Parvathi & Malathi (Intuitionistic fuzzy simplex method, International Journal of Computer Applications, 48, 39-48, 2012) proposed an intuitionistic fuzzy simplex algorithm to solve Intuitionistic Fuzzy Linear Programming Problems (IFLPPs) with Symmetric Trapezoidal Intuitionistic Fuzzy Numbers (STIFNs) by using a special ranking function and used the linearity property to obtain the desired results. In this paper, it is proved that the linearity property, used by authors, is not satisfied for given ranking function. So, to overcome this drawback, a new method is proposed to solve the same type of intuitionistic fuzzy linear programming problems. Keywords: Intuitionistic fuzzy linear programming problems, Symmetric trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy numbers, Ranking function
