Background and Objectives: Evaluating the performance of clinical units is critical for effective management of health settings. Certain assessment of clinical variables for performance analysis is not always possible, calling for use of uncertainty theory. This study aimed to develop and evaluate an integrated independent component analysis-fuzzy-data envelopment analysis approach to accurate ...

in this paper imprecise target models has been proposed to investigate the relation between imprecise data envelopment analysis (idea) and mini-max reference point formulations. through these models, the decision makers' preferences are involved in interactive trade-off analysis procedures in multiple objective linear programming with imprecise data. in addition, the gradient projection type me...

Supplier evaluation and selection is a critical decision process for companies in order to gain competitive advantage. Decision models focusing on risk minimization have recently received increasing attention in supplier selection literature. In this paper, risk factors, which incorporate qualitative as well as quantitative data, are employed in fuzzy data envelopment analysis for obtaining eff...