Chapter 1. Data Envelopment Analysis and Big Data: Revisit with a Faster Method -- Chapter 2. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA): Algorithms, Computations, and Geometry -- Chapter 3. An Introduction to Data Science and Its Applications: an Introduction to Data Science and Its Applications --...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. New Definitions of Economic Cross-Efficiency -- Chapter 3. Evaluating Efficiency in Non-Homogeneous Environments -- Chapter 4. Testing Positive Endogeneity in Inputs in Data Envelopment Analysis -- Chapter 5. Modelling Pollution-Generating Technologies: A...

DEA for Two-State Networks: Efficiency Decompositions and Modeling Techniques -- Network DEA Pitfalls: Divisional Efficiency and Frontier Projection -- Efficiency Decomposition in Network Data Envelopment Analysis -- Two-Stage Network Processes: DEA Frontier Identification -- Additive Efficiency...

This handbook represents a milestone in the progression of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Written by experts who are often major contributors to DEA theory, it includes a collection of chapters that represent the current state-of-the-art in DEA research. Topics include distance functions and...

Efficiency Persistence of Bank and Thrift CEOs Using Data Envelopment Analysis -- Assessment of Transportation Performance: A Network Structure -- Total-Factor Energy Efficiency and Its Extensions: Introduction, Computation and Application -- Social cost efficient service quality – Integrating...

This book presents the underlying theory, model development, and applications of network Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in a systematic way. The field of network DEA extends and complements conventional DEA by considering not only inputs and outputs when measuring system efficiency, but also...

Introduction -- Output-Input Ratio Efficiency Measures -- Distance Function Efficiency Measures- Slacks-Based Efficiency Measures -- Efficiency Measurement in Special Production Stages -- Special Types of Input and Output Factors -- Special Types of Data -- Changes of Efficiency over Time --...