In this work, we demonstrate analytical and numerically the relation between two methods, Trappey et al. (1988) and Xu (1989), found in the literature. These methods were developed to solve nonlinear programming problems with uncertainties in the set of constraints. A comparative analysis of the performance between classic and fuzzy nonlinear optimization methods are presented too in the work. For the comparison, two problems are modeled that had been shaped in terms of classic nonlinear programming, which allow the introduction of uncertainties in its formularizations. Based on the analysis of the problem proposed in Xu (1989), we verified that the two described methods provide similar results, as per some conditions.
fuzzy set; nonlinear optimization; fuzzy mathematical programming
