Perturbed parameters are considered in a hypoplastic model of granular materials. For fixed parameters, the model response to a periodic stress loading and unloading converges to a limit state of strain. The focus of this contribution is the assessment of the change in the limit strain caused by varying model parameters.
The logistics problems in business environments deal with assignation from a number of sources to a number of destinations. Each source offers amounts of goods, while each destination demands quantities of these goods. The object is to find the cheapest transporting schedule that satisfies the demand without violating supply restraints. In this paper we propose to use Fuzzy Sets to represent the previsional information related to costs, demands and other variables. Moreover, we suggest including...
In the domain of Computing with words (CW), fuzzy linguistic approaches are known to be relevant in many decision-making problems. Indeed, they allow us to model the human reasoning in replacing words, assessments, preferences, choices, wishes... by ad hoc variables, such as fuzzy sets or more sophisticated variables. This paper focuses on a particular model: Herrera and Martínez' 2-tuple linguistic model and their approach to deal with unbalanced linguistic term sets. It is interesting since the...