Estimating non-convex production sets - imposing convex input sets and output sets in data envelopment analysis

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 132-142

  Post, Thierry ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); NON-CONVEX PRODUCTION SETS;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0035341649     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(00)00053-9     Document Type: Article

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