Ranking all decision making units based on their elementary differences

Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 732-740

  Yang, Feng ^a   Liang, Liang ^a   Bi, Gongbing ^a   Ling, Liuyi ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Data envelopment analysis; Preference structure; Ranking; Technical efficiency; Within group position

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT; PREFERENCE STRUCTURE; RANKING; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; WITHIN-GROUP POSITION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DATA HANDLING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 77956278960     PISSN: 10044132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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