Cook, Wade D.; Seiford, Larry M. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 192 (2009) 1, pp. 1-17
This paper provides a sketch of some of the major research thrusts in data envelopment analysis (DEA) over the three decades since the appearance of the seminal work of Charnes et al. (1978) [Charnes, A., Cooper, W.W., Rhodes, E.L., 1978. Measuring the efficiency of decision making units....