Fuzzy satisfactory evaluation method for covering the ability comparison in the context of DEA efficiency

Evaluation of efficiency of each of the DMUs (Decision Making Units) in a company is a very important task. Thus, the studies of evaluation of efficiency are being actively carried out, based on production function. Until quite recently, the loglinear production function (the Cobb-Douglas function) has been used for evaluation purposes. The loglinear model evaluates the DMUs by measuring the average efficiency. Of late, the DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) focussed the interest as the available method, in the form of either the CCR (Charnes-Cooper-Rhodes) or the BCC (Banker-Charnes-Cooper) model. However, the DEA approach does not provide for the lower limit of the production set, but only for the upper one. Hence, considering the fact that in the real-life problems the production set ranges between the lower and the upper limit, it is proposed that the possibility production function be constructed by introducing fuzziness into the loglinear production function. When we try to evaluate efficiency with the help of this possibility function, we can obtain from it two efficiency ratings, corresponding to the upper and lower limits. The DEA and the fuzzy loglinear models perform evaluation in the sense of inclusion of all the DMU data and provide a dual possibility image of efficiency in the sense that the DEA assesses the lower limit of inputs for the given output, while the fuzzy loglinear model assesses the maximum output for the given inputs. Hence, by making full use of this duality, we try to fuse the DEA and the fuzzy loglinear model in the evaluation of DMU efficiency by introducing a fuzzy goal. We propose to construct the fuzzy goal by evaluating the ratings for individual outputs with the help of fuzzy loglinear analysis, and introduce this fuzzy goal into the DEA. This approach can yield both efficiency and ability as obtained from the comparison of the CCR-based efficiencies.