Overview
- First book on DEA to incorporate preference or value information
- Shows all methods currently available
- Presents theory and practical applications
Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 218)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides an introduction to incorporating preference information in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with a special emphasis in Value Efficiency Analysis. In addition to theoretical considerations, numerous illustrative examples are included. Hence, the book can be used as a teaching text as well. Only a modest mathematical background is needed to understand the main principles. The only prerequisites are a) familiarity with linear algebra, especially matrix calculus; b) knowledge of the simplex method; and c) familiarity with the use of computer software.
The book is organized as follows. Chapter 1 provides motivation and introduces the basic concepts. Chapter 2 provides the basic ideas and models of Data Envelopment Analysis. The efficient frontier and production possibility set concepts play an important role in all considerations. That's why these concepts are considered more closely in Chapter 3. Since the approaches introduced in this study are inspired by Multiple Objective Linear Programming, the basic concepts of this field are reviewed in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 also compares and contrasts Data Envelopment Analysis and Multiple Objective Linear Programming, providing some cornerstones for approaches presented later in the book. Chapter 6 discusses the traditional approaches to take into account preference information in DEA. In Chapter 7, Value Efficiency is introduced, and Chapter 8 discusses practical aspects. Some extensions are presented in Chapter 9, and in Chapter 10 Value Efficiency is extended to cover the case when a production possibility set is not convex. Three implemented applications are reviewed in Chapter 11.
Reviews
“Researchers and managers who are interested in applications of DEA would seem to be the primary beneficiaries of reading it; professors and instructors might select some themes from the book to complement their DEA courses for OR students. In addition, the theoretician of decision making might be interested in the further development of the nonconvex approach in value efficiency analysis initiated in the book.” (Antanas Zilinskas, Interfaces, Vol. 46 (1), 2015)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Extension of Data Envelopment Analysis with Preference Information
Book Subtitle: Value Efficiency
Authors: Tarja Joro, Pekka J. Korhonen
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7528-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7527-0Published: 03 January 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7889-9Published: 24 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-7528-7Published: 02 January 2015
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 191
Number of Illustrations: 57 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Management, Operations Research, Management Science