Fuzzy sets and logic have been largely used for the treatment of the uncertainty, vagueness and ambiguity found in the modeling of real problems. However, there may exist also the case when there is uncertainty related to the membership functions to be used in the modeling of fuzzy sets and fuzzy numbers, as there are many ways to define the shape of this kind of number. Thus, one can use, for ...

By using the concepts of fuzzy number fuzzy measures and fuzzy valued functions a theory of fuzzy integrals is investigated. In this paper we have established the fuzzy version of Generalised monotone Convergence theorem and generalised Fatous lemma. 1. Introduction In the preceding paper [2], it is introduced that a concept of fuzzy number fuzzy measures, defined the fuzzy integral of a functi...

Recently, bipolar fuzzy sets have been studied and applied a bit enthusiastically and a bit increasingly. In this paper we prove that bipolar fuzzy sets and [0,1](2)-sets (which have been deeply studied) are actually cryptomorphic mathematical notions. Since researches or modelings on real world problems often involve multi-agent, multi-attribute, multi-object, multi-index, multi-polar informat...

Many algorithms for fuzzy clustering depend on initial guesses of cluster prototypes, and on assumptions made as to the number of subgroups present in the data. This study reports on a method for carrying out fuzzy classification without apriori assumptions on the number of clusters in the data set. Assessment of cluster validity is based on performance measures using hypervolnme and density cr...

The author proposes an extension of genetic algorithm (GA) for solving fuzzy-valued optimization problems. In the proposed GA, values in the genotypes are not real numbers but fuzzy numbers. Evolutionary processes in GA are extended so that GA can handle genotype instances with fuzzy numbers. The proposed method is applied to evolving neural networks with fuzzy weights and biases. Experimental ...

In many real decision situations, for each of the alternatives, we only have fuzzy information about the consequences of each action. This fuzzy information can be described by a fuzzy number, i.e., by a membership function with a single local maximum, or it can be described by a more complex fuzzy set, with several local maxima. We show that, from the viewpoint of decision making, it is suffic...

the aim of this paper is to introduce and study a new concept ofstrong double $(a)_ {delta}$-convergent sequence offuzzy numbers with respect to an orlicz function and also someproperties of the resulting sequence spaces of fuzzy   numbers areexamined. in addition, we define the double$(a,delta)$-statistical convergence of fuzzy  numbers andestablish some connections between the spaces of stron...

Using alternative fuel vehicles is one of the ways to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels which have many negative environmental effects. An alternative fuel vehicle needs special planning for its refueling operations because of some reasons, e.g. limited number of refueling stations, uncertain refueling queue times in the stations, variable alternative fuel prices among the stations, etc. I...

The capacitated arc routing problem (CARP) is one of the most important routing problems with many applications in real world situations. In some real applications such as urban waste collection and etc., decision makers have to consider more than one objective and investigate the problem under uncertain situations where required edges have demand for more than one type of commodity. So, in thi...