Performance based stratification and clustering for benchmarking of container terminals

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 5016-5022

  Sharma, Mithun J ^a   Yu, Song Jin ^b  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Maritime University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Container terminals; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Self organizing map

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; CONTAINERS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; EFFICIENCY; PORT TERMINALS; PRODUCTIVITY; RAILROAD YARDS AND TERMINALS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

CONTAINER TERMINAL; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; OPERATING PRACTICES; PERFORMANCE BASED; PORT MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; REFERENCE SET; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 58749087732     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.06.010     Document Type: Article

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