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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"meta-frontier"”.
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Territorial Challenges and Sustainable Regional Development. A mixed-method approach
… index and Benefit-of-the-Doubt aggregation; meta-frontier benchmarking and a Spatial Durbin Model separate local efficiency from structural disadvantage and reveal spatial spillovers. Chapter 2 tests whether Protected Areas reduce landscape fragmentation using a boundary-based regression …
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Heterogeneous Decision-Making in Socio-Technical Systems Methodologies for Efficiency Measurement and Decision Analysis with Mixed Data
… providing a rigorous foundation for clustering, meta-frontier analysis, and group-specific benchmarking. The second contribution develops a multivariate fuzzy DEA methodology that enables the inclusion of ordinal, categorical, and imprecise data through the integration of Multiple Factor Analysis …
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Measuring the Efficiency of Highway Maintenance Operations: Environmental and Dynamic Considerations
… contracting) and proposes a five-stage meta-frontier and bootstrapping analytical approach to account for the heterogeneity in the DMUs, the resulting bias in the estimated efficiency scores, and the effect of uncontrollable variables; (ii) the application of the engineering approach by …
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The competitiveness of the Irish dairy industry in the global market: farm to trade
… used for export competitiveness. A stochastic meta-frontier approach was adopted for comparing Irish regional farm technical efficiencies (proxy for farm competitiveness). The vector error correction model was applied to test the extent to which changes in competitor prices and farm milk prices …
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Management of Complex Sociotechnical Systems
… the workload boundary through a Pareto-Koopmans frontier. This frontier allows one to capture the aggregate impact of the social and technical factors that originate from operational conditions on workload. The second essay studies how teams of humans and their autonomous partners share work, …