Modeling Performance MeasurementApplications and Implementation Issues in DEA Authors:

• Wade D. Cook,
• Joe Zhu
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ISBN: 978-0-387-24137-1 (Print) 978-0-387-24138-8  (Online)

About this book
MODELING PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT: Applications and Implementation Issues in DEA presents unified results from authors’ recent DEA research. These new DEA methodology and techniques are developed in application-driven scenarios that go beyond the identification of the best-practice frontier and seek solutions to aid managerial decisions. These new DEA developments are well-grounded in real world applications. Both DEA researchers and practitioners will find this book helpful. Theory is provided for DEA researchers for further development and possible extensions. However, it should also be mentioned that each theory is presented in practical terms with numerical examples, simple real management cases and verbal descriptions. It is felt that these concrete examples will be of value to researchers, students, and practitioners.
This book also provides an easy-to-use DEA software — DEAFrontier (www.deafrontier.com). This DEA software is an Add-In for Microsoft Excel and provides a custom menu of DEA approaches The DEAFrontier does not set limit on the number of units, inputs or outputs. With the capacity of Excel Solver, the software can deal with large sized performance evaluation tasks
MODELING PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT: Applications and Implementation Issues in DEA…
- addresses advanced/new DEA methodology and techniques that are developed for modeling unique and new performance evaluation issues,
- presents new DEA methodology and techniques via discussions on how to solve managerial problems, such as business process reengineering, benchmarking and continuous improvement. It can be used as a text/case book for graduate courses on operations management and covers many DEA applications such as highway maintenance, technology implementation, a variety of R&D and allocation cost scenarios, use of DEA in a MCDM context, etc.
- provides an easy-to-use DEA software — DEAFrontier (www.deafrontier.com) which is an excellent tools for both DEA researchers and practitioners. This DEA software is an Add-In for Microsoft Excel and provides a custom menu of DEA approaches.

Table of contents / Sample pages Preface.- Data Envelopment Analysis.- Measuring Efficiency of Highway Maintenance Patrols.- Prioritizing Highway Accident Sites.- Benchmarking Models: Evaluating the effect of e-business activities.- Factor Selection Issues in Bank Branch Performance.- Multicomponent Efficiency Measurement in Banking.- DEA and Multicriteria Decision Modeling.- Modeling Rank Order Data.- Resource Allocation in an R and D Department.- Resource Constrained DEA.- Multicomponent Efficiency: Measurement and core business identification in multiplant firms.- Implementation of Robotics: Identifying Efficient Implementors.- Setting Performance Targets for New DMUs.- Aggregating Preference Rankings.- Ranking Players in Round Robin Tournaments.- Context-Dependent DEA: Models and extension.- Evaluating Power Plant Efficiency: Hierarchical Models.- Subject Index.

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"… Generell ist die DEA ein interessanter Ansatz zur Messung der relativen Effizienz und zur Performancebewertung verschiedenster Entscheidungseinheiten. Dabei bewegt sich das Buch ... zwischen wissenschaftlichem Anspruch und praktischer Anwendung. ... Alleinstellungsmerkmal des Buches ist, dass es die Vielfalt der Einsatzmöglichkeiten der DEA aufzeigt und zugleich vermittelt, inwieweit methodische Anpassungen erforderlich und zu realisieren sind. Insoweit setzt es vertiefte DEA-Kenntnisse voraus ... Der Aufbau des Buches ist durch die anwendungsbezogene Schwerpunktsetzung didaktisch gelungen ... Anwendern aus ... Wissenschaft und ... Unternehmenspraxis kann das Buch ... empfohlen werden ..." (Matthias Meyer, in: OR News - OR Spectrum, July 2008, Issue 33, S. 66 f.)