recently the concept of facility efficiency, which defined by data envelopment analysis (dea), introduced as a location modeling objective, that provides facilities location’s effect on their performance in serving demands. by combining the dea models with the location problem, two types of “efficiencies” are optimized: spatial efficiency which measured by finding the least cost location and al...

Recently the concept of facility efficiency, which defined by data envelopment analysis (DEA), introduced as a location modeling objective, that provides facilities location’s effect on their performance in serving demands. By combining the DEA models with the location problem, two types of “efficiencies” are optimized: spatial efficiency which measured by finding the least cost location and al...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) measures the relative efficiency of decision making units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. DEA-based Malmquist productivity index measures the productivity change over time. We propose a dynamic DEA model involving network structure in each period within the framework a DEA. We have previously published the network DEA (NDEA) and the dynamic DEA ...

The chromatophore of purple bacteria is an intracellular spherical vesicle that exists in numerous copies in the cell and that efficiently converts sunlight into ATP synthesis, operating typically under low light conditions. Building on an atomic-level structural model of a low-light-adapted chromatophore vesicle from Rhodobacter sphaeroides, we investigate the cooperation between more than a h...

in this article, non radial method of dynamic dea with the parallel network structure is presented and is used for calculation of relative efficiency measures when inputs and outputs do not change equally. in this model, dmu divisions under evaluation have been put together in parallel. but its dynamic structure is assumed in series. since in real applications there are undesirable inputs and o...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a technique for measuring the efficiency of decision making units. in all models of the dea, for each unit under assessment, the numerical efficiency is obtained which may be less than or equal to one. given the possible large number of functional units, we use various ranking methods for evaluating units. one of the rating methods is balance index and topsis....