Network Data Envelopment Analysis Foundations and Extensions /

• Main Author: Kao, Chiang (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 240
• Subjects: Business.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Management science.; Business and Management.; Operations Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Research, Management Science.

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 the in...

Table of Contents:

• 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
• Basic Ideas in Efficiency Measurement for Network Systems
• Basic Two-stage Systems
• General Two-stage Systems
• General Multi-stage Systems
• Parallel Systems
• Hierarchical Systems
• Assembly and Disassembly Systems
• Mixed Systems
• Dynamic Systems
• Epilogue. .