Detecting financial sustainability risk of the assets using MAMDANI fuzzy controller
Abstract
The paper aims to develop a MAMDANI fuzzy controller for detecting the financial sustainability risk of the assets owned by the company. This type of risk indicates when an asset no longer produces economic benefits to the company, or the benefits are small enough to no longer justify the asset maintaining in working order. The proposed fuzzy controller has as input variables the asset operating expenses and the variation of this category of expenses from one analysis period to another. The controller's objective function is to keep operating costs at their initial state and thus reducing the financial sustainability risk. The controller's output variable is represented by the economic benefits variation, considered to be an essential component in the financial sustainability risk analysis. The obtained results were interpreted taking into account the objective function of the controller as well as the evolution of the input variables. Two simulations for fuzzy controllers were made, with the mention that the variation ranges for the input variables were delimited. In practice, fuzzy controllers can be generated according to company policies to keep under control the expense categories that accompany the asset exploitation.
First published online 16 July 2019
Keyword : MAMDANI fuzzy controller, financial sustainability risk, assets, simulation
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