Congestion and returns to scale in data envelopment analysis.

DOI10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00799-3zbMath1099.90558MaRDI QIDQ1420390

Hong Yan, Quan-Ling Wei

Publication date: 2 February 2004

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Data envelopment analysisCongestionEfficiencyReturn to scale

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sensitivity, stability, parametric optimization (90C31) Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Special problems of linear programming (transportation, multi-index, data envelopment analysis, etc.) (90C08)

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