A note on simulating weights restrictions in DEA: An improvement of Thanassoulis and Allen's method

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1037-1044

  Jahanshahloo, G R ^a   Soleimani Damaneh, M ^a  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

DEA; Efficiency; Linear programming; Weights restrictions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; EFFICIENCY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING;

CONSTANT RETURN-TO-SCALE (CRS); DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); VARIABLE RETURNS-TO-SCALE (VRS); WEIGHT RESTRICATIONS;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 5644242073     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2003.08.020     Document Type: Article

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