Negative data in DEA: recognizing congestion and specifying the least and the most congested decision making units

DOI10.1016/j.cor.2016.09.002zbMath1391.90347OpenAlexW2509650382MaRDI QIDQ1652144

Robabeh Eslami, Mohammad Khoveyni, Guo-liang Yang

Publication date: 11 July 2018

Published in: Computers \& Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2016.09.002

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysis (DEA)slack variablesmixed integer programming (MIP) modelnegative data in deastrong and weak congestion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear programming (90C05) Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Special problems of linear programming (transportation, multi-index, data envelopment analysis, etc.) (90C08)

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