{"title":"(2103-6531) Monte Carlo statistical test for fuzzy quality","authors":"A. Parchami, H. Iranmanesh, B. S. Gildeh","doi":"10.22111/IJFS.2021.6279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22111/IJFS.2021.6279","url":null,"abstract":"Testing the capability of a productive process on the basis of the flexible fuzzy quality using Yongting's index is proposed in this paper by the Monte Carlo simulation. The theoretical approach and detailed steps of an algorithm are givento simulate the critical-value-based and also p-value-based approaches to statistical testing fuzzy quality. Also, the probability of type II error of the quality test simulated by Monte Carlo approach. Moreover, a real-world case studyis provided to show the performance of the proposed algorithm for triangular and trapezoidal fuzzy qualities.","PeriodicalId":54920,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems","volume":"299 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76477120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(2103-6517) Arithmetic operations and ranking of hesitant fuzzy numbers by extension principle","authors":"M. Ranjbar, S. M. Miri, S. Effati","doi":"10.22111/IJFS.2021.6282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22111/IJFS.2021.6282","url":null,"abstract":"A hesitant fuzzy number (HFN) is important as a generalization of the fuzzy number for hesitant fuzzy analysis and takes some applications that were discussed in recent literature. In this paper, we develop the hesitant fuzzy arithmetic, which is based on the extension principle for hesitant fuzzy sets. Employing this principle, standard arithmetic operations on fuzzy numbers are extended to HFNs and we show that the outcome of these operations on two HFNs are an HFN.Also we use the extension principle in HFSs for the ranking of HFNs, which may be an interesting topic. In this paper, we show that the HFNs can be ordered in a natural way. To introduce a meaningful ordering of HFNs, we use a newlattice operation on HFNs based upon extension principle and defining the Hamming distance on them. Finally, the applications of them are explained on optimization and decision-making problems.","PeriodicalId":54920,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85308288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(2011-6287) A fuzzy non-parametric time series model based on fuzzy data","authors":"G. Hesamian, F. Torkian, M. Yarmohammadi","doi":"10.22111/IJFS.2021.6281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22111/IJFS.2021.6281","url":null,"abstract":"Parametric time series models typically consists of model identification, parameter estimation, model diagnostic checking, and forecasting. However compared with parametric methods, nonparametric time series models often providea very flexible approach to bring out the features of the observed time series. This paper suggested a novel fuzzy nonparametric method in time series models with fuzzy observations. For this purpose, a fuzzy forward fit kernel-basedsmoothing method was introduced to estimate fuzzy smooth functions corresponding to each observation. A simple optimization algorithm was also suggested to evaluate optimal bandwidths and autoregressive order. Several common goodness-of-fit criteria were also extended to compare the performance of the proposed fuzzy time series method compared to other fuzzy time series model based on fuzzy data. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the proposed method was illustrated through two numerical examples including a simulation study. The results indicate that the proposed model performs better than the previous ones in terms of both scatter plot criteria and goodness-of-fit evaluations.","PeriodicalId":54920,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76954260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preference implication-based approach to ranking fuzzy numbers","authors":"J. Dombi, T. Jónás","doi":"10.22111/IJFS.2021.6176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22111/IJFS.2021.6176","url":null,"abstract":"Dombi and Baczy'{n}ski presented a new approach to the problem of implication operation by introducing the preference implication, which has very advantageous properties. In this paper, it is presented how the preference implication is connected with soft inequalities and with sigmoid functions. Utilizing this connection the preference implication-based preference measure for two fuzzy numbers is introduced and its key properties, including the reciprocity, are described. Then, the exact expression for computing the new preference measure for trapezoidal fuzzy numbers is presented. Here, using the new preference measure, two crisp relations over trapezoidal fuzzy numbers are introduced. It is shown that one of them is a strict (but not a total) order relation, and the other one is an equivalence relation. The strict order relation can be used to rank comparable fuzzy numbers, while the equivalence relation, which we call the indifference relation, expresses that the order of some fuzzy numbers is indifferent. These two crisp relations can be used to rank a collection of trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. Lastly, the proposed ranking method is compared with some well-known existing fuzzy number ranking methods.","PeriodicalId":54920,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems","volume":"19 1","pages":"51-68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84474506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On matrix games with 2-tuple intuitionistic fuzzy linguistic payoffs","authors":"R. Verma, A. Aggarwal","doi":"10.22111/IJFS.2021.6182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22111/IJFS.2021.6182","url":null,"abstract":"In real-world decision-making problems, experts often prefer to express their views, regarding problem parameters, in a natural language rather than precise numerical form. Linguistic representation models have been widely used to solve many decision-making problems with qualitative information. Game theory has been found successful applications in a wide range of areas. This paper presents an extensive study of matrix games with qualitative payoffs. The work uses 2-tuple intuitionistic fuzzy linguistic values (2-TIFLVs) to represent the payoffs of the matrix game. We develop the mathematical formulation and concepts of the solutions for matrix games with payoffs represented by 2-TIFLVs. Paper also shows that matrix games with payoffs of 2-TIFLVs have solutions that can be obtained by transforming the matrix game in a pair of linear/nonlinear programming problems. Finally, a real-life numerical is given to illustrate the developed method.","PeriodicalId":54920,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems","volume":"29 1","pages":"149-167"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88938876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the properties of the fuzzy weighted average of fuzzy numbers with normalized fuzzy weights","authors":"O. Pavlacka, M. Pavlačková","doi":"10.22111/IJFS.2021.6173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22111/IJFS.2021.6173","url":null,"abstract":"Weighted average with normalized weights is a widely used aggregation operator that takes into account the varying degrees of importance of the numbers in a data set. It possesses some important properties, like monotonicity, continuity, additivity, etc., that play an important role in practical applications. The inputs of the aggregation as well as the normalized weights are usually not known precisely. In such a case, their values can be expressed by fuzzy numbers, and the fuzzy weighted average of fuzzy numbers with normalized fuzzy weights needs to be employed in the model. The aim of the paper is to reveal whether and in which way the properties of the weighted average operator can be observed also for its fuzzy extension. It is shown that it possesses three conditions characteristic for aggregation operators -- identity, monotonicity and boundary conditions, and besides that, also compensation, idempotency, stability for linear transformation, 1-lipschitzianity, and continuity. Furthermore, it is proved that it preserves strict monotonicity in case of positive fuzzy weights, and symmetry in case of equal fuzzy weights, although it does not coincide with the fuzzy arithmetic mean operator in such a case. One of the most valuable result of the study is the fact that in contrast to the crisp weighted average operator, it is not additive. The importance of the obtained results is discussed and illustrated by several illustrative examples.","PeriodicalId":54920,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems","volume":"21 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85360435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sensitivity and strong sensitivity on induced dynamical systems","authors":"Daniel Roberto Jardón, I. Sánchez","doi":"10.22111/IJFS.2021.6177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22111/IJFS.2021.6177","url":null,"abstract":"Given a metric space X, we consider the family of all normal upper semicontinuous fuzzy sets on X, denoted by $mathcal{F}(X)$, and a discrete dynamical system $(X,f)$. In this paper, we study when $(mathcal{F}(X), widehat{f})$ is (strongly) sensitive, where $widehat{f}$ is the Zadeh's extension of f and $mathcal{F}(X)$ is equipped with different metrics: The uniform metric, the Skorokhod metric, the sendograph metric and the endograph metric. We prove that the sensitivity in the induced dynamical system $(mathcal{K}(X),overline{f})$ is equivalent to the sensitivity in $ widehat{f} :mathcal{F}(X)to mathcal{F}(X) $ with respect to the uniform metric, the Skorokhod metric and the sendograph metric. We also show that the following conditions are equivalent:item {rm a)} $(X,f)$ is strongly sensitive;item {rm b)} $(mathcal{F}(X), widehat{f})$ is strongly sensitive, where $mathcal{F}(X)$ is equipped with the uniform metric;item {rm c)} $(mathcal{F}(X), widehat{f})$ is strongly sensitive, where $mathcal{F}(X)$ is equipped with the Skorokhod metric;item {rm d)} $(mathcal{F}(X), widehat{f})$ is strongly sensitive, where $mathcal{F}(X)$ is equipped with the sendograph metric.","PeriodicalId":54920,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems","volume":"55 1","pages":"69-78"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84752950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Farahbakhsh, S. H. Moosavirad, Y. Asadi, A. Amirbeigi
{"title":"Developing a fuzzy programming model for improving outpatient appointment scheduling","authors":"B. Farahbakhsh, S. H. Moosavirad, Y. Asadi, A. Amirbeigi","doi":"10.22111/IJFS.2021.6183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22111/IJFS.2021.6183","url":null,"abstract":"Appointment scheduling for outpatient services is a challenge in the healthcare sector. For addressing this challenge, most studies assumed that patients’ unpunctuality and the duration of service have constant values or a specific probability distribution function. Consequently, there is a research gap to consider the uncertainty of both patients’ unpunctuality and the duration of service in terms of fuzzy sets. Therefore, this research aims to consider fuzzy values for both unpunctuality and duration of service have to improve an outpatient appointment scheduling (the time interval between two patients) in a referral clinic with the objective of reducing the total weight of waiting time, idle time, and overtime. Four different fuzzy linear programming models and 36 scenarios have been developed based on the show, no-show of patients, single-book, and double-book by using GAMS software. These four models are as follows: (1) probability of no-show equal to zero, (2) probability of no-show equal to 20%, (3) probability of no-show equal to zero and with double-book factor, and (4) probability of no-show equal to 20% and with double-book factor. The results of the first, second, third, and fourth models, respectively, present the scenarios considering 10, 5, 15, and 15 minutes for the time interval between two patients that have the minimum total weight of patient waiting times, physician idle times, and physician overtime. By considering these findings, the investigated referral clinic can improve its appointment system’s performance. Moreover, other similar clinics can apply the proposed model for improving their appointment systems' performance.","PeriodicalId":54920,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems","volume":"78 1","pages":"169-184"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82845485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"F-transforms determined by implicators","authors":"A. Tripathi, S. P. Tiwari, I. Perfilieva","doi":"10.22111/IJFS.2021.6174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22111/IJFS.2021.6174","url":null,"abstract":"This work aims to study F-transforms based on general implicators and to investigate their basic properties. Interestingly, we show that some of the properties of F-transforms fail to hold in the case of implicators, such as S- and QL-implicators. {Further, we establish an equivalence between L-fuzzy transformation systems and F-transforms}.","PeriodicalId":54920,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems","volume":"221 1","pages":"19-36"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76641660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Kanakalakshmi, R. Sakthivel, L. S. Ramya, A. Parivallal, A. Leelamani
{"title":"Disturbance estimator based dynamic compensator design for fractional order fuzzy control systems","authors":"S. Kanakalakshmi, R. Sakthivel, L. S. Ramya, A. Parivallal, A. Leelamani","doi":"10.22111/IJFS.2021.6178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22111/IJFS.2021.6178","url":null,"abstract":"The robust stabilization problem for singular fractional order time delay T-S fuzzy systems with nonlinearities and unknown external disturbances is addressed in this paper. An equivalent-input-disturbance (EID) estimator is used to estimate the impact of external disturbances and nonlinearities on the system output. Based on this EID approach, a dynamic compensator is designed to solve the stabilization problem of the considered system. Moreover, by considering a relevant Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional candidate and by using Lyapunov technique, the stability conditions in terms of LMIs are acquired for the considered closed-loop system. At last, to validate the effectiveness of the proposed result, two numerical examples are provided.","PeriodicalId":54920,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems","volume":"39 1","pages":"79-93"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83074236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}