The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) of Saaty (1980) is a popular method for solving multi-criteria decision problems involving qualitative data, and has been applied to the vendor selection process (Nydick and Hill, 1992; Barbarosoglu and Yazgac, 1997; Narasimhan, 1983; and Masella and Rangone, 2000). AHP...

One of the main applications of data envelopment analysis (DEA) is to integrate this approach with Malmquist productivity index (MPI) in order to calculate the process of changes in productivity of decision making unit (DMU) over different time periods. In this study, the development of novel...