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Data Envelopment Analysis in Higher Education
This study investigates the potential of Data Envelopment Analysis (DBA) within a higher education institution in relation to alternative measurement approaches.<br/><br/>The first chapter presents an introduction to the higher education context with discussion of the issues affecting performance …
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Interval and fuzzy optimization. Applications to data envelopment analysis
… of efficiency assessment models and tools. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is one of the most important methodologies to measure efficiency assessment through the comparison of a group of DMUs. It permits the use of multiple inputs/outputs without any functional form. It is vastly applied to …
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Modeling Undesirable Outputs in Data Envelopment Analysis: Various Approaches
… tools normally used in efficiency evaluation is Data Envelopment Analysis, DEA. In the course of addressing these problems, a decision-maker encounters multiple and contradictory objectives with respect to the output set. This motivates the exploration of new arenas of measurement of efficiency …
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Robustness analysis based on weight restrictions in data envelopment analysis
… organizations using such resources and outputs. Data Envelopment Analysis models are designed to facilitate this of assessment and aim to evaluate the relative efficiency of organisations. Chapter 2 is dedicated to the basic Data Envelopment Analysis. We present the following: * A review of the …
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Evaluation of Airline Efficiency and Environmental Impacts Using Data Envelopment Analysis
… since the birth of the airline industry. Data envelopment analysis has become a highly accepted methodology for performing efficiency analysis and assessing relative differences between comparable business entities; over the last decade, airline efficiency research has proliferated into …
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AN APPLICATION OF DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS IN RELATIVE VALUATION OF EQUITIES
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been widely used in efficiency evaluation among various organisations since the late 70s. In this research, DEA method is firstly applied to value shares that are traded in the financial market. Then the facet analysis is developed to further match two sub-groups …
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Mathematical Modeling for Data Envelopment Analysis with Fuzzy Restrictions on Weights
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a relative technical efficiency measurement tool, which uses operations research techniques to automatically calculate the weights assigned to the inputs and outputs of the production units being assessed. The actual input/output data values are then multiplied …
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Performance and efficiency evaluation of logging contractors using data envelopment analysis
Nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) models were coded and used to measure radial and non-radial technical efficiency for a sample of logging contractors. Firms were evaluated in regards to the efficiency with which they converted inputs—dollars of capital, consumables, and labor—into …
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Evaluating relative productivity and efficiency of hospitality properties using data envelopment analysis
… using a nonparametric technique called Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA is a special linear programming model for deriving the comparative efficiency of multiple-input multiple-output decision-making units. In many industries, the use of DEA helped properties identify millions of …
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Integrating data envelopment analysis and balanced scorecard for improving organizations’ performance assessment
… by combining BSC with other techniques such as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), as these two techniques complement each other. The purpose of this thesis is to develop an improved performance assessment framework by combining BSC and DEA approaches to assess organizations’ performance and then …
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Managing radiotherapy treatment trade-offs using multi-criteria optimisation and data envelopment analysis
… Firstly, a quality control method based on data envelopment analysis is proposed. The method measures the improvement potential of a plan by comparing the plan to other reference plans. The method considers multiple criteria, including one that represents anatomical variations between …
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Data envelopment analysis for measuring the efficiency of head trauma care in England and Wales
… various efficiency measurement approaches, the data envelopment analysis (DEA) methodology is chosen for this research, including both the DEA-based Malmquist index model and the bootstrapping DEA model. Since the variables selected for these models include some missing data, the approach known …
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Potential Uses of Data Envelopment Analysis for Big Data and Machine Learning Integration in Evaluation
Data science and evaluation are two disciplines that could benefit enormously from successful integration. While data science can provide useful information in terms of statistics for any evaluation process, it as a subject can benefit from incorporating elements that investigate the value addition …
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Combining Balanced Score Card and Data Envelopment Analysis for Analyzing the Performance of Small Scale Fisheries
… implementation of the organization’s strategy. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been widely applied for measuring the efficiency of a specific decision-making unit (DMU) against a projected point on an efficiency frontier. DEA is therefore particularly suitable for measuring the …
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Transit productivity analysis in heterogeneous conditions using data envelopment analysis with an application to rail transit
This dissertation extends transit productivity analysis by developing a new method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the linear programming approach to productivity analysis. The new model analyzes productivity of transit working under heterogeneous operating conditions. It is named Two-Farrell …
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Measuring Efficiency for Egyptian Textile and Apparel Industry Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis
… and apparel industry via stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and data envelopment analysis (DEA). Differences between the SFA and the DEA can lead to different estimates for some, or all of the units in an analysis. Measuring efficiency through production process, (inputs and outputs), lacking …
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Measuring and Evaluating Efficiency and Effectiveness Using Goal Programming and Data Envelopment Analysis in a Fuzzy Environment
… and is developed using Goal Programming, Data Envelopment Analysis and Fuzzy Set Theory. The proposed framework is called Fuzzy GoDEA and uses surrogate constraints to represent the efficiency and effectiveness goals. DEA type constraints are used to model the efficiency goal. The …
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Development of a Comprehensive Framework for the Efficiency Measurement of Road Maintenance Strategies using Data Envelopment Analysis
… innovative approach to efficiency measurement, Data Envelopment Analysis, is used in this research. It is believed that this research, by taking the efficiency concept into account, will significantly improve the ways that are currently used to model and measure the performance of road …
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