Abstract
This paper considers linear programming problems (LPPs) where the objective functions involve discrete fuzzy random variables (fuzzy set-valued discrete random variables). New decision making models, which are useful in fuzzy stochastic environments, are proposed based on both possibility theory and probability theory. In multi-objective cases, Pareto optimal solutions of the proposed models are newly defined. Computational algorithms for obtaining the Pareto optimal solutions of the proposed models are provided. It is shown that problems involving discrete fuzzy random variables can be transformed into deterministic nonlinear mathematical programming problems which can be solved through a conventional mathematical programming solver under practically reasonable assumptions. A numerical example of agriculture production problems is given to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed models to real-world problems in fuzzy stochastic environments.
Highlights
One of the traditional tools for taking into consideration uncertainty of parameters involved in mathematical programming problems is stochastic programming [1,2]
Since decision makers (DMs) are not always optimistic in general, we introduce the following new optimization criterion based on necessity measures in order to construct an optimization criterion for pessimistic DMs: Definition 15. (Necessity-based probabilistic expectation (NPE))
We summarize an algorithm for obtaining a Pareto optimal solution of possibility-based probabilistic expectation model (PPE model) in the multi-objective case
Summary
One of the traditional tools for taking into consideration uncertainty of parameters involved in mathematical programming problems is stochastic programming [1,2]. We focus on mathematical optimization models in fuzzy stochastic decision making situations where possible realized values of random parameters in linear programming problems (LPPs) are ambiguously estimated by experts as fuzzy sets or fuzzy numbers. Such fuzzy set-valued random variables, namely, random parameters whose realized values are represented with fuzzy sets, can be expressed as fuzzy random variables [21,22,23,24,25,26].
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