Efficiency evaluation based on data envelopment analysis in the big data context

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 98, Issue , 2018, Pages 291-300

  Zhu, Qingyuan ^a,b   Wu, Jie ^a   Song, Malin ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c CHUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Big data; Data envelopment analysis; Decision making unit; Large scale computation

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EFFICIENCY;

COMPUTATION PROCESS; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; DECISION MAKING UNIT; EFFICIENCY EVALUATION; LARGE SCALE COMPUTATION; LINEAR CONSTRAINTS; REAL-WORLD SCENARIO; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY;

BIG DATA;

EID: 85021332256     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2017.06.017     Document Type: Article

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