It has been shown in prior work in management science, statistics and machine learning that using an ensemble of models often results in better performance than using a single ‘best’ model. This paper proposes a novel Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) based approach to combine models. We prove that for the 2-class classification problems, DEA models identify the same convex hull as the popular RO...

Chiou et al. (2010) (A joint measurement of efficiency and effectiveness for non-storable commodities: integrated data envelopment analysis approache s. European Journal of Operationa l Research 201, 477– 489) propose an integrated data envelopment analysis model in measuring decision making units (DMUs) that have a two-stage internal netwo rk structure with multiple inputs, outputs, and consum...

Super-efficiency data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is obtained when a decision making unit (DMU) under evaluation is excluded from the reference set. Because of the possible infeasibility of super-efficiency DEA model, the use of super-efficiency DEA model has been restricted to the situations where constant returns to scale (CRS) are assumed. It is shown that one of the input-oriented and ...

Traditional DEA models ignore the internal process of production systems and are not able to identify the cause of deficiency in efficiencies measuring. At this research, traditional DEA model and two-stage DEA model were used to measure the efficiency of Iranian private insurance companies during 2007-2009. The results indicated that the traditional DEA model is not suitable for such kind of n...

DEA is a non-parametric and linear programming based technique that attempts to maximize a decision making unit’s (DMUs) relative efficiency, expressed as a ratio of outputs to inputs, by comparing a particular unit’s efficiency with the performance of a group of similar DMUs that are delivering the same service. The traditional DEA models treat DMUs as black boxes whose internal structure is i...

Aggregating measure scores is an important step in multiple criteria decision-making, determining the overall effectiveness from dissimilar measures. One of the most popular aggregating methods is Simple Additive Weighting (SAW), which assigns weights to measures based on subjective preference information, and sum weighted scores up. The quality of overall score is highly dependent on the quali...

The game of darts has enjoyed great growth over the past decade with perception moving from that a pub to is regularly scheduled on prime-time television in many countries such as United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, and Australia, among others. It involves strategic interactions between two players, but date, literature ignored these interactions. In this paper, we formulate solve dynamic zer...

In today's environment which emphasis on energy efficiency, predicting the trend of electrical energy consumption efficiency, and researching the efficient operation model of power industry has practical significance. By establishing GM-DEA method system, we use GM model to predict four inputs and output indicators in 2011 and 2012 in Beijing first, and then use DEA to give predicting years a r...