Design for the environment (DfE) has been recognized as one of the most important practices for achieving sustainability. One major challenge in DfE implementation is how to effectively deal with the mix of the both the desirable outputs (to maintain or improve traditional product attributes)...

This handbook focuses on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) applications in operations analytics which are fundamental tools and techniques for improving operation functions and attaining long-term competitiveness. In fact, the handbook demonstrates that DEA can be viewed as Data Envelopment...

Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Ranking Decision Making Units: The Cross-Efficiency Evaluation -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Ranking Methods in DEA -- 1.3 The Cross-Efficiency Evaluation: The Standard Approach -- 1.4 The Choice of DEA Weights in Cross-Efficiency Evaluations --...

Conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) models are used to measure the technical and scale efficiencies of a system when it is considered as a whole unit. This paper extends the efficiency measurement to two-stage systems where each stage has one process and all the outputs from the first...

Conventional two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) models measure the overall performance of a production system composed of two stages (processes) in a specified period of time, where variations in different periods are ignored. This paper takes the operations of individual periods into...