A common-weights DEA model for centralized resource reduction and target setting

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 79, Issue , 2015, Pages 195-203

  Hatami Marbini, Adel ^a   Tavana, Madjid ^b,c   Agrell, Per J ^a   Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, Farhad ^d   Ghelej Beigi, Zahra ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^d ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^e ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Centralized resource reduction; Common Set of Weights; Data Envelopment Analysis; Input and output deterioration; Target setting

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CENTRALIZED RESOURCES; COMMON SET OF WEIGHTS; DECISION MAKING UNIT; DECISION-MAKING SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATIONS; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; TARGET SETTING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84917736433     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2014.10.024     Document Type: Article

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