World Applied Sciences Journal 19 (12): 1731-1745, 2012
ISSN 1818? 4952
© IDOSI Publications, 2012
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wasj.2012.19.12.111
Corresponding Author: Dr. S. Abbasbandy, Department of Mathematics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad
University, Tehran, Iran
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A Solution of Arbitrary Fully Fuzzy Linear Systems
S. Abbasbandy, T. Allahviranloo and S. Moloudzadeh
Department of Mathematics, Science and Researh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract: In this paper, fully fuzzy linear systems in the form
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A X=b (FFLS) will be discussed, where
nn A × is a fuzzy matrix, x and b are (n × 1) fuzzy vector. Transforming fully fuzzy linear system in to two
crisp linear systems and using the Jacobi iterative and Adomian Decomposition Methods (ADM) a FFLS
will be solved.We will show that to find a solution for a (FFLS) our method needs lees iterations in
comparison with the Jacobi iterative and Adomian decomposition to the Dehghan methods. For a FFLS it is
shown that the ADM is equivalent to the Jacobi iterative method with the less iteration.
Key words: LR fuzzy number • fuzzy matrix • fuzzy arithmetic • Fully Fuzzy Linear System (FFLS) •
Jacobi iterative method • Adomian decomposition method
INTRODUCTION
Systems of linear equations are used to solve many problems in various areas such as structural mechanic
applications in civil and mechanical structures, heat transport, fluid flow, electromagnetism and etc. In many
applications, at least one of the system's parameters and measurements are vague or imprecise and we can present
them with fuzzy numbers rather than crisp numbers. Hence, it is important to develop mathematical models and
numerical procedure that would appropriately treat general fuzzy systems and solve them.
Fuzzy linear system Ax = b, where A is a crisp matrix and b is a fuzzy number vector have been solved by
Friedman and his colleagues. Using the embedding approach Friedman et al . proposed a general model to solving
such a fuzzy linear systems [5, 18, 19], indeed in this way whenever a solution is obtained, the original n× n fuzzy
linear system is replaced by a 2n × 2n crisp linear system. They also derived conditions for the existence of a unique
fuzzy solution for (FSLE) and designed a numerical procedure to calculating the solution. So far many works have
been done to find the solution of the 2n × 2n crisp linear systems [2-5, 10, 16, 24, 25]. Of course a lot of works with
different methods have been done in this regard, among these some works have been done in which all parameters in
the fuzzy linear system are fuzzy numbers and we call it Fully Fuzzy Linear System (FFLS) [6, 12-15, 22, 23].
Here we will solve Ax = b, where A is a fuzzy matrix and x and b are fuzzy vectors. We will use fuzzy matrix
defined in [17]. This class of fuzzy matrices consist of applicable matrices, which uncertain aspects can be modeled
by them and working on them are too limited. Buckley and Qu [12] took the α-levels of the equations and obtained
linear systems of interval equations. The exact solution of FFLS can be found by solving these interval systems.
Muzzioli and Reynaerts in [22] studied FFLS of the form A
1
x + b
1
= A
2
x + b
2
. The link between interval linear
systems and fuzzy linear systems is have been clarified by them. Their approach contains solving of 2
n(n+1)
crisp
systems for all α [0,1]. However, the classical solution to an FFLS often fails to exist [23]. Dehghan et al . [13-15]
has studied some methods for solving FFLS. They have represented fuzzy numbers in LR form and applied
approximate operators between fuzzy numbers to find positive solutions of FFLS, so calculating the solutions of
FFLS is transformed to calculation the solutions of three crisp systems. To finding a non-zero solution for the
FFLS, Allahviranloo et al . [6] introduced an algorithm. In this algorithm at first n× n fully fuzzy linear system Ax =
b is transformed in to a 2n × 4n fuzzy linear system, then again it is transformed in to a 2n × 2n parametric system.
Allahviranloo et al . [8, 9] proposed a new method to obtain symmetric solutions (bounded and symmetric
solutions) of a fully fuzzy linear systems (FFLS) based on a 1-cut expansion. Liu proposed [21] a solution of
FFLS by developing them to a block of HPM to find an approximation of the solution. The numerical results
display that the block HPM converges to the exact solution rapidly than the direct method and the iterative
Jacobi and Gauss-seidel methods in solving the FFLS.