many studies have been conducted to determine the efficiency of two-stage network structures in the recent years. the two-stage network with additional inputs to the second stage, in which the second stage is independent of the first stage are one of these structures. thus, there is a need for a model capable of calculating the efficiency of two-stage structures as well as efficiency of each st...

In the prior literature onmeasuring the efficiency of two-stage processes, there are both radial and non-radial methods of efficiency measurement. In some cases, non-radial methods which allow all inputs, intermediate measures and outputs to change non-proportionally are more appropriate than radial methods, but they do not ensure stage efficiency or allow for the efficiency decomposition of tw...

The non-radial DEA models [1] possess some specific features. First, multiple reference sets may exist for a production unit. Second, multiple supporting hyperplanes may occur on optimal units of the frontier. Third, multiple projections (a projection set) may occur in the space of input and output variables. All these features cause certain difficulties under measurement of returns to scale of...

Grifell-Tatje and Lovell (1999) made a contribution to the literature by decomposing profit change in extended radial DEA framework into six mutually exclusive components. Their approach appears to suffer from two shortcomings. First, radial models do not achieve full efficiency when slacks are present, and therefore, the contributions of each of these components are grossly underestimated. Sec...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been utilized worldwide for measuring efficiencies of banks, telecommunications, electric utilities and so forth. Yet, the existing models have some well known shortcomings that limit their usefulness. In DEA we have two fundamental approaches to measuring efficiency with very different characteristics; radial and non-radial. We demonstrate a method for linki...

hydraulic simulation of water flow in irrigation canals may reveal management shortcomings and help managers find solutions to them. hydraulic simulation models can be appropriate tools for understanding hydraulic behavior of irrigation systems. in the present study, the steady state hec-ras model was tested and compared with the mike 11 unsteady state model. a secondary irrigation canal in the...

in the present study, five modeling approaches of ra, mlp, mnn, gff, and canfis were applied so as to estimate the radial overcut values in electrochemical drilling process. for these models, four input variables, namely electrolyte concentration, voltage, initial machining gap, and tool feed rate, were selected. the developed models were evaluated in terms of their prediction capability with m...

Abstract In this paper, the industrial green efficiency of each province is measured by non-radial SBM model, and then makes a tobit regression environmental regulations with efficiency. Finally, heterogeneity region are analyzed.