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At the turn of the century, reducing complex real-world systems into precise mathematical models was the main trend in science and engineering. In the middle of this century, Operations Research (OR) began to be applied to real-world decision-making problems and thus became one of the most important fields in science and engineering. Unfortunately, real-world situations are often not so deterministic. Thus precise mathematical models are not enough to tackle all practical problems.
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Lai, YJ., Hwang, CL. (1992). Introduction. In: Fuzzy Mathematical Programming. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 394. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48753-8_1
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