(1) School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia;(2) Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Abstract:
We consider the problem of maximizing a linear fractional function on the Pareto efficient frontier of two other linear fractional functions. We present a finite pivoting-type algorithm that solves the maximization problem while computing simultaneously the efficient frontier. Application to multistage efficiency analysis is discussed. An example demonstrating the computational procedure is included.