A ‎D‎ivergence Measure for Combining Super-Efficiency Scores in Performance Measurement of Two-Stage Production Systems

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Department of Mathematics‎, ‎Qazvin Branch‎, ‎Islamic Azad University‎, ‎Qazvin‎, ‎Iran‎.

2 ‎Department of Mathematics‎, ‎Karaj Branch‎, ‎Islamic Azad University‎, ‎Karaj‎, ‎Iran.‎

Abstract

In the conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) internal sub-processes of the production units are ignored. The current paper develops a network-DEA super-efficiency model to compare the performance of efficient network systems. A new ranking method is developed by aggregating the computed super-efficiency scores with a J-divergence measure. The proposed approach is then applied to evaluate wheat productions in Iran provinces.

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