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Finding the Most Preferred Decision-Making Unit in Data Envelopment Analysis
Joint Authors
Mohammadi, Shirin
Mirdehghan, S. Morteza
Jahanshahloo, Gholamreza
Source
Advances in Operations Research
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-8, 8 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-12-08
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) evaluates the efficiency of the transformation of a decision-making unit’s (DMU’s) inputs into its outputs.
Finding the benchmarks of a DMU is one of the important purposes of DEA.
The benchmarks of a DMU in DEA are obtained by solving some linear programming models.
Currently, the obtained benchmarks are just found by using the information of the data of inputs and outputs without considering the decision-maker’s preferences.
If the preferences of the decision-maker are available, it is very important to obtain the most preferred DMU as a benchmark of the under-assessment DMU.
In this regard, we present an algorithm to find the most preferred DMU based on the utility function of decision-maker’s preferences by exploring some properties on that.
The proposed method is constructed based on the projection of the gradient of the utility function on the production possibility set’s frontier.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Mohammadi, Shirin& Mirdehghan, S. Morteza& Jahanshahloo, Gholamreza. 2016. Finding the Most Preferred Decision-Making Unit in Data Envelopment Analysis. Advances in Operations Research،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-8.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Mohammadi, Shirin…[et al.]. Finding the Most Preferred Decision-Making Unit in Data Envelopment Analysis. Advances in Operations Research No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-8.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Mohammadi, Shirin& Mirdehghan, S. Morteza& Jahanshahloo, Gholamreza. Finding the Most Preferred Decision-Making Unit in Data Envelopment Analysis. Advances in Operations Research. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-8.
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Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1096533