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 …

Maritime transport is extremely important for the world economy, and similarly for the
Brazilian economy. The objective of this paper is to analyse the relative efficiency of …

This research proposes a new ranking system for extreme efficient DMUs (Decision Making
Units) based upon the omission of these efficient DMUs from reference set of the inefficient …

Conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) assists decision makers in distinguishing
between efficient and inefficient decision making units (DMUs) in a homogeneous group …

There exist many different ranking methods for ranking efficient Decision Making Units
(DMUs) in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). However, since each of these methods …

An original DEA model is to evaluate each DMU optimistically, but the interval DEA model
proposed in this paper has been formulated to obtain an efficiency interval consisting of …

Decision makers always lay great emphasis on performance evaluation upon a group of
peer business units to pick out the best performer. Standard data envelopment analysis …

The aim of this paper is to present an original approach for ranking of DEA‐efficient DMUs
based on the cross efficiency and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methods. The approach …

This study aims to identify efficient Information Technology (IT) candidates for a specific
position and highlight areas for improvement using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). By …

Overall efficiency measures were introduced in the literature for evaluating the economic
performance of firms when reference prices are available. These references are usually …