Evaluation efficiency of large-scale data set with negative data:an artificial neural network approach

Abstract

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is the most widely used methods for measuring the efficiency and productivity of decision-making units (DMUs). The need for huge computer resources in terms of memory and CPU time in DEA is inevitable for a large-scale data set, especially with negative measures. In recent years, wide ranges of studies have been conducted in the area of artificial neural network and DEA combined methods. In this study, a supervised feed-forward neural network is proposed to evaluate the efficiency and productivity of large-scale data sets with negative values in contrast to the corresponding DEA method. Results indicate that the proposed network has some computational advantages over the corresponding DEA models; therefore, it can be considered as a useful tool for measuring the efficiency of DMUs with (large-scale) negative data.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-015-1387-y
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Operations & Information Management
Additional Information: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11227-015-1387-y Funding: Czech Science Foundation (GACR project 14-31593S), through European Social Fund within the project CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0296 and SP2014/111, an SGS project of Faculty of Economics, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava.
Uncontrolled Keywords: artificial neural network,data envelopment analysis (DEA),Levenberg–Marquardt (LM),LM-DEA,negative data,SORM-DEA,Hardware and Architecture,Software,Information Systems,Theoretical Computer Science
Publication ISSN: 1573-0484
Last Modified: 19 Feb 2024 08:09
Date Deposited: 05 Mar 2015 14:15
Full Text Link: http://link.spr ... 1227-015-1387-y
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2015-07
Published Online Date: 2015-02-21
Authors: Toloo, Mehdi
Zandi, Ameneh
Emrouznejad, Ali (ORCID Profile 0000-0001-8094-4244)

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