具有包容关系的结构异质DEA效率评价方法

指标结构同质是数据包络分析(DEA)方法的基本假设之一;然而,现实问题的复杂性使得该假设常常难以完全被满足.针对具有包容关系的产出结构异质问题,通过解析决策单元(DMU)之间生产结构的内在关系来构建一种分阶段的DEA效率评价方法.该方法充分考虑了不同结构DMU的主观偏好,较好地规避了传统DEA方法在结构异质DMU效率评价过程中的不公平性.随后,该方法分别被拓展至投入结构异质和多重结构异质的情境中.最后,通过两个算例来说明本文方法的有效性与实用性.     

层次系统DEA模型的研究

经典的DEA模型视决策单元为黑匣子,不考虑内部结构.实际上,决策单元DMU可能具有各种各样的结构.对DMU进行效率评价时,尽管最初的输入和最终的输出相同,但考虑DMU结构与忽视DMU结构得到的效率不同.基于这样一种思想,提出了一种基于层次系统的DEA模型.     

基于Shephard距离函数的DEA TOPSIS方法研究

本文通过对Shephard距离函数的引入,正式构建了DEA TOPSIS决策单元排序方法的框架。本文首先定义了正(负)理想决策制定单元(DMU)以及相应的(反)生产可能集,然后在考虑正(负)理想DMU的条件下分别给出DMU的(反)效率评价模型以及对应的Shephard距离函数,然后基于评价对象到理想DMU相对接近度这一综合评价值给出了DMU的一个完全排序。最后,本文通过算例分析说明了该方法的有效性和实用性。     

基于网络DEA的供应链效率评价

数据包络分析(DEA)是评价决策单元(DMU)相对有效性的一种重要的工具.供应链效率评价是供应链管理的重要内容,对于衡量供应链目标的实现程度及提供经营决策都具有十分重要的意义.DEA是用于评价供应链效率的一种有效的方法,但是传统的DEA不考虑供应链的内部结构,对系统的相对效率评价偏高;而研究具有串联结构的供应链,考虑把部分中间产品作为最终产品输出,并增加额外中间投入的情形.基于此,建立相应的网络DEA模型,进行了相关理论的研究,给出了弱网络DEA有效的充分条件,以及整个系统弱网络DEA有效与各个子系统网络DEA有效的关系等.     

沿法线方向改进非DEA有效DMU

现有的非DEA有效DMU的改进方法造成DMU的投入或产出的波动太大,因而难以进行改进.提出了沿法线方向改进非DEA有效DMU的新方法.可以使非DEA有效DMU尽快到达有效前沿面,成为DEA有效,减小了波动幅度,并结合12所重点理工高校效评价的实际,验证了本方法的优势.     

链式网络DEA模型

数据包络分析(DEA)是评价决策单元(DMU)相对有效性的一种工具,现已得到广泛的应用.传统的DEA不考虑系统内部结构,而是将系统作为一个"黑箱"来度量效率.针对多阶段网络结构提出一个新的网络DEA模型—链式网络DEA模型.研究网络决策单元的网络DEA有效性及各个阶段的弱DEA有效性之间的关系,给出了网络DEA有效的充分必要条件.若网络决策单元不是网络DEA有效的,根据模型可以指出系统在哪些阶段是无效的.     

投入变量缺失系统DEA效率评价

针对投入变量缺失生产服务系统,提出一种基于DEA的相对效率评价方法.由于该系统的投入无法确知,首先需要依据产出对各决策单元(DMU)进行分组,并将其相对效率分解为组内效率与组间效率.对于组内效率,引人虚拟投入变量利用传统超效率DEA模型进行评价.而对于组间效率,则建立扩展的超效率DEA模型.最终以两类效率之积评价所有决策单元之间的相对效率.理论分析表明:投入缺失系统内决策单元有效的充要条件是其组内效率及其所在组的组间效率均有效.文章最后以基金项目评审为例进行实证分析,说明了本方法的合理性与可行性.     

基于DEA的二阶段网络系统的固定成本分摊方法

结合DEA和博弈的思想研究二阶段网络系统的固定成本分摊问题,将分摊成本作为新的投入,可以证明存在某种分摊使DMU整体效率达到最优,在此基础上考虑各个DMU之间以及DMU内部之间的博弈,首先建立讨价还价乘积最大化模型,求出各DMU唯一的分摊解,然后建立DMU子系统之间的讨价还价模型,给出子系统的分摊解,最终的分摊方案满足系统效率和子系统效率为1,与现有的方法相比具有一定的优势.     

基于关联网络DEA的供应链协调程度评价

本文给出了一种供应链网络协调程度的评价方法。研究思路是:首先,关联网络DEA能求出供应链网络上各个决策单元的DEA效率。其次,假设供应链网络实现了协调,那么网络上所有企业的DEA效率应该都为1。因此可以用供应链网络的实际DEA效率与协调状态(即所有决策单元DEA效率均为1)的差距,来评价供应链网络的协调程度。基于这一思路,本文研究了一个由3个供应商、2个制造商和3个零售商组成的供应链网络的协调评价问题,构建了基于关联网络DEA的类方差协调评价模型,实现了对供应链效率和协调性的同时测量,并通过数值算例验证了方法的实用性和有效性。     

基于超效率DEA模型的中国各地区钢铁行业能源效率及节能减排潜力分析

DEA方法对具有多投入和多产出指标的各个DMU之间的相对效率评价具有独特优势.首先应用超效率DEA模型对2005-2007年间中国各地区钢铁行业的全要素能源效率作出评价,并计算了此间中国各地区钢铁行业的节能减排潜力;然后利用Malmquist效率指数对钢铁行业能源利用效率的变动进行动态分析;最后应用Tobit回归模型对影响钢铁行业节能减排的因素进行了多元分析.     

Interval cross efficiency for fully ranking decision making units using DEA/AHP approach

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a popular technique for measuring the relative efficiency of a set of decision making units (DMUs). Fully ranking DMUs is a traditional and important topic in DEA. In various types of ranking methods, cross efficiency method receives much attention from researchers because it evaluates DMUs by using self and peer evaluation. However, cross efficiency score is usual nonuniqueness. This paper combines the DEA and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to fully rank the DMUs that considers all possible cross efficiencies of a DMU with respect to all the other DMUs. We firstly measure the interval cross efficiency of each DMU. Based on the interval cross efficiency, relative efficiency pairwise comparison between each pair of DMUs is used to construct interval multiplicative preference relations (IMPRs). To obtain the consistency ranking order, a method to derive consistent IMPRs is developed. After that, the full ranking order of DMUs from completely consistent IMPRs is derived. It is worth noting that our DEA/AHP approach not only avoids overestimation of DMUs’ efficiency by only self-evaluation, but also eliminates the subjectivity of pairwise comparison between DMUs in AHP. Finally, a real example is offered to illustrate the feasibility and practicality of the proposed procedure.     

模糊条件下的决策单元相对有效性评价

研究了模糊条件下决策单元的相对有效性评价问题。首先分析了模糊性因素对决策单元相对有效性的影响;然后根据模糊规划取截集方法和DEA评价的经济含义,给出了模糊DEA模型的求解方法;最后定义了决策单元的模糊DEA有效性以及进行有效性排序的平均置信有效性。文末是一个模糊DEA应用的例子。     

Overall performance evaluation: new bounded DEA models against unreachability of efficiency

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) performance evaluation can be implemented from either optimistic or pessimistic perspectives. For an overall performance evaluation from both perspectives, bounded DEA models are introduced to evaluate decision making units (DMUs) in terms of interval efficiencies. This paper reveals unreachability of efficiency and distortion of frontiers associated with the existing bounded DEA models. New bounded DEA models against these problems are proposed by integrating the archetypal optimistic and pessimistic DEA models into a model with bounded efficiency. It provides a new way of deriving empirical estimates of efficiency frontiers in tune with that identified by the archetypal models. Without distortion of frontiers, all DMUs reach interval efficiencies in accordance with that determined by the archetypal models. A unified evaluation and classification result is derived and the efficiency relationships between DMUs are preserved. It is shown that the newly proposed models are more reliable for overall performance evaluation in practice, as illustrated empirically by two examples.     

关于弱DEA有效性的本质特征

弱DEA有效单元与偏序集的极大元之间关系密切,从偏序集理论出发刻画了四种典型DEA模型所描述的弱DEA有效性的本质特征,揭示了可能集结构变化对弱DEA有效性的影响,并对弱DEA有效性的含义给出了新的解释.最后,探讨了偏序集理论在研究DEA数据变换性质、讨论DEA模型关系、分析决策单元变更以及指标增减对弱DEA有效性影响等方面的应用.     

A bargaining game model for measuring performance of two-stage network structures

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a method for measuring the efficiency of peer decision making units (DMUs), where the internal structures of DMUs are treated as a black-box. Recently DEA has been extended to examine the efficiency of DMUs that have two-stage network structures or processes, where all the outputs from the first stage are intermediate measures that make up the inputs to the second stage. The resulting two-stage DEA model not only provides an overall efficiency score for the entire process, but also yields an efficiency score for each of the individual stages. The current paper develops a Nash bargaining game model to measure the performance of DMUs that have a two-stage structure. Under Nash bargaining theory, the two stages are viewed as players and the DEA efficiency model is a cooperative game model. It is shown that when only one intermediate measure exists between the two stages, our newly developed Nash bargaining game approach yields the same results as applying the standard DEA approach to each stage separately. Two real world data sets are used to demonstrate our bargaining game model.     

Determining sources of relative inefficiency in heterogeneous samples: Methodology using Cluster Analysis,DEA and Neural Networks

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a powerful data analytic tool that is widely used by researchers and practitioners alike to assess relative performance of Decision Making Units (DMU). Commonly, the difference in the scores of relative performance of DMUs in the sample is considered to reflect their differences in the efficiency of conversion of inputs into outputs. In the presence of scale heterogeneity, however, the source of the difference in scores becomes less clear, for it is also possible that the difference in scores is caused by heterogeneity of the levels of inputs and outputs of DMUs in the sample. By augmenting DEA with Cluster Analysis (CA) and Neural Networks (NN), we propose a five-step methodology allowing an investigator to determine whether the difference in the scores of scale heterogeneous DMUs is due to the heterogeneity of the levels of inputs and outputs, or whether it is caused by their efficiency of conversion of inputs into outputs. An illustrative example demonstrates the application of the proposed methodology in action.     

Super-efficiency and DEA sensitivity analysis

This paper discusses and reviews the use of super-efficiency approach in data envelopment analysis (DEA) sensitivity analyses. It is shown that super-efficiency score can be decomposed into two data perturbation components of a particular test frontier decision making unit (DMU) and the remaining DMUs. As a result, DEA sensitivity analysis can be done in (1) a general situation where data for a test DMU and data for the remaining DMUs are allowed to vary simultaneously and unequally and (2) the worst-case scenario where the efficiency of the test DMU is deteriorating while the efficiencies of the other DMUs are improving. The sensitivity analysis approach developed in this paper can be applied to DMUs on the entire frontier and to all basic DEA models. Necessary and sufficient conditions for preserving a DMU’s efficiency classification are developed when various data changes are applied to all DMUs. Possible infeasibility of super-efficiency DEA models is only associated with extreme-efficient DMUs and indicates efficiency stability to data perturbations in all DMUs.     

Centralized resource allocation with stochastic data

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a technique based on mathematical programming for evaluating the efficiency of homogeneous Decision Making Units (DMUs). In this technique inefficient DMUs are projected on to the frontier which constructed by the best performers. Centralized Resource Allocation (CRA) is a method in which all DMUs are projected on to the efficient frontier through solving just one DEA model. The intent of this paper is to present the Stochastic Centralized Resource Allocation (SCRA) in order to allocate centralized resources where inputs and outputs are stochastic. The concept discussed throughout this paper is illustrated using the aforementioned example.     

Qualitative factors in data envelopment analysis: A fuzzy number approach

Qualitative factors are difficult to mathematically manipulate when calculating the efficiency in data envelopment analysis (DEA). The existing methods of representing the qualitative data by ordinal variables and assigning values to obtain efficiency measures only superficially reflect the precedence relationship of the ordinal data. This paper treats the qualitative data as fuzzy numbers, and uses the DEA multipliers associated with the decision making units (DMUs) being evaluated to construct the membership functions. Based on Zadeh’s extension principle, a pair of two-level mathematical programs is formulated to calculate the α-cuts of the fuzzy efficiencies. Fuzzy efficiencies contain more information for making better decisions. A performance evaluation of the chemistry departments of 52 UK universities is used for illustration. Since the membership functions are constructed from the opinion of the DMUs being evaluated, the results are more representative and persuasive.