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INTRODUCTION
Systems of linear equations play a major role in various
areas such as operational research, physics, statistics,
engineering and social sciences. In many applications,
the parameters of linear equation systems are not always exactly known and stable. This imprecision may
follow from the lack of exact information, changeable
economic conditions, etc.. A frequently used way of
expressing the imprecision is to use the fuzzy numbers
rather than the crisp numbers. It enables us to consider
tolerances for parameters of linear equation systems
(the entries of the coefficient matrix and right hand
side vector) in a more natural and direct way. Therefore,
fuzzy linear equation systems seem to be more realistic
and reliable than the crisp case.
This study has attempted to provide a short review
of notable papers on fuzzy linear equation systems with
a basic structural classification. Considering the vast
literature, we only aim to present the most cited and
leading papers for each classification. Our short review
will give a general framework about the progression
of the subject and its solution approaches.
BACKGROUND
Wide range of real world applications in many areas
including financial engineering, scientific management
and engineering technology are using linear equation
systems for modeling and solving their respective
problems. In many situations, the estimation of the
system parameters is imprecise because of the lack
of exact information, environmental and changeable
economic conditions, etc. The uncertainty of parameters involved in the process of actual mathematical
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Category:
A
Short Review
Systems
of Fuzzy
and Software
Linear Equation
Engineering
Systems
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SQUARE SYSTEMS
Ax = b
Ax = b ,
A Short
Category:
ReviewSystems
of Fuzzyand
Linear
Software
Equation
Engineering
Systems
Iterative Methods
Direct Methods
Buckley and Qu (1991a) constructs solutions to the
fuzzy matrix equation
A x = b
x + b = A x + b , with A = A A and
and A
1
1
2
2
1
2
have
the
same
vector
solutions,
where
b = b2 b1
tor solution and show that the linear systems
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Category:
A
Short Review
Systems
of Fuzzy
and Software
Linear Equation
Engineering
Systems
Iterative Methods
Dehghan and Hashemi (2006b) extends the Adomian
decomposition method for solving FFLS to find a
= b . They
positive fuzzy vector x that satisfies Ax
employ approximate arithmetic operators on LR fuzzy
numbers, use the Adomian decomposition method and
compare this method with the Jacobi iterative technique.
Dehghan, Hashemi and Ghatee (2007) focuses on
the positive solution of FFLS with some well-known
iterative methods such as Jacobi, GaussSeidel, SOR,
AOR, SSOR, USSOR and EMA. In addition, the methods of Newton, quasi-Newton and conjugate gradient
are applied to FFLS.
Otadi and Mosleh (2011) is one of the many different attempts to derive learning algorithms of fuzzy
neural networks with fuzzy input, fuzzy output and
fuzzy weights. The effectiveness of the derived learning
algorithm is demonstrated by computer simulation of
numerical examples.
NONSQUARE SYSTEMS
Fuzzy Linear Equation Systems
Direct Methods
Asady, Abbasbandy and Alavi (2005) develops a
method for solving m x n FLS for m n using the
same approach in Friedman, Ming and Kandel (1998).
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Iterative Methods
Abbasbandy, Jafarian and Ezzati (2005) and Abbasbandy and Jafarian (2006) apply the conjugate
gradient method and the steepest descent method for
approximation of the unique solution of FLS, respectively. They also give the convergence theorem of the
proposed algorithms and illustrate them by solving
some numerical examples.
Ghanbari and Mahdavi-Amiri (2010) firstly introduces the use of a ranking function to define a compromised solution for nonsquare FLS and then proposes a
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