Multicriteria approach to data envelopment analysis

With the aim of making Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) more acceptable to the managers' community, the Weights Restrictions approaches were born. They allow DEA to not dispose of any data and permit the Decision Maker (DM) to have some management over the method. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a Weights Restrictions DEA model that incorporates the DM preference. In order to perform that, we employed the MACBETH methodology as a tool to find out the bounds of the weights to be used in a Weights Restrictions approach named Virtual Weights Restrictions. Our proposal achieved an outcome that has an expressive correlation with three widely used decision-aids methodologies: the ELECTRE III, the SMART and the PROMETHEE I and II. In addition, our approach was able to join the most significant outcomes of all the above three Multicriteria decision-aids methodologies in one unique outcome.

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Main Author: Vieira Junior,Hélcio
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Operacional 2008
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-74382008000200004
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