Fuzzy stochastic optimization: Theory, models and applications

Fuzzy Stochastic Optimization: Theory, Models and Applications

Volumn 9781441995605, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-248

  Wang, Shuming ^a   Watada, Junzo ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKERS; FUZZY RANDOM VARIABLE; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION MODEL; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATIONS; THEORETICAL ASPECTS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84949179392     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9560-5     Document Type: Book

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