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International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications
Volume 7 • Issue 4 • October-December 2018

PSK Method for Solving Intuitionistic

Fuzzy Solid Transportation Problems
P.Senthil Kumar, Department of Humanities and Sciences, Navodaya Institute of Technology, Raichur, India

ABSTRACT

This article proposes a method for solving intuitionistic fuzzy solid transportation problems (IFSTPs)
in which only the transportation costs are represented in terms of intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IFNs).
The remaining parameters, namely: supply, demand and conveyance capacity, are all considered into
crisp numbers. This type of STP is called a type-2 IFSTP. When solving the real life solid transportation
problems (STPs) those tend to face the uncertainty state as well as hesitation due to many uncontrollable
factors. To deal with uncertainty and hesitation many authors have suggested the intuitionistic fuzzy
representation for the data. In this article, the author tried to categorise the STPs under the uncertain
environment. He formulates the intuitionistic fuzzy STPs and utilizes the triangular intuitionistic
fuzzy number (TIFN) to deal with uncertainty and hesitation. The PSK (P.Senthil Kumar) method for
finding an intuitionistic fuzzy optimal solution for fully intuitionistic fuzzy transportation problem
(FIFTP) is extended to solve the type-2 IFSTP and the optimal objective value of type-2 IFSTP is
obtained in terms of TIFN. The main advantage of this method is that the optimal solution of type-2
IFSTP is obtained without using the basic feasible solution and the method of testing optimality.
Moreover, the proposed method is computationally very simple and easy to understand. A case study
is presented to illustrate the procedure of the proposed method.

Keywords
Fully Intuitionistic Fuzzy Solid Transportation Problem, Intuitionistic Fuzzy Number, Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set,
Optimal Solution, PSK Method, Triangular Intuitionistic Fuzzy Number, Type-2 Intuitionistic Fuzzy Solid
Transportation Problem

1. INTRODUCTION

The transportation problem is a special class of linear programming problem, widely used in the
areas of inventory control, communication network, aggregate planning, employment scheduling,
personal management and so on. In several real-life situations, there is a need for shipping the product
from different origins (Factories) to different destinations (Warehouses). The transportation problem
deals with shipping commodities from different origins to various destinations. The objective of the
transportation problem is to determine the optimum amount of a commodity to be transported from
various supply points (origins) to different demand points (destinations) so that the total transportation
cost is minimum or total transportation profit is maximum. A minimization transportation problem
involves cost data, in this case, the objective of solution is to minimize the total cost. On the other
hand, a maximization transportation problem involves sales, revenue or profit data, in this case, the
objective of solution is to maximize the total profit. The unit costs/profits, that is, the cost/profit
of transporting one unit from a particular supply point to a particular demand point, the amounts

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available at the supply points and the amounts required at the demand points are the parameters of
the transportation problem.
In the history of mathematics, Hitchcock (1941) originally developed a basic transportation
problem. The transportation algorithm for solving transportation problems with equality constraints
introduced by Dantzig (1963) is the simplex method specialized to the format of a table called
transportation table. It involves two steps. First, we compute an initial basic feasible solution for
the transportation problem and then, we test optimality and look at improving the basic feasible
solution to the transportation problem. An Introduction to Operations Research Taha (2008) deals the
transportation problem where all the parameters are crisp number. Xie et al. (2017) presented an upper
bound on the minimal total cost of the transportation problem with varying demands and supplies.
The solid transportation problem is a generalization of the classical transportation problem in
which three-dimensional properties are taken into account in the objective and constraint set instead
of source (origin) and destination. Shell (1955) stated an extension of well-known transportation
problem is called a solid transportation problem in which bounds are given on three items, namely,
supply, demand and conveyance. In many industrial problems, a homogeneous product is transported
from an origin to a destination by means of different modes of transport called conveyances, such as
trucks, cargo flights, goods trains, ships and so on. Haley (1962) presented the solution procedure
for solving solid transportation problem, which is an extension of the modified distribution method.
Patel and Tripathy (1989) proposed a computationally superior method for a solid transportation
problem with mixed constraints. Basu et al. (1994) developed an algorithm for finding the optimum
solution of a solid fixed charge linear transportation problem.
For finding an optimal solution, the solid transportation problem requires m + n + l − 2 non-
negative values of the decision variables to start with a basic feasible solution. Jimenez and Verdegay
(1996) investigated interval multiobjective solid transportation problem via genetic algorithms. Li
et al. (1997a) designed a neural network approach for a multicriteria solid transportation problem.
Efficient algorithms have been developed for solving transportation problems when the coefficient
of the objective function, demand, supply and conveyance values are known precisely.
Many of the distribution or optimization problems are imprecise in nature in today’s world such as
in corporate or in industry due to variations in the parameters. In this case, the use of ordinary (crisp)
set theory is not possible. So, to deal quantitatively with imprecise information in making decision,
Zadeh (1965) introduced the fuzzy set theory and has applied it successfully in various fields. The
use of fuzzy set theory becomes very rapid in the field of optimization after the pioneering work done
by Bellman and Zadeh (1970). Crisp sets are the sets that we have used most of our life. In a crisp
set, an element is either a member of the set or not. Fuzzy sets, on the other hand, allow elements to
be partially in a set. Each element is given a degree of membership in a set. This membership value
can range from 0 (not an element of the set) to 1 (a member of the set). It is clear that if one only
allowed the extreme membership values of 0 and 1, that this would actually be equivalent to crisp
sets. A membership function is the relationship between the values of an element and its degree of
membership in a set. In a fuzzy set the membership value (level of acceptance or level of satisfaction)
lies between 0 and 1 where as in crisp set the element belongs to the set represent 1 and the element
not in the set represent 0. Due to the special features of fuzzy set theory, it has been used in numerous
fields such as power engineering, consumer electronics, industrial automation, optimization, robotics
and control systems engineering.
Due to the lack of certainty in the parameters of a crisp transportation problem, several authors
have studied the problem of transportation in fuzzy environment such as Dinagar and Palanivel
(2009), Pandian and Natarajan (2010), Mohideen and Kumar (2010). Gupta et al. (2016) presented
a note on “A new method for solving fuzzy linear programming problems based on the fuzzy linear
complementary problem”. Kumar (2016a, b) formulated the fuzzy transportation problems in four
different situations and proposed a method namely PSK method for solving the formulated fuzzy
transportation problems. Jana et al. (2017) presented mean and CV reduction methods on Gaussian

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P.Senthil Kumar (Department of Humanities and Sciences, Navodaya Institute of

Technology, Raichur, India)

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Kumar, P. Senthil. "PSK Method for Solving Intuitionistic Fuzzy Solid Transportation
Problems." International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications (IJFSA) 7.4 (2018): 62-99.
doi:10.4018/IJFSA.2018100104

APA
Kumar, P. S. (2018). PSK Method for Solving Intuitionistic Fuzzy Solid Transportation
Problems. International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications (IJFSA), 7(4), 62-99.
doi:10.4018/IJFSA.2018100104

Chicago

Kumar, P. Senthil. "PSK Method for Solving Intuitionistic Fuzzy Solid Transportation
Problems." International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications (IJFSA) 7, no. 4 (2018): 62-
99. doi:10.4018/IJFSA.2018100104

Harvard

Kumar, P.S., 2018. PSK Method for Solving Intuitionistic Fuzzy Solid Transportation
Problems. International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications (IJFSA), 7(4), pp.62-99.
doi:10.4018/IJFSA.2018100104

Vancouver

Kumar PS. PSK Method for Solving Intuitionistic Fuzzy Solid Transportation Problems.
International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications (IJFSA). 2018 Oct 1;7(4):62-99.
doi:10.4018/IJFSA.2018100104
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Figure 1. Graphical Representation of type-2 IFSTC

0, forc < 35


c − 35
 , for 35 ≤ c ≤ 70
 35
µZI (c ) = 1, forc = 70

105 − c
 , for70 ≤ c ≤105

 35
0, for c >105

1, forc < 9

 70 − c
 , for 9 ≤ c ≤ 70
 61
ϑZI (c ) = 0, for c = 70

c − 70
 , for 70 ≤ c ≤ 131
 61
1, for c > 131

7. CONCLUSION

The author proposes a intuitionistic fuzzy decision making method for the type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy
solid transportation problems. A case study is presented to illustrate the procedure of the proposed
method. The type-2 IFSTPs are solved by the proposed method which differs from the existing
methods namely, intuitionistic fuzzy modified distribution method and intuitionistic fuzzy zero point
method. The main advantage of this method is that the obtained solution is always optimal. Theorems
have been proved to substantiate that all the solutions obtained by using PSK method are optimal /

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efficient. To apply this method, there is no necessity to have (m + n + l − 2) number of non-negative

allotted entries (i.e., basic feasible solution). Also, we need not test the optimality condition. It is
applicable to type-1, type-2, type-3 and type-4 IFSTPs. The proposed method can help decision-
makers in the logistics related issues of real-life problems by aiding them in the decision-making
process and providing an optimal solution in a simple and effective manner. Further, it can be served
as an important tool for a decision-maker when he/she handles various types of logistic problems
having different types of parameters.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The author sincerely thanks the anonymous reviewers and Editor-in-Chief ‘Professor Deng-Feng
Li’ for their careful reading, constructive comments and fruitful suggestions. The author would
also like to acknowledge Dr. S. Ismail Mohideen, Principal, My Guide and Associate Professor Dr.
R. Jahir Hussain, Dr. A. Nagoor Gani, Associate Professor, Dr. K. Ramanaiah, Associate Professor
(retired), Mr. N. Shamsudeen, Associate Professor (retired), Jamal Mohamed College (Autonomous),
Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India for their motivation and kind support.

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P. Senthil Kumar is an Associate Professor (Mathematics) in Department of Humanities and Sciences at Navodaya
Institute of Technology, Raichur, Karnataka, India. He has seven years (approximately) of teaching experience. He
received his BSc, MSc and MPhil from Jamal Mohamed College, Tiruchirappalli in 2006, 2008, 2010 respectively.
He completed his BEd in Jamal Mohamed College of Teacher Education in 2009. He completed PGDCA in 2011
in the Bharathidasan University and PGDAOR in 2012 in the Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India. He has
done his Ph.D titled “Algorithmic approach for solving allocation problems under intuitionistic fuzzy environment”
at Jamal Mohamed College in 2017. He has published many research papers in referred national and international
journals like Springer, Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems, IGI Global, Inderscience, etc. He has published two
book chapters in IGI Global publication. He also presented his research paper in Elsevier Conference Proceedings
(ICMS-2014), MMASC-2012, etc. His areas of research interest include fuzzy optimization, intuitionistic fuzzy
optimization, operations research, numerical analysis and graph theory, etc.

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