A knot in $S^3$ is rationally slice if it bounds a disk rational homology ball. We give an infinite family of knots that are linearly independent the concordance group. In particular, our examples all order. All previously known were order two.

a fully fuzzy linear programming (fflp) formulation for the reservoir operation of amultipurpose reservoir in presented in the ongoing paper. in the real world, water resourcessystems usually have complexities among social, economic, natural resources andenvironmental aspects, which lead to multi-objective problems of significant uncertainties insystem parameters, objectives and in their intera...

there are two interesting methods, in the literature, for solving fuzzy linear programming problems in which the elements of coefficient matrix of the constraints are represented by real numbers and rest of the parameters are represented by symmetric trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. the first method, named as fuzzy primal simplex method, assumes an initial primal basic feasible solution is at hand. t...

in this paper, a  fuzzy numerical procedure for solving fuzzy linear volterra integro-differential equations of the second kind under strong  generalized differentiability is designed. unlike the existing numerical methods, we do not replace the original fuzzy equation by a $2times 2$ system ofcrisp equations, that is the main difference between our method  and other numerical methods.error ana...

Information fusion introduces special operators ◦ in probability theory and fuzzy theory. Some serious data certify in each cases these two quite distinct techniques. This communication will show that four postulates are the unique aim of these two theories. Evidence theory and fuzzy set theory replace often probabilities in medicine, economy and control. Fuzzy theory is used for example in Jap...

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...

fuzzy linear regression models are used to obtain an appropriate linear relation between a dependent variable and several independent variables in a fuzzy environment. several methods for evaluating fuzzy coefficients in linear regression models have been proposed. the first attempts at estimating the parameters of a fuzzy regression model used mathematical programming methods. in this the...

A‎s we know, developing mathematical models and numerical procedures that would appropriately treat and solve systems of linear equations where some of the system's parameters are proposed as fuzzy numbers is very important in fuzzy set theory. For this reason, many researchers have used various numerical methods to solve fuzzy linear systems. In this paper, we define the concepts of midpoint a...