envelopment analysis (dea) is a very eective method to evaluate the relative eciency of decision-making units (dmus). dea models divided all dmus in two categories: ecient and inecientdmus, and don't able to discriminant between ecient dmus. on the other hand, the observedvalues of the input and output data in real-life problems are sometimes imprecise or vague, suchas interval data, ...

Smooth implementation and controlling conflicting goals of a project with the usage of all related resources through organization is inherently a complex task to management. At the same time deterministic models are never efficient in practical project management (PM) decision problems because the related parameters are frequently fuzzy in nature. The project execution time is a major concern o...

To face the reality of practical multiple criteria problems usually possessing characters of fuzziness, and to consider group decision making with various subjective–objective backgrounds usually participating in decision-making process. In this paper, the experts’ opinions are described by linguistic terms which can be expressed in trapezoidal (or triangular) fuzzy numbers. To make the consens...

Let us consider the Analytic Hierarchy Process in which the labels are structured as graded numbers. To obtain the scoring that corresponds to the best alternative, or the ranking of the alternatives, we need to use a total order for the graded numbers involved in the problem. In this article, we consider a definition of such a total order, which is based upon two subjective aspects: the degree...

The objective of the redundancy allocation problem is to select the parts to be used and a design configuration to optimize some objective function without violating systemlevel constraints. In this paper, the problem was formulated in a more general framework than has previously been accomplished, allowing for the explicit consideration of the risk-profile of system designers and users. Risk i...

This paper presents a comprehensive robust distributed intelligent control for optimum self-healing activities in smart distribution systems considering the uncertainty in loads. The presented agent based framework obviates the requirements for a central control method and improves the reliability of the self-healing mechanism. Agents possess three characteristics including local views, decentr...

Abstract: The following work outlines a robust method for accounting the fuzziness of the objective space while dealing with the real world optimization problems. Use of mean/approximated value of input parameters doesn't account for the variability in the optimized solution inherited due to variability in the input parameters which is very crucial, especially in real world problems. The follow...

In an earlier work [Pop and Stancu Minasian, 2008], we proposed a method of solving the fully fuzzified linear fractional programming (FFLFP) problem. In this paper, we propose another method of solving the FFLFP problem. First, analogically using the Charnes-Cooper method, we transform the linear fractional programming problem into a linear one. Next, problem of maximizing a function with tria...

In general fuzzy sets are used to analyze the fuzzy system reliability. Here intuitionistic fuzzy set theory for analyzing the fuzzy system reliability has been used. To analyze the fuzzy system reliability, the reliability of each component of the system as a triangular intuitionistic fuzzy number is considered. Triangular intuitionistic fuzzy number and their arithmetic operations are introdu...

This paper considers a bi-objective model for a scheduling problem of unrelated parallel batch processing machines to minimize the makespan and maximum tardiness, simultaneously. Each job has a specific size and the data corresponding to its ready time, due date and processing time-dependent machine are uncertain and determined by trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. Each machine has a specific capacity,...