A data envelopment analysis model with interval data and undesirable output for combined cycle power plant performance assessment

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 760-773

  Khalili Damghani, Kaveh ^a   Tavana, Madjid ^b,c   Haji Saami, Elham ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Combined cycle power plant; Data envelopment analysis; Economic scale size; Imprecise data: undesirable outputs; Return to scale

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EFFICIENCY;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS MODELS; DECISION MAKING UNIT; IMPRECISE DATA; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; INTERVAL EFFICIENCY; RETURN TO SCALE; SCALE SIZES; UNCERTAIN FACTORS;

COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANTS;

EID: 84907486392     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.08.028     Document Type: Article

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