in the present study, an attempt has been made to use data envelopment analysis (dea) for assessing the technical efficiency and return-to-scale for greenhouse cucumber production in iran. for this purpose, the data from greenhouses in esfahan province, during one period of plant cultivation in one year including spring plants were randomly collected. the results indicated that total input ener...

background: one way to improve the performance of hospitals, the largest resource-consuming units in the healthcare sector, is to continuously evaluate their performance.objective: the current study assessed the performance of hospitals affiliated with the kurdistan university of medical sciences using data envelopment analysis (dea).methods: this retrospective descriptive-analytic study used d...

background: nowadays, healthcare systems are considered as important service sectors, and they are social development and welfare standards; hence the performance of this sector is highly important. evaluating performance is the first step of various departments to determine the efficiency of the healthcare system. in the meantime, diagnostic laboratories of hospitals play important roles as sp...

An increasing number of organizations and businesses around the world use cloud computing services to improve their performance in competitive marketplace. However, one biggest challenges using is measurement selection best service providers (CSPs) based on quality (QoS) requirements <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref13" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/...

Purpose: The article's main aim is to investigate the effectiveness of health systems in European countries based on EUROSTAT data. A comparative analysis systems' different their improvement (reform), using best practices approach. Design/Methodology/Approach: network DEA model and a slack-based (NDEA – SBM) are used. non-oriented research sample covers 30 (28 EU plus Norway Island). system co...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a nonparametric approach for measuring the relative efficiency of a decision making units consists of multiple inputs and outputs. In all standard DEA models semi positive real valued measures are assumed, while in some real cases inputs and outputs may take complex valued. The question is related to measuring efficiency in such cases. As far as we are aware, ...

&lt;p style='text-indent:20px;'&gt;The conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) models presume that the values of input-output variables decision-making units (DMUs) are precisely known. However, some real-life situations can authoritatively mandate to vary in concrete fine-tuned ranges, which include negative and measures allowed take integer only. Our study proposes an integrated dynamic ...

 Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to present a new model of non-radial data envelopment analysis that is able to evaluate the systems one of these complete networks is supply chain of cement industry. In this paper, using a non-radial model in data envelopment analysis, a model with a network structure that can assess the sustainable supply chain of strategic industries is evaluated....

Efficiency and quality of services are crucial to today’s banking industries. The competition in this section has become increasingly intense, as a result of fast improvements in Technology. Therefore, performance analysis of the banking sectors attracts more attention these days. Even though data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a pioneer approach in the literature as of an efficiency measurement...