In this paper, we propose to integrate particle swarm optimization algorithm into cultural algorithms frame to develop a more efficient cultural particle swarm algorithms (CPSA) for constrained multi-objective optimization problem. In our CPSA, the population space of cultural algorithms consists of n+1 subswarms which are used to search for the n single-objective optimums and an additional mul...

The current paper proposes a slack-based version of the Super SBM, which is an alternative superefficiency model for the SBM proposed by Tone. Our two-stage approach provides the same superefficiency score as that obtained by the Super SBM model when the evaluated DMU is efficient and yields the same efficiency score as that obtained by the SBM model when the evaluated DMU is inefficient. The p...

Diamond and Mirrlees (1971) provide sufficient conditions for a secondbest Pareto efficient allocation with linear commodity taxation to require efficient production when a finite set of consumers have continuous single-valued demand functions. This paper considers a continuum economy allowing indivisible goods, other individual non-convexities, and some forms of non-linear pricing for consumer...

Abstract This paper examines the implications of habit formation in private and public goods consumption for Pareto-efficient provision goods, based on a two-period model with nonlinear taxation. Under weak leisure separability, if good is flow-variable such that government directly decides level each period, leads to modification policy rule if, only degrees habituation differ consumption. By ...

Envy-freeness and Pareto Efficiency are two major goals in welfare economics. The existence of an allocation that satisfies both conditions has been studied for a long time. Whether items indivisible or divisible, it is impossible to achieve envy-freeness ex post even the case people items. In contrast, this work, we prove that, any cardinal utility functions (including complementary utilities ...