"Applications of Management Science" is a blind refereed serial publication published on an annual basis. The objective of this research annual is to present state-of-the-art studies in the application of management science to the solution of significant managerial decision-making problems. It...

Data envelopment analysis was introduced as a nonparametric linear programming estimator to estimate the production frontier and technical efficiency of observed production units. Allowing multiple inputs and multiple outputs, the approach can be considered a nonparametric quantile regression...