Cross evaluation using weight restrictions in unitary input DEA models: Theoretical aspects and application to Olympic Games ranking

WSEAS Transactions on Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-39

  de Mello, João Carlos Correia Baptista Soares ^a   Gomes, Eliane Gonçalves ^b   Meza, Lidia Angulo ^a   Neto, Luiz Biondi ^c  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cross evaluation; Data Envelopment Analysis; Ranking; Unitary input; Weights restrictions

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CROSS EVALUATION; LEXICOGRAPHIC MULTICRITERIA METHOD; UNITARY INPUT; WEIGHTS RESTRICTIONS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 43749124694     PISSN: 11092777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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