A mixed-objective integer DEA model

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 81-95

  Wu, Jie ^a   Zhou, Zhixiang ^a  

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

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Efficiency; Improvement; Mixed objective integer DEA model (MO IDEA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027928988     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-011-0938-8     Document Type: Article

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