A decision model for ranking suppliers in the presence of cardinal and ordinal data, weight restrictions, and nondiscretionary factors

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 177-192

  Farzipoor Saen, Reza ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cardinal and ordinal data; Data envelopment analysis; Nondiscretionary factors; Supplier ranking; Weights restriction

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249092509     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-009-0556-x     Document Type: Article

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