Frontier assignment method for sensitivity analysis of data envelopment analysis

Author

Naito, Akio ; Aoki, Shingo ; Tsuji, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Intell. Syst., Osaka Prefecture Univ., Osaka, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

11-14 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

2515

Lastpage

2520

Abstract

To extend the sensitivity analysis for DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis), this paper proposes FA-DEA (Frontier Assignment based DEA). The basic idea of FA-DEA is to allow decision maker to decide frontier intentionally while the fundamental DEA and super-DEA decides frontier computationally. Then FA-DEA provides chances to exclude extra-influential DMU (Decision Making Unit) and finds extra-ordinal DMU. Therefore, FA-DEA has the opportunities to find valuable information from a variety of viewpoints. Simple numerical study has shown the effectiveness of FA-DEA as a data mining tool and the difference from the traditional sensitivity analysis.

Keywords

data envelopment analysis; decision making; sensitivity analysis; data envelopment analysis; decision making unit; frontier assignment; sensitivity analysis; Computational intelligence; Computer science; Cybernetics; Data envelopment analysis; Data mining; Decision making; Intelligent systems; Risk analysis; Sensitivity analysis; USA Councils; Data Envelopment Analysis; Data Mining; Decision Making Support; Linear Programming; Risk Finding; Sensitivity Analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2009. SMC 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2793-2

Electronic_ISBN

1062-922X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346331

Filename

5346331