derived from structures of (host) verb+(real, interval, fuzzy) number. From the linguistic point of view, a verb number is a computational verb with contexts defined by (real, interval, fuzzy) numbers. Verb numbers ca...

A novel formalism is presented, which enables the processing of heterogeneous data including numeric-, interval-valued-, or fuzzydata. The data in question are represented herein as interval-supported fuzzy sets with suitable membership functions. The term Fuzzy Interval Number (FIN) denotes one of the aforementioned types of data. A FIN can have either a positive or a negative membership funct...