Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been widely applied in measuring the efficiency of Decision-Making Units (DMUs). The conventional DEA three major drawbacks: a) it does not consider Decision Makers’ (DMs) preferences evaluation process, b) DMUs this model are flexible weighting criteria to reach maximum possible efficiency, and c) ignores uncertainty data. However, many real-world applicatio...

This article explains how data envelopment analysis can be used as a decision support system to perform financial statement analysis and demonstrates the benefits DEA offers over traditional financial statement analysis techniques. A major advantage of the DEA approach is that it clearly identifies the factors contributing to the performance of company over its competitors.

introduction: establishing improvement in every organization requires assessment of organizational performance, planning and goal-setting to improve the performance. despite remarkable progresses occurred in recent years on designing the frameworks and performance evaluation systems, many organizations still rely on traditional criteria. therefore, according to the importance of performance eva...

objective: the aims of this study were to determine energy efficiency and co2 use pattern of grape production in zanjan province, iran by a non-parametric method of data envelopment analysis (dea). methods: initial data were collected using a face to face questionnaire from 42 orchards in abhar city of zanjan province which is one of the most important centers of grape production in iran. the d...

selection of an appropriate set of information system (is) projects is a critical business activity which is very helpful to all organizations. in this paper, after describing real is project selection problem of iran ministry of commerce (moc), we introduce two data envelopment analysis (dea) models. then, we show applicability of introduced models for identifying most efficient is project fro...

every country actively and initiatively takes all kinds of policy steps to improve the international competitiveness of its industries and therefore improve national integrated competitiveness for the purpose of gaining economic benefits under the context of economic globalization. therefore, studies of moreover, projects launched by the cluster had to be endorsed by the growers and one criteri...