Development and optimization of unrestricted LR-type intuitionistic fuzzy mathematical programming problems

To the best of our knowledge, there is no method to find the product of unrestricted LR-type intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IFNs) as well as the optimal solutions of LR-type intuitionistic fuzzy linear programming problems (IFLPPs) in which some or all the decision variables are unrestricted. Therefore it is necessary to pay attention to this issue and there is need to find the product of unrestricted LR-type IFNs as well as the optimal solutions of such programming problems. In this paper, the product of unrestricted LR-type IFNs based on the α-cut, β-cut and (α, β)-cut is proposed. Then with the help of proposed product, a new method is proposed to find the optimal solutions of unrestricted LR-type IFLPPs. Finally, an illustrative example is given to support the proposed method and investigated the applicability of existing approaches exist in the literature.