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ISBN 10: 0387452818 ISBN 13: 9780387452814

Casa editrice: Springer, 2006

This volume systematically details both the basic principles and new developments in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), offering a solid understanding of the methodology, its uses, and its potential. New material in this edition includes coverage of recent developments that have greatly extended the power and scope of DEA and have lead to new directions for research and DEA uses. Each chapter accompanies its developments with simple numerical examples and discussions of actual applications. The first nine chapters cover the basic principles of DEA, while the final seven chapters provide a more advanced treatment.

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About the Author:

Cooper if Foster Parker Professor of Finance and Management in the Graduate School of Business, University of Texas at Austin and the Nadya Kozmetsky Scott Centennial Fellow in the IC2 Institute.

Review:

`Finally, in my opinion Cooper, Seiford and Tone provides a well-chosen overview of important DEA methods. The book is written in a scientific manner, which is suitable for researchers and students as well as for practioners.'
Operations Research Specktrum 23: (2001)
`Overall, the book is a very useful reference text for researchers as well as students, particularly in engineering and business programms.'
Interfaces, 31:3(2001)