This book introduces students on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding and Making courses to practical, real-world cases. Each case study introduces a problem or situation together with a method, and a description and explanation of a computer application. In this sense each chapter is based on four...

Managing Service Productivity using Data Envelopment Analysis -- Development of Assessment Model for Research Efficiency of Universities -- Incorporating intra- and inter-input/output weight restrictions in piece-wise linear DEA: an application to the assessment of the research activity in...

Ausgewählte DEA-Modelle: CCR-Modell und BCC-Modell -- Stochastische Effizienzkonzepte -- Entwicklung einer stochastischen Dienstleistungsaktivität -- DEA-Technologiemengen für stochastische Produktionen -- Chance-Constrained Technologiemenge.

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...

Hugely relevant in today's world of healthcare performance management, this comprehensive work applies the analytical framework of Data Envelopment Analysis methodology to provide health care administrators with specific tools for performance evaluation. Most important, the book provides health...

Designed to provide a systematic introduction to DEA and its uses as a multifaceted tool for evaluating problems in a variety of contexts. This volume reviews the basic principles taught in the authors' successful textbook, "Data Envelopment Analysis." This package includes the book in a CD-ROM...

"Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has grown has grown into a powerful quantitative, analytical tool for measuring and evaluating performance. It has been successfully applied to a host of different entities engaged in a wide variety of activities in many complex, multi-layered contexts worldwide....

In a relatively short period of time, data envelopment analysis (DEA) has grown into a powerful analytical tool for measuring and evaluating performance. DEA is computational at its core and this book is one of several Springer aim to publish on the subject. This work deals with the micro...

This volume addresses advanced DEA methodology and techniques developed for modeling unique new performance evaluation issues. Many numerical examples, real management cases and verbal descriptions make it very valuable for researchers and practitioners.

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...