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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Fuzzy Systems Volume 2012, Article ID 318069, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2012/318069 Research Article Fuzzy Symmetric Solutions of Fuzzy Matrix Equations Xiaobin Guo1 and Dequan Shang2 1 College of Mathematics and Information Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China 2 Department of Public Courses, Gansu College of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou 730000, China Correspondence should be addressed to Xiaobin Guo, guoxb@ Received 3 April 2012; Accepted 29 April 2012 Academic Editor: F. Herrera Copyright © 2012 X. Guo and D. Shang. 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. The fuzzy symmetric solution of fuzzy matrix equation AX = B, in which A is a crisp m × m nonsingular matrix and B is an m × n fuzzy numbers matrix with nonzero spreads, is investigated. The fuzzy matrix equation is converted to a fuzzy system of linear equations according to the Kronecker product of matrices. From solving the fuzzy linear system, three types of fuzzy symmetric solutions of the fuzzy matrix equation are derived. Finally, two examples are given to illustrate the proposed method. 1. Introduction has a wide use in control theory and control engineering, few works have been done in the past decades. In 2010, Guo Linear systems always have important applications in many et al. [22–24] investigated a class of fuzzy matrix equations b