The state of the art in fuzzy data envelopment analysis

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing

Volumn 309, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-45

  Emrouznejad, Ali ^a   Tavana, Madjid ^b,c   Hatami Marbini, Adel ^d  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^d LOUVAIN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Fuzzy arithmetic; Fuzzy random; Fuzzy ranking approach; Fuzzy sets; Possibility approach; Tolerance approach; Type 2 fuzzy set; level based approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958536398     PISSN: 14349922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-41372-8_1     Document Type: Article

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