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Efficiency evaluation of a small number of DMUs: an approach based on Li and Reeves's model

This paper deals with the evaluation of Decision Making Units (DMU) when their number is not large enough to allow the use of classic Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models. To do so, we take advantage of the TRIMAP software when used to study the Li and Reeves MultiCriteria DEA (MCDEA) model. We introduce an evaluation measure obtained with the integration of one of the objective functions along the weight space. This measure allows the DMUs joint evaluation. This approach is exemplified with numerical data from some Brazilian electrical companies.

data envelopment analysis; multiobjective linear programming; TRIMAP


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