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Determining relative efficiency of slightly non-homogeneous decision making units by data envelopment analysis: a case study in IROST

Applied Mathematics and ComputationPublished 17 August 2004
Reza Farzipoor Saen, Azizollah Memariani, Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfı
Citations71
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SJR score0.89
SNIP1.40

TL;DR

This paper proposes a method of determining relative efficiency of slightly non-homogeneous DMUs by using DEA by first missing values are inserted by series mean, then relative weights of DMUs are measured by Analytic Hierarchy Process and finally relative efficiency is computed by chance-constrained DEA.

Abstract

The assumption of classical Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models is based on complete homogeneity of Decision Making Units (DMUs). The objective of this paper is to propose a method of determining relative efficiency of slightly non-homogeneous DMUs by using DEA. First missing values are inserted by series mean. Then relative weights of DMUs are measured by Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and finally relative efficiency of DMUs is computed by chance-constrained DEA. A case study demonstrates the application of the proposed method.

Keywords

Decision SciencesEngineering