two-stage network structure with final undesirable outputs

two-stage network structure with final undesirable outputs

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Articles in which nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) is applied to estimate the efficiency based on a network structure usually consider the desirable intermediary parts that are the first stage’s outputs to be used as the second stage’s inputs. In many real-life situations, the intermediary parameters include desirable and undesirable o...

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... section considers the concentrated method for evaluating the temporal twostage process's performance with the undesirable outputs as the final output. As seen in figure (2), the first stage's desirable size has been used for the second stage. The mean undesirable size of the system is left unchanged in this stage. ...