Almeida, P N de; Dias, L C - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society 63 (2012) 1, pp. 16-27
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is an approach based on linear programming to assess the relative efficiency of peer decision-making units (DMUs). Typically, each DMU is free to choose the weights of the factors used in its evaluation. However, the evaluator's preferences may not warrant so much...