Parallel and hierarchical decomposition approaches for solving large-scale Data Envelopment Analysis models

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 73, Issue , 1997, Pages 339-372

  Barr, Richard S ^a   Durchholz, Matthew L ^b  

^a Southern Methodist University   (United States)

^b i2 Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; Decomposition; Mathematical programming; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031476829     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018941531019     Document Type: Article

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