Robust data envelopment analysis based MCDM with the consideration of uncertain data

Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 981-989

  Wang, Ke ^a,b   Wei, Fajie ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Efficiency; Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM); Ranking; Robust optimization; Uncertain data

Indexed keywords

BOUNDED UNCERTAINTY; DATA UNCERTAINTY; DEA MODELS; DECISION MAKING UNIT; EFFICIENCY EVALUATION; EVALUATION RESULTS; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; INPUT DATAS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OUTPUT DATA; RANDOM DATA; RANKING; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; UNCERTAIN DATAS;

DATA HANDLING; DECISION MAKING; OPTIMIZATION;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 78651083686     PISSN: 10044132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-4132.2010.06.009     Document Type: Article

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