Enumeration of All Possibly Optimal Vertices with Possible Optimality Degrees in Linear Programming Problems with a Possibilistic Objective Function

Abstract

In this paper, we treat linear programming problems with fuzzy objective function coefficients. To such a problem, the possibly optimal solution set is defined as a fuzzy set. It is shown that any possibly optimal solution can be represented by a convex combination of possibly optimal vertices. A method to enumerate all possibly optimal vertices with their membership degrees is developed. It is shown that, given a possibly optimal extreme point with a higher membership degree, the membership degree of an adjacent extreme point is calculated by solving a linear programming problem and that all possibly optimal vertices are enumerated sequentially by tracing adjacent possibly optimal extreme points from a possibly optimal extreme point with the highest membership degree.