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...

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...

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 --...

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...

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...

Introduction -- Data Envelopment Analysis -- DEA in the Public Sector -- Input-Oriented Efficiency Measures in Australian Schools -- Output-Oriented Efficiency Measures in Australian School -- Productivity Measurement.

1 Basic DEA Models -- 2 Measure-specific DEA Models -- 3 Returns-to-Scale -- 4 DEA with Preference -- 5 Modeling Undesirable Measures -- 6 Context-dependent Data Envelopment Analysis -- 7 Benchmarking Models -- 8 Models for Evaluating Value Chains -- 9 Congestion -- 10 Super Efficiency -- 11...