The measurement of returns to scale under a simultaneous occurrence of multiple solutions in a reference set and a supporting hyperplane

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 549-570

  Sueyoshi, Toshiyuki ^a,b   Sekitani, Kazuyuki ^c  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; Linear programming

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

HYPERPLANE PASSING; MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 33947125407     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2006.05.042     Document Type: Article

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