Metatechnology frontier and convexity: a restatement

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2018.11.064zbMath1430.90329OpenAlexW2903421951WikidataQ128853062 ScholiaQ128853062MaRDI QIDQ1713777

Kristiaan Kerstens, Ignace Van de Woestyne, Christopher J. O'Donnell

Publication date: 28 January 2019

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.11.064

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysismetafrontierfree disposal hull

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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