Improving cross-efficiency evaluation using fuzzy concepts

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1352-1359

  Angiz, Majid Zerafat ^a   Sajedi, Mohammad Askari ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cross efficiency; Data Envelopment Analysis; Fuzzy; Pare wise comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879187596     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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