Interactive fuzzy linear programming (Q1192477)

The authors present an interesting synthesis of different linear programming techniques, all including fuzziness features of some kind. First, five typical problems are sketched, referring to different authors, illustrating a variety of approaches to fuzziness. Points of differences are whether or not the objective function and the constraints are fuzzy and whether or not values and tolerances for the fuzzy goals and resources can be given a priori. All of these variations are then build in a comprehensive interactive algorithm, allowing for many alternative routes, according to the intentions, experiences and secondary goals of the decision maker. The many facilities provided by the algorithm offer to the decision maker a learning tool allowing him also to integrate supplementary considerations that could not be included in a necessarily oversimplified linear model. Although the theoretical approach is not original (compilation from a set of the authors) the interactive implementation looks very attractive and provide a nice demonstration of the potential of fuzzy programming.