Data envelopment analysis with interactive variables

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to build a novel data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to evaluate the efficiencies of decision making units (DMUs). Design/methodology/approach – Using the Choquet integrals as aggregating tool, the authors give a novel DEA model to evaluate the efficiencies of DMUs. Findings – It extends DEA model to evaluate the DMU with interactive variables (inputs or outputs), the classical DEA model is a special form. At last, the authors use the numerical examples to illustrate the performance of the proposed model. Practical implications – The proposed DEA model can be used to evaluate the efficiency of the DMUs with multiple interactive inputs and outputs. Originality/value – This paper introduce a new DEA model to evaluate the DMU with interactive variables (inputs or outputs), the classical DEA model is a special form.