An integrated data envelopment analysis-artificial neural network-rough set algorithm for assessment of personnel efficiency

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1364-1373

  Azadeh, Ali ^a   Saberi, Morteza ^b,c   Moghaddam, Reza Tavakkoli ^a   Javanmardi, Leili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b TAFRESH UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artificial Neural Network (ANN); Cross Validation Test Technique (CVTT); Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Efficiency; Personnel; Rough Set Theory (RST)

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BANKING SYSTEMS; CROSS-VALIDATION TESTS; DATA ENVELOPMENT; DATA SETS; DESIGN WORK; INTEGRATED ALGORITHM; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTEGRATED DATA; MINIMUM SUBSETS; MULTIPLE INPUTS AND OUTPUTS; ROUGH SET; TOTAL EFFICIENCY;

ALGORITHMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DATA HANDLING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; NEURAL NETWORKS; STEADY FLOW;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 78049530902     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.07.033     Document Type: Article

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