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Using DEA as a tool for MCDM: some remarks

Denis Bouyssou

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 1999, vol. 50, issue 9, 974-978

Abstract: Abstract The purpose of this paper is to study proposals to use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a tool for Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). We first recall, using a simple model, the equivalence between the concept of ‘efficiency’ in DEA and that of ‘convex efficiency’ in MCDM. Examples are then used to show that various techniques that have been proposed in the DEA literature to deal with MCDM problems violate simple normative properties that are commonly accepted. We conclude with some remarks on the possible areas of interaction between DEA and MCDM.

Keywords: MCDM; DEA; efficiency; convex efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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