TY - JOUR
T1 - A novel method for solving the fully neutrosophic linear programming problems
AU - Abdel-Basset, Mohamed
AU - Gunasekaran, M.
AU - Mohamed, Mai
AU - Smarandache, Florentin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, The Natural Computing Applications Forum.
PY - 2019/5/3
Y1 - 2019/5/3
N2 - The most widely used technique for solving and optimizing a real-life problem is linear programming (LP), due to its simplicity and efficiency. However, in order to handle the impreciseness in the data, the neutrosophic set theory plays a vital role which makes a simulation of the decision-making process of humans by considering all aspects of decision (i.e., agree, not sure and disagree). By keeping the advantages of it, in the present work, we have introduced the neutrosophic LP models where their parameters are represented with a trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers and presented a technique for solving them. The presented approach has been illustrated with some numerical examples and shows their superiority with the state of the art by comparison. Finally, we conclude that proposed approach is simpler, efficient and capable of solving the LP models as compared to other methods.
AB - The most widely used technique for solving and optimizing a real-life problem is linear programming (LP), due to its simplicity and efficiency. However, in order to handle the impreciseness in the data, the neutrosophic set theory plays a vital role which makes a simulation of the decision-making process of humans by considering all aspects of decision (i.e., agree, not sure and disagree). By keeping the advantages of it, in the present work, we have introduced the neutrosophic LP models where their parameters are represented with a trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers and presented a technique for solving them. The presented approach has been illustrated with some numerical examples and shows their superiority with the state of the art by comparison. Finally, we conclude that proposed approach is simpler, efficient and capable of solving the LP models as compared to other methods.
KW - Linear programming
KW - Neutrosophic set
KW - Ranking function
KW - Trapezoidal neutrosophic number
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U2 - 10.1007/s00521-018-3404-6
DO - 10.1007/s00521-018-3404-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067657230
SN - 0941-0643
VL - 31
SP - 1595
EP - 1605
JO - Neural Computing and Applications
JF - Neural Computing and Applications
IS - 5
ER -