%0 Journal Article %T A New Approach for Solving Grey Assignment Problems %J Control and Optimization in Applied Mathematics %I Payame Noor University (PNU) %Z 2383-3130 %A Nasseri, Hadi %A Darvishi Salokolaei, Davood %A Yazdani, Allahbakhsh %D 2017 %\ 04/01/2017 %V 2 %N 1 %P 15-28 %! A New Approach for Solving Grey Assignment Problems %K Assignment problem‎ %K ‎Grey system theory‎ %K ‎Grey number‎ %K ‎Uncertainty‎ %K ‎Whitening technique %R %X 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. %U https://mathco.journals.pnu.ac.ir/article_4820_ce1ebfe26971053cf5e43e7837555a8f.pdf