Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory and Application

Author: Duan Yongrui
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book is a specialized work on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models and their theoretical and applied aspects, summarizing the author's recent research. Chapter 1 classifies and summarizes existing systematic evaluation methods, as well as the applications and problems of DEA. Chapter 2 studies the relative effectiveness evaluation of complex systems with independent subsystems, establishing models such as the C2WH-ISS model that reflects decision-making preferences, the C2G2S-ISS model assuming scale economies for evaluating pure technical efficiency, the CIG-ISS model allowing intra-group cooperation, and the CIAG-ISS model allowing both intra-group and inter-group cooperation. Chapter 3 focuses on the convexity constraints of production possibility sets, establishing a quasi-concave DEA model that allows intra-group cooperation when decision-making units are not mutually independent. Chapter 4 investigates relative effectiveness evaluation of decision-making units and saturation by establishing an L-R type fuzzy DEA model. Chapters 6 to 8 explore the application of the models in this book to evaluations in manufacturing, universities, and banking. This book is suitable for researchers and practitioners in fields related to decision-making, evaluation, and optimization, such as economics, management, and mathematics. It can also serve as a reference for senior university students, graduate students, and teachers.