In cost allocation problem, traditional DEA approaches allocate the fixed cost among a group of decision making units (DMUs), and treat the allocated cost as an extra input of each DMU. If costs except for the fixed cost are regarded as inputs in the cost allocation problem, then it is obvious...

The objective of this paper is to estimate the ecological efficiency of paper mills along the Huai River in China. The main characteristic of the ecological efficiency evaluation problem is that an undesirable output of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and a non-discretionary input (BOD emission...

Many studies have applied backpropagation feedforward neural networks (BPNNs) as an alternative to multivariate discriminant analysis (MDA) in attempts to predict business distress using relatively small data sets. Although these studies have generally reported the superiority of BPNNs vs. MDA,...

This paper proposes an aggregated ratio analysis model which can be utilized to evaluate relative efficiency of decision making units (DMUs). We show that our proposed ratio model is equivalent to the CCR DEA model. This equivalence property offers a great deal of opportunities for DEA to be...