The environmental and social impacts of products are being increasingly scrutinized. This
necessitates systematic assessment methods. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) …

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 …

Hospitals are the main sub-section of health care systems and evaluation of hospitals is one
of the most important issue for health policy makers. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a …

Strategic alliances and partnerships including mergers and acquisitions have been a
growing trend in many industries in the past decades. There are many studies in the …

Resource sharing exists not only among multiple entities but also among various stages of a
single network structure system. Previous studies focused on how to allocate total given …

In practice, the concept of incentives is extensively applied in the allocation process for
guiding the behaviours of an organization's units to satisfy the goals of the organization …

Transportation sector with the consumption of 25% of energy play a major role in Iranian
economy. This sector produces 27% of total undesirable greenhouse gases in Iran which …

In practice, allocating common revenues or fixed costs is a common practice in multi-unit
organizations to motivate subunits to improve performance. Recently, Dai et al.(2021, EJOR) …

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a frontier analysis procedure for evaluating the relative
performance of decision making units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. To …

The problem of ranking Decision Making Units (DMUs) in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
has been widely studied in the literature. Some of the proposed approaches use cooperative …