Selecting symmetric weights as a secondary goal in DEA cross-efficiency evaluation

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 544-549

  Jahanshahloo, G R ^a   Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, F ^a   Jafari, Y ^a   Maddahi, R ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cross efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Ranking

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; CROSS-EFFICIENCY; CROSS-EFFICIENCY EVALUATION; DATA ENVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING UNIT; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; RANKING; WEIGHT ASSIGNMENT;

DATA HANDLING; DECISION MAKING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955664550     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2010.07.020     Document Type: Article

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