An improved method for predicting and ranking suppliers efficiency using data envelopment analysis

Jurnal Teknologi

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 91-97

  Farahmand, Mohammadreza ^a,b   Desa, Mohammad Ishak ^a,c   Nilashi, Mehrbakhsh ^a   Wibowo, Antoni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c MALAYSIA JAPAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925356686     PISSN: 01279696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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