Trapezoidal Intuitionistic Fuzzy Number with some arithmetic operations and its application on reliability evaluation

International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 55-73

  Shaw, A K ^a   Roy, T K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Fuzzy set; IFN; Intuitionistic fuzzy number; System reliability; Trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy number; TrIFN

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878147094     PISSN: 17575850     EISSN: 17575869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMOR.2013.050512     Document Type: Article

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