Designing healthier and acceptable diets using data envelopment analysis

Designing Network Topology Using Data Envelopment Analysis

The topology of a network seriously affects its cost, reliability, throughput, and traffic pattern, etc, so we need to simultaneously consider these multiple criteria, which have different units, when evaluating network topologies. However, ordinary methods of network topology design considered only a single criterion. DEA (data envelopment analysis) enables us to simultaneously evaluate multip...

The selection of a single and acceptable target in Data Envelopment Analysis

There are several systems in real situations that only accept a single and acceptable benchmark for efficiency improvement. For instance, when we are going to select a target for a country, the target country should be as close as the view of culture, economics and politics to the inefficient country. Otherwise, it would not be acceptable. Therefore, an inefficient country for several reaso...

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Efficient location by using data envelopment analysis

So far, many types of location models have been developed to find optimal spatial patterns according to different spatial metrics such as cost, coverage and availability.  The initial focus of these models is on the location availability of service providers and demand estimates, and some of these models are within the framework of multi-objective programming models.  After the advent of scienc...

Benefit-cost analysis using data envelopment analysis

Benefit-cost analysis is required by law and regulation throughout the federal government. Robert Dorfman (1996) declares “Three prominent shortcomings of benefit-cost analysis as currently practiced are (1) it does not identify the population segments that the proposed measure benefits or harms (2) it attempts to reduce all comparisons to a single dimension, generally dollars and cents and (3)...