While we increasingly turn to desalination as a secure water supply, it is still perceived as an
expensive and environmentally damaging solution, affordable only for affluent societies. In …

There is a growing need to assess the effects of policies and global changes on both water
resources and agriculture. Agricultural programming models are adequate to study this topic …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

This paper estimates the efficiency of the power generation sector in the USA by using
Window Data Envelopment Analysis (W-DEA). We integrate radial and non-radial efficiency …

Uneven water resources and growing food demand due to an increasing population bring
challenges to China. One important mechanism to address these challenges is to enhance …

Inverse data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a reversed optimization problem that can serve
as a useful planning tool for managerial decisions by providing information such as how …

The key consideration for firms' restructuring is improving their operational efficiencies.
Market conditions often offer opportunities or generate threats that can be handled by …

Traditional inverse DEA models could be called inverse radial DEA because they are based
on radial efficiency measures. Due to the neglect of slacks in evaluating the efficiency score …

Transport accessibility is crucial for defining urban clusters and evaluating a region's
centrality and connectivity. To foster equitable growth in urban conglomerates, it is crucial to …

Based on stochastic nonparametric envelopment of data, this paper estimates the shadow
prices of agricultural water and the technical efficiencies, using an input-output data of 30 …