A survey of data envelopment analysis in energy and environmental studies

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2007.04.042zbMath1144.90425OpenAlexW2081489108MaRDI QIDQ2477660

Peng Zhou, Beng Wah Ang, Kim Leng Poh

Publication date: 14 March 2008

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2007.04.042

zbMATH Keywords

efficiencyperformance measurementbenchmarkingdata envelopment analysis (DEA)energy and environmental (E{\&}E) modeling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Large-scale problems in mathematical programming (90C06) Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50)

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Uses Software

• DEAP

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