An investigation of the undesirable outputs congestion in data envelopment analysis

Authors

  • Soodabeh Nazari Department of Mathematics, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran
  • Mohsen Rostamy-Malkhalifeh Department of Mathematics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
  • Ali Hamzehee Department of Mathematics, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5377/nexo.v33i02.10785

Keywords:

Data Envelopment Analysis, Congestion, Undesirable outputs, Decision making units

Abstract

Congestion is one of the most important subjects in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) which helps the Decision Maker (DM) to decide about changing the size of units. The estimation of congestion has attractive advantages from different perspectives. For example, the total cost of a partiular DMU, in which the congestion occurs, can be reduced by the decreases in inputs. On the other hand, the output of units can be increased by the recognizing and eliminating the congestion of DMUs and so, the total profit of decision making units can be increased. Hence, the management is eager to know how to recognize and eliminate the congestion of units. Most of the existing methods to estimation of the congestion in the literature consider only the desirable outputs. This study focuses on the evaluation of congestion in the presence of undesirable outputs and proposes an approach to recognize the congestion of units. The method is demonstrated on a numerical example to illustrate the validity of the proposed method.

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Published

2020-12-31

How to Cite

Nazari, S., Rostamy-Malkhalifeh, M., & Hamzehee, A. (2020). An investigation of the undesirable outputs congestion in data envelopment analysis. Nexo Scientific Journal, 33(02), 468–475. https://doi.org/10.5377/nexo.v33i02.10785

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