DEA decomposition of China's environmental efficiency based on search algorithm

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 247, Issue , 2014, Pages 562-572

  Song, M L ^a   Wang, S H ^b  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental efficiency; Ratio DEA decomposition; Search algorithm

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY; SEARCH ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84907795512     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2014.09.050     Document Type: Article

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