Evaluating productive and ecological efficiencies of plants: An application of network DEA

2009 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering - 16th Annual Conference Proceedings, ICMSE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 338-343

  Bi, Gong Bing ^a   Tao, Cheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Ecological efficiency; Network DEA; Productive efficiency; Undesirable outputs1

Indexed keywords

A PLANTS; ECOLOGICAL EFFICIENCY; ECOLOGICAL PROBLEM; ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION; FUNCTIONAL PARTS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES; NETWORK DEA; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PAPER MILL; POLLUTANT CONTROL; SUB PROCESS; WASTE PRODUCTS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DATA HANDLING; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MINE TRANSPORTATION; PAPER AND PULP MILLS; POLLUTION CONTROL;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 72249085557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMSE.2009.5317400     Document Type: Conference Paper

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