Subject Areas : International Journal of Data Envelopment Analysis

Fatemeh Mohammadi ¹ , masoud sanei ² , Mohsen Rostamy ³

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3 - Department of Mathematics, science and research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2024-09-08 Accepted : 2024-11-02 Published : 2024-10-01

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