An Approach to Identify and Evaluate Congestion in Data Envelopment Analysis

Subject Areas : International Journal of Data Envelopment Analysis

A. Ghomashi ¹ ( Department of mathematics, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran )
M. Abbasi ² ( Department of mathematics, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran. )
S. Shahghobadi ³ ( Department of Applied Mathematics, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran )

Received: 2016-07-13 Accepted : 2017-04-23 Published : 2017-07-01

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