A clustering method for evaluating the environmental performance based on slacks-based measure

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 169-177

  Bi, Gong Bing ^a   Song, Wen ^a   Wu, Jie ^a  

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

Author keywords

Clustering approach; Data envelopment analysis; Environmental performance

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

CLUSTERING APPROACH; CLUSTERING METHODS; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; CONVENTIONAL CLUSTERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; PRODUCTION PROCESS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84898939062     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2014.03.016     Document Type: Article

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