Efficiency measurement in data envelopment analysis in the presence of ordinal and interval data

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 1971-1982

  Ebrahimi, Bohlool ^a   Tavana, Madjid ^b,c   Rahmani, Morteza ^a   Santos Arteaga, Francisco J ^d,e  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^d FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOLZANO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Interval data; Ordinal data; Ranking

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CONVERSION PROCESS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; INTERVAL DATA; ORDINAL DATA; PRODUCTION POSSIBILITY SET; RANKING; SPECIAL PROPERTIES;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 85007504231     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-016-2826-2     Document Type: Article

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