Efficiency of parallel production systems with fuzzy data

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 198, Issue , 2012, Pages 83-98

  Kao, Chiang ^a   Lin, Pei Huang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Fuzzy mathematical programming; Multiple criteria evaluation; Parallel system; Two level programming

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENTS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EXTENSION PRINCIPLES; FUZZY DATA; FUZZY MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; FUZZY MEASURES; FUZZY NUMBERS; FUZZY THEORY; INPUT/OUTPUT DATUM; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA EVALUATION; PARALLEL SYSTEM; PROCESS EFFICIENCY; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; PROGRAMMING MODELS; QUALITATIVE FACTORS; RELATIONAL DATA; RESEARCH QUALITY; SYSTEM EFFICIENCY; TEACHING AND RESEARCHES; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84859588396     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2012.01.004     Document Type: Article

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