Recent years have seen a great variety of applications of DEA (Data
Envelopment Analysis) for use in evaluating the performances of
many different kinds of entities engaged in many different
activities in many different contexts in many different countries.
One reason is that DEA has opened up possibilities for use in cases
which have been resistant to other approaches because of the
complex (often unknown) nature of the relations between multiple
inputs and multiple outputs involved in many of these activities
(which are often reported in non-commeasurable units). Examples
include the maintenance activities of U.S. Air Force bases in
different geographic locations, or police forces in England and
Wales as well as performances of branch banks in Cyprus and Canada
and the efficiency of universities in performing their education
and research functions in the U.S., England, and France. These
kinds of applications extend to evaluating the performance of
cities, regions and countries with many different kinds of inputs
and outputs that include "social" and "safety-net" expenditures as
inputs and various "quality-of-life" dimensions as outputs which,
in turn, have led to dealing with important issues such as
identifying sites for new locations (away from Tokyo) for the
capital of Japan.
Introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis and Its Uses: With
DEA-Solver Software and References has been carefully designed by
the authors to provide a systematic introduction to DEA and its
uses as a multifaceted tool for evaluating problems in a variety of
contexts. The authors have been involved in DEA's development from
the beginning. William Cooper (with Abraham Charnes and Edwardo
Rhodes) is afounder of DEA. Lawrence Seiford and Kaoru Tone have
been actively involved as researchers and practitioners from its
earliest beginnings. All have been deeply involved in uses of DEA
in practical applications as well as in the development of its
basic theory and methodologies. The result is a textbook grounded
in authority, experience and substance.
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