Fixed charge transportation problem with type-2 fuzzy variables

  • Authors:
  • Pradip Kundu;Samarjit Kar;Manoranjan Maiti

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2014

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.07

Visualization

Abstract

This paper considers two fixed charge transportation problems with type-2 fuzzy parameters. Unit transportation costs, fixed costs in the first problem and unit transportation costs, fixed costs, supplies and demands in the second problem are type-2 fuzzy variables. For the first problem, to get corresponding defuzzified values of the type-2 fuzzy cost parameters, first critical value (CV)-based reduction methods are applied to reduce type-2 fuzzy variables into type-1 fuzzy variables and then centroid method is used for complete defuzzification. Besides this, we also apply geometric defuzzification method to the type-2 fuzzy cost parameters in the first problem to provide a comparison of the results. Coming to the second problem, a chance-constrained programming model is formulated using generalized credibility measure for the objective function as well as the constraints with the CV-based reductions of corresponding type-2 fuzzy parameters. Next, the reduced model is turned into equivalent parametric programming problem. The deterministic problems so obtained are then solved by using the standard optimization solver - LINGO. We have provided numerical examples illustrating the proposed models and techniques. Some sensitivity analyzes for the second model are also presented.