A fuzzy multi-objective linear programming with interval-typed triangular fuzzy numbers

Abstract

A multi-objective linear programming problem (ITF-MOLP) is presented in this paper, in which coefficients of both the objective functions and constraints are interval-typed triangular fuzzy numbers. An algorithm of the ITF-MOLP is provided by introducing the cut set of interval-typed triangular fuzzy numbers and the dominance possibility criterion. In particular, for a given level, the ITF-MOLP is converted to the maximization of the sum of membership degrees of each objective in ITF-MOLP, whose membership degrees are established based on the deviation from optimal solutions of individual objectives, and the constraints are transformed to normal inequalities by utilizing the dominance possibility criterion when compared with two interval-typed triangular fuzzy numbers. Then the equivalent linear programming model is obtained which could be solved by Matlab toolbox. Finally several examples are provided to illuminate the proposed method by comparing with the existing methods and sensitive analysis demonstrates the stability of the optimal solution.