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This chapter introduces some basic concepts from the fuzzy numbers theory. The main part of the chapter concerns the problem of performing arithmetic operations on independent fuzzy numbers. The remaining part is devoted to the problem of performing arithmetic operations on interactive fuzzy numbers. To cope with the dependency problem, stochastic simulation of fuzzy systems and non-linear programming approaches are proposed.

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    Beata Basiura, Jerzy Duda, Bartłomiej Gaweł, Janusz Opiła, Tomasz Pełech-Pilichowski, Bogdan Rębiasz & Iwona Skalna

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Basiura, . et al. (2015). Fuzzy Numbers. In: Advances in Fuzzy Decision Making. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 333. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26494-3_1

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