A New Practical Common Weights Approach to Rank Decision-Making Units in Data Envelopment Analysis
Subject Areas : International Journal of Industrial Mathematics
محمدجواد رضائیانی
1
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Department of Mathematics, University of Qom, Qom, Iran.
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علی اصغر فروغی
2
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Department of Mathematics, University of Qom, Qom, Iran.
)
Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis, Efficiency, Common set of weights, Ranking, Multiple inputs and outputs,
Abstract :
There exist several approaches for deriving a common set of weights in data envelopment analysis (DEA) literature. However, most of these approaches are based on complicated models. In this paper, a new practical approach is proposed to provide a common set of weights. The results of the new approach are compared with some of the existing models through several numerical examples.
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