Ranking decision making units by imposing a minimum weight restriction in the data envelopment analysis

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 469-484

  Wang, Ying Ming ^a   Luo, Ying ^b   Liang, Liang ^c  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; DEA ranking; Maximin weights; Minimum weight restriction

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DEA RANKING; DECISION MAKERS; DECISION MAKING UNITS; DISCRIMINATION POWERS; EFFICIENCY RANKINGS; EFFICIENT; LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS; MAXIMIN; MAXIMIN WEIGHTS; MINIMUM WEIGHT RESTRICTION; MINIMUM WEIGHTS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; RANKING METHODOLOGIES; REAL APPLICATIONS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 54249139306     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2008.01.022     Document Type: Article

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