Fuzzy and Multi-Level Decision Making: Soft Computing Approaches

✍ Scribed by Chi-Bin Cheng, Hsu-Shih Shih, E. Stanley Lee

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 225
Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 368
Edition: 2nd ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book offers a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge approaches for decision-making in hierarchical organizations. It presents soft-computing-based techniques, including fuzzy sets, neural networks, genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization, and shows how these approaches can be effectively used to deal with problems typical of this kind of organization. After introducing the main classical approaches applied to multiple-level programming, the book describes a set of soft-computing techniques, demonstrating their advantages in providing more efficient solutions to hierarchical decision-making problems compared to the classical methods. Based on the book Fuzzy and Multi-Level Decision Making (Springer, 2001) by Lee E.S and Shih, H., this second edition has been expanded to include the most recent findings and methods and a broader spectrum of soft computing approaches. All the algorithms are presented in detail, together with a wealth of practical examples and solutions to real-world problems, providing students, researchers and professionals with a timely, practice-oriented reference guide to the area of interactive fuzzy decision making, multi-level programming and hierarchical optimization.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Introduction (Chi-Bin Cheng, Hsu-Shih Shih, E. Stanley Lee)....Pages 1-13
Linear Bi-level Programming (Chi-Bin Cheng, Hsu-Shih Shih, E. Stanley Lee)....Pages 15-72
Possibility Theory and Fuzzy Optimization (Chi-Bin Cheng, Hsu-Shih Shih, E. Stanley Lee)....Pages 73-88
Fuzzy Interactive Multi-level Decision Making (Chi-Bin Cheng, Hsu-Shih Shih, E. Stanley Lee)....Pages 89-111
Aggregation of Fuzzy Systems in Multi-level Decisions (Chi-Bin Cheng, Hsu-Shih Shih, E. Stanley Lee)....Pages 113-129
Multi-level Optimization by Fuzzy Dynamic Programming (Chi-Bin Cheng, Hsu-Shih Shih, E. Stanley Lee)....Pages 131-146
Auction Mechanisms for Solving Multi-level Programming (Chi-Bin Cheng, Hsu-Shih Shih, E. Stanley Lee)....Pages 147-169
Metaheuristics for Multi-level Optimization (Chi-Bin Cheng, Hsu-Shih Shih, E. Stanley Lee)....Pages 171-188
Neural Networks for Solving Multi-level Programming (Chi-Bin Cheng, Hsu-Shih Shih, E. Stanley Lee)....Pages 189-209
Back Matter ....Pages 211-219

✦ Subjects

Engineering; Computational Intelligence; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Supply Chain Management; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing

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