Data envelopment analysis with uncertain data: An application for Iranian electricity distribution companies

Energy Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4247-4254

  Sadjadi, S J ^a   Omrani, H ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Electricity distribution companies; Robust optimization

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTRICITY; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT; DATA UNCERTAINTIES; ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES; LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS; OUTPUT PARAMETERS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RANDOM DATA; RANKING STRATEGIES; RELIABLE METHOD; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; ROBUST SOLUTIONS; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS; UNCERTAIN DATA;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; OPTIMIZATION; RANKING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 53449097838     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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