Two-phase approach for solving the fuzzy linear programming problems

✍ Scribed by Sy-Ming Guua; Yan-Kuen Wu

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 334 KB
• Volume: 107
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-0114
• DOI: 10.1016/s0165-0114(97)00304-7

✦ Synopsis

We propose a two-phase approach to solve the fuzzy linear programming problem. Although several methods in the literature have been proposed to treat this problem, the two-phase approach has the merit stated as: if the decision maker is seeking an efficient solution which can improve the max-min operators' solution so that each membership degree should be improved, then the two-phase method automatically attains this desire if there is room to improve. An interpretation of this result is that the two-phase method not just pursue the highest membership degree in the objective, but also pursue a better utilization of each constrained resource.