%0 Journal Article %T UNA APROXIMACI¨®N DE N¨²MEROS DIFUSOS DE TIPO TRAPEZOIDAL %A Chalco-Cano %A Y %A Pedraza Arpasi %A J %A Rom¨¢n-Flores %A H %A ¨¢lvarez-J¨¢uregui %A G %J Ingeniare. Revista chilena de ingenier¨ªa %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-33052009000200004 %X in this paper present an approximation for a trapezoidal type fuzzy number by a sequence of ¦Å-differentiable fuzzy numbers, i.e. fuzzy numbers with differentiable membership function in the interior of the ¦Å-level. the process consists on the construction of a differentiable fuzzy number using sup-min-convolution of a fuzzy number with a quasi-gaussian fuzzy number. this work shows some numerical examples and a computational algorithm for this process. %K fuzzy number %K trapezoidal type fuzzy number %K approximation of fuzzy numbers. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-33052009000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en