This paper covers some of the past accomplishments of DEA and its future prospects. It starts with the engineering-science definitions of efficiency and uses the duality theory of linear programming to show how, in DEA, they can be related to the Pareto-Koopmens definitions used in welfare...

General Discussion -- The Basic CCR Model -- The CCR Model and Production Correspondence -- Alternative DEA Models -- Returns to Scale -- Models with Restricted Multipliers -- Discretionary, Non-discretionary and Categorical Variables -- Allocation Models -- Data Variations.

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....