An SBM-DEA model with parallel computing design for environmental efficiency evaluation in the big data context: a transportation system application

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 270, Issue 1-2, 2018, Pages 105-124

  Chu, Jun Fei ^a   Wu, Jie ^a   Song, Ma Lin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Big data; Data envelopment analysis; Environmental efficiency; Parallel computing; SBM model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976466622     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-016-2264-7     Document Type: Article

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