Petroleum-contaminated groundwater remediation systems design: A data envelopment analysis based approach

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 5666-5672

  Zhang, Xiaodong ^a   Huang, Guo H ^a,b   Lin, Qianguo ^a   Yu, Hui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cross efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Groundwater remediation systems design; Super efficiency

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EFFICIENCY; GROUNDWATER; PETROLEUM ANALYSIS; REMEDIATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; CROSS EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; GROUND WATER REMEDIATION; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; MULTIPLE INPUTS AND MULTIPLE OUTPUTS; PETROLEUM-CONTAMINATED SITES; SUPER EFFICIENCY;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

EID: 58349105566     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.06.136     Document Type: Article

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