Efficiency measurement in fuzzy additive data envelopment analysis

Adel Hatami-Marbini, Madjid Tavana, Ali Emrouznejad and Saber Saati

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2012, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-20

Abstract: Performance evaluation in conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) requires crisp numerical values. However, the observed values of the input and output data in real-world problems are often imprecise or vague. These imprecise and vague data can be represented by linguistic terms characterised by fuzzy numbers in DEA to reflect the decision-makers’ intuition and subjective judgements. This paper extends the conventional DEA models to a fuzzy framework by proposing a new fuzzy additive DEA model for evaluating the efficiency of a set of decision-making units (DMUs) with fuzzy inputs and outputs. The contribution of this paper is threefold: (1) we consider ambiguous, uncertain and imprecise input and output data in DEA, (2) we propose a new fuzzy additive DEA model derived from the ?-level approach and (3) we demonstrate the practical aspects of our model with two numerical examples and show its comparability with five different fuzzy DEA methods in the literature.

Keywords: fuzzy additive DEA; data envelopment analysis; fuzzy sets theory; DMUs; decision making units; fuzzy additive models; performance evaluation; efficiency measurement; ambiguous data; imprecise data; uncertain data; fuzzy logic. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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