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Company-wide production planning using a multiple technology DEA approach
In this paper, Data Envelopment Analysis is used to determine the target output levels (and corresponding required inputs) for the multiple facilities under the responsibility of a Top Decision Maker. The prop...
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DEA-based pre-merger planning tool
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) can be used as a pre-merger planning tool to estimate expected cost and profit efficiency gains. Specifically, in this paper, two alternative DEA models are presented, one to mi...
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TSD-consistent performance assessment of mutual funds
This paper presents three new data envelopment analysis-based approaches to assess the relative efficiency of mutual funds (MFs). Each model considers an appropriate risk measure as input and an appropriate re...
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Determining a sequence of targets in DEA
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) can be used for assessing the relative efficiency of a number of operating units, finding, for each inefficient unit, a target operating point lying on the efficient frontier. M...
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Centralized DEA models with the possibility of downsizing
While traditional data envelopment analysis (DEA) models assess the relative efficiency of similar, independent decision making units (DMUs) centralized DEA models aim at reallocating inputs and outputs among ...
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Measuring the performance of nations at the Summer Olympics using data envelopment analysis
In this paper a well known tool for relative efficiency assessment, namely Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), is used to measure the performance of the nations participating at the last five Summer Olympic games...
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A one-step tabu search algorithm for manufacturing cell design
As part of the cellular manufacturing design process, machines must be grouped in cells and the corresponding part families must be assigned. Limits on both the number of machines per cell and the number of pa...
