Relationships between data envelopment analysis and multicriteria decision analysis

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 654-665

  Stewart, Theodor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Multicriteria decision making

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; VALUE ENGINEERING;

DATA DEVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; LINEAR VALUE FUNCTION; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; PARETO OPTIMALITY; WEIGHT SENSITIVITY;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0030150815     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.1996.77     Document Type: Article

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