A combined data envelopment analysis and support vector regression for efficiency evaluation of large decision making units

International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2310-2321

  Farahmand, Mohammadreza ^a   Desa, Mohammad Ishak ^a   Nilashi, Mehrbakhsh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Decision making units; Neural networks; Support vector machines; Support vector regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920641542     PISSN: 23198613     EISSN: 09754024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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