this paper presents an integrated data envelopment analysis (dea) – principal component analysis (pca) – analytical hierarchy process (ahp) to achieve the efficiency scores and ranks of the insurance companies. fourteen insurance companies with thirteen input and output variables have been considered for the purpose of this study. since the dea model is sensitive to the number of variables in c...

Abstract This article discusses two methods to measure the concept of local competitiveness: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). The goal this analysis is determine whether these used in social sciences research lead comparable model results. By non-parametric tests we show that there a significant correlation between PCA AHP competitiveness indexes. There...

Coastal flooding risks are increasing with the rise of sea level due to global climate change. Such risk presents different groups residents diverse vulnerability. Using a coastal city as study area, this quantitatively and qualitatively examines social vulnerability across communities at rising. This develops novel assessment method that integrates principal component analysis (PCA) analytical...

In recent years, many panel manufacturers and vendors in Taiwan have invested extensively in liquid crystal display (LCD) due to the increasing demand from all over the world. New types and lager size of LCDs have been designed collaboratively by R&D groups using product data management (PDM) system. However, the key performance indices (KPIs) of PDM system are lack of discussion in LCD industr...