[PDF] Top 20 Measuring congestion in data envelopment analysis with common weights

... Congestion is said to occur when the output that is maximally possible can be increased by reducing one or more inputs without improving any other inputs or ...Conversely, congestion is said to occur when ... See full document

... the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) the efficiency of the units can be obtained by identifying the degree of the importance of the criteria ...unequal weights of the criteria when decision- ... See full document

... reverse, congestion occurs when the increases in one or more inputs can be associated with the decreases in one or more outputs without improving any other input or ...to analysis congestion under ... See full document

... stochastic data envelopment analysis model (MOFS-DEA) under mean chance constraints and common weights ot estimate the efficiency of decision making units for future financial periods ... See full document

... Empirically, the DEA method was successfully used for the evaluation of hospital efficiency (Osei et al., 2005; Valdmanis et al., 2004; Rebba and Rizzi, 2006). Invariably, the DEA method could guide the management team ... See full document

... a common set of weights to be applied across all ...agreed common set of weights can be ...a common set of ...department data the weights on the outputs presumably relate ... See full document

... their simplicity and ease of applicability. Almost, majority of MCDM techniques consist of generating alternatives, considering attributes (i.e. criteria) and assessment of alternatives according to the weights of ... See full document

... Prior to containerization, the general cargo was handled by geared breakbulk vessels docked at piers that extended into the water. After the Second World War, with a significant increase in international trade, most ... See full document

... the weights assigned to each input and output are chosen to ensure that each DMU appears to its best advantage (subject to the constraint that the weights must be ...of weights across all ... See full document

... The most widely used ranking method for Economics is the aforementioned Impact Factor of Thomson Scientific. Many attempts have been made to overcome the flaws of Impact Factor and the first significantly improved method ... See full document

... Johnes et al. (2012) compared, using DEA approach, the performance of 210 conventional and 45 Islamic banks from 19 countries for the period 2004-2009. They found out that there was no significant difference in mean ... See full document

... employing weights to reflect degree classification or lack of ...relative weights of degree classifications are represented by an index derived by Mallier and Rodgers (1995) based on income differentials by ... See full document

... of data envelopment analysis (DEA), the existing models are designed to obtain a single eciency ...Therefore, measuring the eciency of each component and measuring the aggregated ... See full document

... DEA analysis techniques. The data was taken from Punjab Economic Research Institute ...The data consists of 1578 wheat farms during the period 2006-2008 and it contains information regarding inputs ... See full document

... for measuring the efficiency of a bank: parametric and ...envelop data collected from sampled financial institutions in order to estimate the optimal frontier of the whole sample, and then scores each ... See full document

... the worse placement. The weights of this candidate are presented in Tab. III and in Fig. 1. We can see the more significant influence of penalties in the model (5) compare to model (4). The influence of the ... See full document

... In this paper, we mainly study the application of computer in university mathematics teaching. Next we use advanced mathematics courses to show this application. Then we use the combination degree of computers and ... See full document

... We contribute to the existing research in two ways. One way is to measure efficiency of the Italian university system at faculty level, while previous studies engaged in analyses at university level. The choice of ... See full document

... The paper shows that the Lingo based DEA techniques can offer more information that standard LP approach. The experiments show that this approach can be an appropriate instrument for analysing DEA problems with imprecise ... See full document

... secondary data. All the data are extracted from the respective official websites of the ...for analysis for that year. The lack of primary data, which would have enriched our analysis, ... See full document