NEAREST SYMMETRIC TRAPEZOIDAL FUZZY NUMBER APPROXIMATION PRESERVING EXPECTED INTERVAL
Fuzzy number approximation has been investigated by many researchers. It is still useful to develop new approximations in order to better fit real world problems. This paper proposes a method for symmetric trapezoidal fuzzy number approximation which preserves the expected interval. Some properties of approximation are proved and a fuzzy partition is generated by using the proposed method.
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