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The purpose of this paper is to develop an effective methodology for solving constrained matrix games with payoffs of trapezoidal fuzzy numbers (TrFNs), which are a type of two-person non-cooperative games with payoffs expressed by TrFNs and players’ strategies being constrained. In this methodology, it is proven that any Alfa-constrained matrix game has an interval-type value and hereby any constrained matrix game with payoffs of TrFNs has a TrFN-type value. The auxiliary linear programming models are derived to compute the interval-type value of any Alfa-constrained matrix game and players’ optimal strategies. Thereby the TrFN-type value of any constrained matrix game with payoffs of TrFNs can be directly obtained through solving the derived four linear programming models with data taken from only 1-cut and 0-cut of TrFN-type payoffs. Validity and applicability of the models and method proposed in this paper are demonstrated with a numerical example of the market share game problem.
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Li, DF., Hong, FX. Alfa-cut based linear programming methodology for constrained matrix games with payoffs of trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. Fuzzy Optim Decis Making 12, 191–213 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10700-012-9148-3
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