The State of the Art in Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis

Emrouznejad, A., M. Tavana, A. Hatami-Marbini (2014) The State of the Art in Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis”, in Performance Measurement with Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis published in Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 309: 1:48, Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41372-8_1 .

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List of papers on Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis:

Abdoli, A., Shahrabi, J., Heidary, J.: Representing a composing fuzzy-DEA model to measure knowledge workers productivity based upon their efficiency and cost effectiveness. J. Univ. Comput. Sci. 17(10), 1390–1411 (2011)
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Amindoust, A., Ahmed, S., Saghafinia, A.: Using data envelopment analysis for green supplier selection in manufacturing under vague environment. Adv. Mater. Res. 622–623, 1682–1685 (2013)
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Azadeh, A., Anvari, M., Ziaei, B., Sadeghi, K.: An integrated fuzzy DEA–fuzzy C-means–simulation for optimization of operator allocation in cellular manufacturing systems. Int. J. Adv. Manuf. Technol. 46, 361–375 (2010)
Azadeh, A., Asadzadeh, S.M., Bukhari, A., Izadbakhsh, H.: An integrated fuzzy DEA algorithm for efficiency assessment and optimization of wireless communication sectors with ambiguous data. Int. J. Adv. Manuf. Technol. 52, 805–819 (2011)
Azadeh, A., Ghaderi, S.F., Anvari, M., Izadbakhsh, H.R., Jahangoshai Rezaee, M., Raoofi, Z. 2013a.: An integrated decision support system for performance assessment and optimization of decision-making units. Int. J. Adv. Manuf. Technol. 66 (5-8), 1031–1045
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Emrouznejad, A., Rostamy-Malkhalifeh, M., Hatami-Marbini, A., Tavana, M., Aghayi, N.: An overall profit Malmquist productivity index with fuzzy and interval data. . Comput. Model. 54, 2827–2838 (2011)
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