A Study of Fully Fuzzy Linear Fractional Programming Problems by Signed Distance Ranking Technique

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to study fully fuzzy linear fractional programming (FFLFP) problems where all coefficients of the decision variables and parameters are characterized by triangular fuzzy numbers. To deal with this, the authors have first to transform FFLFP problems to fuzzy linear programming (FLP) problems by using Charnes and Cooper method and then use signed distance ranking to convert fuzzy linear programming (FLP) problems to crisp linear programming (LP) problems. The proposed method is solved by using the simplex method to find the optimal solution of the problem. The authors have studied sensitivity analysis to determine changes in the optimal solution of the fully fuzzy linear fractional programming (FFLFP) problems resulting from changes in the parameters. To demonstrate the proposed method, one numerical example is solved.