The adjusted spherical frontier model with weight restrictions

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 220, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 729-735

  Silva, Rodrigo Cesar ^a,b   Milioni, Armando Zeferino ^b  

^a Texas Tech University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE AERONÁUTICA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

DEA; Resource allocation; Weight restrictions

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); DEA; DECISION MAKING UNIT; FAIR ALLOCATION; PARAMETRIC MODELS; SPHERICAL SHAPE; WEIGHT RESTRICTION;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84859735966     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2012.01.064     Document Type: Article

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