Article ID: | iaor1997955 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 81 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 31 |
End Page Number: | 45 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1996 |
Journal: | Fuzzy Sets and Systems |
Authors: | Kacprzyk Janusz, Esogbue Augustine O. |
Keywords: | programming: dynamic |
The authors survey major developments and applications of fuzzy dynamic programming which is here advocated as a promising attempt at making dynamic programming models more realistic by a relaxation of often artificial assumptions of precision as to the constraints, goals, states and their transitions, termination time, etc. Issues related to numerical efficiency are considered. Applications in R&D planning, health care and medicine, socioeconomic regional development, energy systems, water and environmental systems, chemical engineering, etc. are surveyed.