A New Method Based on Goal Programming for Solving Transportation Problem with Fuzzy Cost

Author

Li, Lingyun ; Huang, Zuqing ; Da, Qingli ; Hu, Jinsong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Southeast Univ., Nanjing

fYear

2008

fDate

23-25 May 2008

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Factors affecting the shipping cost were not considered in conventional transportation problem. Using the calculation formula of two fuzzy numbers stemmed from the solution of fuzzy equation based on goal programming, the shipping cost of conventional transportation problem is considered and the tabular method for conventional transportation is developed to fuzzy environment in this paper. The optimal solution of fuzzy transportation problem is obtained successfully by using this tabular method. Compared with the result of conventional transportation problem, the result acquired by our method is more advantaged for decision makers.

Keywords

costing; fuzzy set theory; mathematical programming; transportation; fuzzy cost; fuzzy equation; goal programming; shipping cost; tabular method; transportation problem; Cost function; Difference equations; Environmental economics; Functional programming; Information processing; Linear programming; Logistics; Probability distribution; Transportation; Upper bound;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Processing (ISIP), 2008 International Symposiums on

Conference_Location

Moscow

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3151-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIP.2008.9

Filename

4554047