abstract. data envelopment analysis (dea) is now widely utilized as a method for assessing relative efficiency of a set of decision making units (dmus). along as evaluating relative efficiency dea models are capable of to be improved for finding benchmark for inefficient units which can help managers for better making decision. thus it is important to obtain accurate results from dea models. in...

the efficiency measurement is a subject of great interest. the majority of studies on dea models have been carried out using radial or non-radial approaches regarding the application of dea for the efficiency measurement. this paper, based on the directional distance function, proposes a new generalized hybrid measure of efficiency under generalized returns to scale with the existence of both r...

in many applications, ranking of decision making units (dmus) is a problematic technical task procedure to decision makers in data envelopment analysis (dea), especially when there are extremely efficient dmus. in such cases, many dea models may usually get the same efficiency score for different dmus. hence, there is a growing interest in ranking techniques yet. the purpose of this paper is ra...

background: assessment of hospitals’ performance in achieving its goals is a basic necessity. measuring the efficiency of hospitals in order to boost resource productivity in healthcare organizations is extremely important. the aim of this study was to measure technical efficiency and determining status of resource allocation in some university hospitals, in tehran, iran.   methods : this study...

one of the important issues in data envelopment analysis (dea) is sensitivity analysis. heretofore the existent studies have considered the data modification of inputs and outputs in one or multiple dmus. in this paper the number of dmus is increased and a stability region is obtained in  by applying defining hyperplanes in which if the added dmu (only one dmu) is in this region then all of the...

this paper investigates a procedure for identifying all efficient hyperplanes of production possibility set (pps). this procedure is based on a method which recommended by pekka j. korhonen[8]. he offered using of lexicographic parametric programming method for recognizing all efficient units in data envelopment analysis (dea). in this paper we can find efficient hyperplanes, via using the para...

the aim of this research was to measure the relative efficiency of forest management plans in north of iran. in order to fulfill the research, data of 12 forest management plans were collected from the financial balance sheets of shafaroud forest company during a ten years period. first of all, basic data envelopment analysis (dea) models (bcc and ccr) were used to determine the efficiency. the...

in many european states such as spain and italy there has been a significant growth of organic utilizable surface as a consequence of both a change in the model of agricultural production and also in order to satisfy arising demand of organic food. the purpose of this research was to investigate the level of technical, allocative and economic efficiency in italian olive farms with two different...

in this paper, it is assumed that the “decision making units“( ) are consist of positive and negative input and output. firstly, the optimistic and pessimistic models have been suggested by using negative data and then units with most productive scale size are measured in optimistic and pessimistic models. these productive values are compared with double frontiers and hurwicz’s criterion to obt...