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Solving fuzzy relation equations with a linear objective function. (English) Zbl 0933.90069
Summary: An optimization model with a linear objective function subject to a system of fuzzy relation equations is presented. Due to the non-convexity of its feasible domain defined by fuzzy relation equations, designing an efficient solution procedure for solving such problems is not a trivial job. In this paper, we first characterize the feasible domain and then convert the problem to an equivalent problem involving 0-1 integer programming with a branch-and-bound solution technique. After presenting our solution procedure, a concrete example is included for illustration purpose.

MSC:
 90C70 Fuzzy and other nonstochastic uncertainty mathematical programming 90C08 Special problems of linear programming (transportation, multi-index, data envelopment analysis, etc.) 90C09 Boolean programming
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