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Fuzzy Linear Programming in Practice: An Application to the Spanish Football League

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Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 254))

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FLP problems are perhaps one of the most and best studied topics of Soft Computing, and are among the most fruitful in applications and in theoretical and practical results. Areas of application of FLP problems are many and varied and in fact suppose an extraordinary example of technology transfer in action. In this paper, Fuzzy Linear Programming models are applied to the European football game in which the inherent uncertainty of the parameters relating to the football teams in the Spanish Football League serve to establish these models and so optimize the returns of the investments made to maintain a high quality competition. In this context, fuzzy DEA models are established which provide teams predictions as to their efficiency score. At the end of the study we offer some experiments using data from the Spanish Football League 2006/07.

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  1. Dept. Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

    J. M. Cadenas

  2. Dept. de Economía Financiera y Matemàtica, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    V. Liern & R. Sala

  3. Dept. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    J. L. Verdegay

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Cadenas, J.M., Liern, V., Sala, R., Verdegay, J.L. (2010). Fuzzy Linear Programming in Practice: An Application to the Spanish Football League. In: Lodwick, W.A., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Fuzzy Optimization. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 254. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13935-2_23

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