Measuring the Efficiency of Financial Cloud Services in the Banking Industry Using the Modified Dynamic DEA with Network Structure: The Case of Iran E-Banking.

Subject Areas : Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and its Application in Financial Management

Alireza Poordavoodi ¹ , Mohammad Reza Moazami Goudarzi ² , Hamid Haj Seyyed Javadi ³ , Amir Masoud Rahmani ⁴

1 - Department of Computer Engineering, Borujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Borujerd, Iran
2 - Department of Mathematics, Borujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Borujerd, Iran.
3 - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Department of Computer Science, Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan

Received: 2020-04-28 Accepted : 2020-07-18 Published : 2021-01-01

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