DEA cross-efficiency aggregation method based upon Shannon entropy

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 50, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 6726-6736

  Wu, Jie ^a   Sun, Jiasen ^a   Liang, Liang ^a  

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

Author keywords

cross efficiency; cross evaluation; data envelopment analysis (DEA); Shannon entropy

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION METHODS; AGGREGATION PROCESS; CROSS-EFFICIENCY; CROSS-EFFICIENCY EVALUATION; CROSS-EVALUATION; DECISION MAKING UNIT; ENTROPY MODEL; GLOBAL OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; SHANNON ENTROPY;

AGGLOMERATION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84868578777     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2011.618150     Document Type: Article

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