This paper deals with the problem of ranking n fuzzy subsets of the unit interval. A number of
methods suggested in the literature is reviewed and tested on a group of selected examples …

This paper reviews the main theories and methods used for multiple attribute decision
making in a fuzzy environment. Fuzzy multiple attribute decisions involve two processes, the …

Decision makers are often faced with several conflicting alternatives. How do they evaluate
trade-offs when there are more than three criteria? To help people make optimal decisions …

Up to now, these are five methods of ranking n fuzzy numbers in order, but these methods
contain some confusions and occasionally conflict with intuition. This paper introduces the …

In the two decades since its inception by L. Zadeh, the theory of fuzzy sets has matured into
a wide-ranging collection of concepts, models, and tech niques for dealing with complex …

Many ranking methods have been proposed so far. However, there is yet no method that can
always give a satisfactory solution to every situation; some are counterintuitive, not …

Many industries are facing big challenges to design supply chains in a way to maximize the
profit and meet the heightened expectations of the customer. This new era entirely relies on …

As a continuation of the first part related to the first and second class of ordering approaches
this paper deals with the fulfilment of reasonable properties in the third class of ordering …

We investigate the problem of employing expert opinion to rank alternatives across a set of
criteria. The experts use fuzzy numbers to express their preferences and we employ fuzzy …

Ranking fuzzy numbers plays an very important role in linguistic decision making and some
other fuzzy application systems. Several strategies have been proposed for ranking of fuzzy …