Multiobjective target setting in data envelopment analysis using AHP

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 549-564

  Lozano, Sebastián ^a   Villa, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Data envelopment analysis; Interactive multiobjective optimization; Lexicographic multiobjective optimization; Target setting

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; HELIUM; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; KETONES; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PHOTODISSOCIATION; TARGETS;

A-PRIORI; ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); CANDIDATE TARGET; CURRENT INPUTS; DATA ENVELOPMENT; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKER; INTERACTIVE MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; LEXICOGRAPHIC MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; MULTI OBJECTIVES; MULTI-OBJECTIVE APPROACH; MULTIOBJECTIVE METHOD; OPERATING POINTS; PRIORITY LEVELS; PRIORITY MODEL; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RELATIVE PRIORITIES; TARGET SETTING;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 52049117931     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2007.10.015     Document Type: Article

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