The buffer allocation problem (BAP) has been widely studied by researchers while pursuing diverse research goals. Similarly, the cross-entropy method has been applied to a variety of optimisation problems with single objectives. In this article it is extended to the multiobjective case and proposed as a computationally economic approach to optimise at least two conflicting objectives of the BAP...

INTRODUCTION Efficiency evaluation of universities and faculties is one of the tools that help managers to identify the departments' strengths and weakness. The main objective of the present research was to measure and compare the technical efficiency of Shiraz school of medicine departments using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique. METHODS This cross-sectional and retrospective study ...

A fundamental weakness of the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is its weak discrimination in cases when a small number of decision making units are compared. Therefore, in such cases the basic DEA model (optimistic and pessimistic) is used in combination with other methods or additional constraints are added to the model. In this paper, the cross-efficiency method was combined with a self-rankin...

The trade-off between retrieval efficiency and effectiveness naturally arises in various domains of information retrieval research. In this paper, we argue that the users’ reaction to the system efficiency should be incorporated into the cascade model of the user behaviour and that an effectiveness-aware modification of a state-of-the-art evaluation metric can be derived. We propose to base the...

The fundamental weakness of a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is its weak discrimination in cases when small number of Decision Making Units (DMU) have been compared. Therefore in such cases the basic DEA model is used in combination with other methods or additional constraints are added to the model. In this paper, the Cross-efficiency method has been combined with the Potential Method (PM).