Neutrosophic Linear Programming Problems

Smarandache presented neutrosophic theory as a tool for handling undetermined information. Wang et al. introduced a single valued neutrosophic set that is a special neutrosophic sets and can be used expediently to deal with real-world problems, especially in decision support.

The most widely used technique for solving and optimizing a real-life problem is linear programming (LP), due to its implicity and efficiency. However, in order to handle the impreciseness in the data, the neutrosophic set theory plays a vital role which makes a simulation of the decision-making process of humans by considering all aspects of decision (i.e., agree, not sure and disagree).

In this chapter, a solution procedure is proposed to solve neutrosophic linear fractional programming (NLFP) problem where cost of the objective function, the resources and the technological coefficients are triangular neutrosophic numbers.

Smarandache presented neutrosophic theory as a tool for handling undetermined information, and together with Wang et al. introduced single valued neutrosophic sets that is a special neutrosophic set and can be used expediently to deal with real-world problems, especially in decision support. In this paper, we propose linear programming problems based on neutrosophic environment. Neutrosophic sets characterized by three independent parameters, namely truth-membership degree (T), indeterminacy-membership degree (I) and falsity-membership degree (F), which is more capable to handle imprecise parameters. We also transform the neutrosophic linear programming problem into a crisp programming model by using neutrosophic set parameters. To measure the efficiency of our proposed model we solved several numerical examples.

In this paper, a solution procedure is proposed to solve neutrosophic linear Fractional Programming Problem.

Because of uncertainty in the real-world problems, achieving to the optimal solution is always time consuming and even sometimes impossible. In order to overcome this drawback the neutrosophic sets theory which is a generalization of the fuzzy sets theory is presented that can handle not only incomplete information but also indeterminate and inconsistent information which is common in real-world situations.

Linear Programming (LP) is an essential approach in mathematical programming because it is a viable technique used for addressing linear systems involving linear parameters and continuous constraints. The most important use of LP resides in solving the issues requiring resource management. Because many real-world issues are too complicated to be accurately characterized, indeterminacy is often present in every engineering planning process. Neutrosophic logic, which is an application of intuitionistic fuzzy sets, is a useful logic for dealing with indeterminacy. Neutrosophic Linear Programming (NLP) issues are essential in neutrosophic modelling because they may express uncertainty in the physical universe. Numerous techniques have been proposed to alleviate NLP difficulties. On the surface, the current approaches in the specialized literature are unable to tackle issues with non-deterministic variables. In other words, no method for solving a truly neutrosophic problem has been offered. For the first time, a unique approach is provided for tackling Fully Neutrosophic Linear Programming (FNLP) problems in this study. The proposed study uses a decomposition method to break the FNLP problem into three separate bounded problems. Then, these problems are solved using simplex techniques. Unlike other existing methods, the proposed method can solve NLP problems with neutrosophic values for variables. In this research, the decision-makers have the freedom to consider the variables with neutrosophic structure, while obtaining the optimal objective value as a crisp number. It should also be noted that the typical NLP problems, which can be solved by means of the existing methods, can also be solved through the method proposed in this paper.

Neutrosophic set is considered as a generalized of crisp set, fuzzy set, and intuitionistic fuzzy set for representing the uncertainty, inconsistency, and incomplete knowledge about the real world problems. In this paper, a neutrosophic linear programming (NLP) problem with single-valued trapezoidal neutrosophic numbers is formulated and solved. A new method based on the so-called score function to find the neutrosophic optimal solution of fully neutrosophic linear programming (FNLP) problem is proposed.