Intuitionistic Fuzzy LPP Unbalanced Transportation Problem

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate transportation problem in which cost coefficients are triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. In conventional transportation problem, cost is always certain. This paper develops an approach to solve an intuitionistic fuzzy transportation problem where cost is not deterministic numbers but imprecise ones. Here, the elements of the costs (profits) matrix of the transportation problem are triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. Then its triangular shaped membership and non- membership functions are defined. A new ranking procedure which can be found in [12] and is used to compare the intuitionistic fuzzy numbers so that an Intuitionistic Fuzzy MVAM method may be applied to solve the intuitionistic fuzzy transportation problem. Numerical examples show that an intuitionistic fuzzy ranking method offers an effective tool for handling an intuitionistic fuzzy transportation problem.