An AHP/DEA methodology for ranking decision making units

International Transactions in Operational Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 109-124

  Sinuany Stern, Z ^a   Mehrez, A ^a   Hadad, Y ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchical process (AHP); Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Decision theory; Efficiency; Multi criteria decision analysis (MCDA); Ranking; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000721259     PISSN: 09696016     EISSN: 14753995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-3995.2000.tb00189.x     Document Type: Article

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