Using DEA to measure the relative efficiency of the service center and improve operation efficiency through reorganization

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 366-373

  Chien, Chen Fu ^a   Lo, Feng Yu ^a,b   Lin, James T ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIWAN POWER COMPANY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Power systems; Relative efficiency; Reorganization; Taiwan Power Company (TPC)

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EFFICIENCY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PARETO PRINCIPLE;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA);

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037291032     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2002.807081     Document Type: Article

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