Control and Optimization
Davood Darvishi Salookolaei; Sifeng Liu; Parvin Babaei
Volume 2, Issue 2 , December 2017, , Pages 15-32
Abstract
Considering the fact that Iran is situated in an arid and semi-arid region, rainfall prediction for the management of water resources is very important and necessary. Researchers have proposed various prediction methods that have been utilized in such areas as water and meteorology, especially water ...
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Considering the fact that Iran is situated in an arid and semi-arid region, rainfall prediction for the management of water resources is very important and necessary. Researchers have proposed various prediction methods that have been utilized in such areas as water and meteorology, especially water resources management. The present study aimed at predicting rainfall amounts using Grey Prediction Method. It is a novel approach in confrontation with uncertainties in the aquiferous region of Babolrud to serve for the water resources management purposes. Therefore, expressing the concepts of Grey Prediction Methods using the collected data, at a 12-year timeframe of 2006 and 2017, rainfall prediction in 2018 and 2022 were also implemented with three methods GM(1,1), DGM(2,1) and Verhulest models. According to the calculated error and the predictive power, GM(1,1) method is better than other models and was placed within the set of good predictions. Also, we predict that in 2027, there might be a drought. According to the small samples and calculations required in this approach, the method is suggested for rainfall prediction in inexact environments. The authors can use fuzzy grey systems to predict the amount of rainfall in uncertaint environments.
Control and Optimization
Hadi Nasseri; Davood Darvishi Salokolaei; Allahbakhsh Yazdani
Volume 2, Issue 1 , April 2017, , Pages 15-28
Abstract
Linear assignment problem is one of the most important practical models in the literature of linear programming problems. Input data in the cost matrix of the linear assignment problem are not always crisp and sometimes in the practical situations is formulated by the grey systems theory approach. ...
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Linear assignment problem is one of the most important practical models in the literature of linear programming problems. Input data in the cost matrix of the linear assignment problem are not always crisp and sometimes in the practical situations is formulated by the grey systems theory approach. In this way, some researchers have used a whitening technique to solve the grey assignment problem. Since the whitening technique only provides a crisp equivalent model and does not reflect the evolutionary characteristics of a grey set, it cannot keep the uncertainty properties in an interval involving the optimal solution. Based on these shortcomings, in this paper a new direct approach is introduced to solve linear assignment problem in grey environments. For preparing the mentioned method, some theoretical results are given to support the methodology. Finally, a numerical example will be solved to test the validity of the proposed method. Based on the suggested methodology, we emphasize that the same approach can be used whenever any linear programming model is formulated in grey environments.