Selecting the most preferable alternatives in a group decision making problem using DEA

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 9599-9602

  Zerafat Angiz L , M ^a,c   Emrouznejad, A ^b   Mustafa, A ^c   Rashidi Komijan, A ^a  

^a Azad University   (Iran)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Group decision making; Most preferable alternative; Preferential voting system

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION THEORY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; VOTING MACHINES;

DECISION MAKERS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; GROUP DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL METHODS; MOST PREFERABLE ALTERNATIVE; MULTI-OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE LINEAR PROGRAMMING; NEW MODELS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PREFERENTIAL VOTING SYSTEM;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 60849084862     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

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