the performance evaluation and efficiency measurement of software companies and compare them together as a set of knowledge-based activities due to the unknown of internal processes and stages common to these companies and ignoring these processes in performance evaluation by data envelopment analysis models and how to consider these processes and procedures for calculating efficiency of each s...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a useful mathematical tool for evaluating the performance of production units and ranking their relative efficiency. In many real-world applications, belong to several separate groups also consist sub-units. this paper, we introduce new method group efficiency two-stage systems. To end, some DEA models are introduced systems based on average weakest criteria. ...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) provides means for piecewise linear approximation of production functions. To improve the fit to the data we propose to improve the flexibility of the frontier by extending DEA towards a more general piecewise quadratic approximation, called Quadratic Data Envelopment Analysis (QDEA). In contrast to the linear approximation, the quadratic approximation allows for...