A goal programming procedure for ranking decision making units in DEA

Subject Areas : Applied Mathematics

Farhad Hosseinzadeh-Lotfi ¹ , Mohammad Izadikhah ² , R. Roostaee ³ , Mohsen Rostamy-Malkhalifeh ⁴

1 - Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Arak Branch, Iran.
3 - Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Arak Branch, Iran.
4 - Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2015-09-28 Accepted : 2015-09-28 Published : 2013-12-01

Keywords: Ranking, Data envelopment analysis, Pairwise comparison matrix, Goal programming,

Abstract :

This research proposes a methodology for ranking decision making units byusing a goal programming model.We suggest a two phases procedure. In phase1, by using some DEA problems for each pair of units, we construct a pairwisecomparison matrix. Then this matrix is utilized to rank the units via the goalprogramming model.

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