Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis, (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science) - Hardcover

William W. Cooper Joe (EDT) Zhu Joe Zhu

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402077971 ISBN 13: 9781402077975

Publisher: Springer, 2004

Synopsis

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) 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 contexts worldwide. DEA's data-oriented approach has been widely used in evaluating the efficiency and productivity of many different kinds of entities engaged in many different kinds of activities in many different contexts. DEA opens up possibilities for use in cases which have been resistant to other approaches because of the complex and often unknown nature of the relationships between their many activities. In addition, DEA is used to provide new insights into activities and entities that have previously been evaluated by other methods. This Handbook has been developed as a comprehensive reference for reseachers, students and practitioners. It reflects the state-of-the-art in Data Envelopment Analysis. It also represents a milestone in the progression of a continuously advancing methodology. which has extensive utility. Written by experts - who are the major research contributors to the topics covered - the Handbook is organized in thre

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Review

From the reviews: "This handbook provides a valuable overview of DEA models on the one hand and many DEA applications supplemented by software information on the other hand. ... can be recommended to researchers, students and practitioners with basic knowledge of DEA who are interested in current DEA methodology and applications." (Andreas Kleine, OR-News Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR) e.V., Iss. 24, Juli, 2005)

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402077971
• ISBN 13: 9781402077975
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608