A method of stepwise benchmarking for inefficient DMUs based on the proximity-based target selection

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 11595-11604

  Estrada, Shaneth A ^a   Song, Hee Seok ^a   Kim, Young Ae ^b   Namn, Su Hyeon ^a   Kang, Shin Cheol ^a  

^a Hannam University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Business School   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Data Envelopment Analysis; Proximity based target selection; Reinforcement Learning; Self Organizing Map

Indexed keywords

COMPARISON RESULT; DATA SETS; DYNAMIC METHOD; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; OPTIMAL PATHS; PROXIMITY-BASED TARGET SELECTION; REAL SITUATION; REFERENCE TARGET; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; TARGET SELECTION;

BENCHMARKING; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; REINFORCEMENT; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

TARGETS;

EID: 67349254648     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.03.035     Document Type: Article

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