Empirical (α, β)-acceptable optimal values to full fuzzy linear fractional programming problems

Abstract

In this paper we aim to provide empirical solutions to a special class of full fuzzy linear fractional programming problems. We use trapezoidal fuzzy numbers to describe the parameters and derive empirical shape of the membership of the goal function optimal values of the problem. Our approach essentially follows the extension principle, and is based on solving crisp quadratic optimization problems. The model we propose treats in different ways, through two independent parameters, the objective function coefficients and coefficients in the constraints. To illustrate our theory, we solve a relevant instance and compare our numerical results with the numerical results recalled from the recent literature.