Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 260490, 17 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/260490
Research Article

A Graphical Method for Solving Interval Matrix Games

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Anadolu University, 26470 Eskisehir, Turkey

Received 10 January 2011; Accepted 26 April 2011

Academic Editor: Marcia Federson

Copyright © 2011 Handan Akyar and Emrah Akyar. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

2 × 𝑛 or 𝑚 × 2 interval matrix games are considered, and a graphical method for solving such games is given. Interval matrix game is the interval generation of classical matrix games. Because of uncertainty in real-world applications, payoffs of a matrix game may not be a fixed number. Since the payoffs may vary within a range for fixed strategies, an interval-valued matrix can be used to model such uncertainties. In the literature, there are different approaches for the comparison of fuzzy numbers and interval numbers. In this work, the idea of acceptability index is used which is suggested by Sengupta et al. (2001) and Sengupta and Pal (2009), and in view of acceptability index, well-known graphical method for matrix games is adapted to interval matrix games.