Capacity utilization in data envelopment analysis with integer data

الموضوعات : International Journal of Data Envelopment Analysis

Balal karimi ¹ , Esmaeil Khorram ²

1 - (a) Department of Mathematics, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
2 - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Amirkabir University of Technology, Hafez Ave.; Tehran, Iran.

تاريخ الإرسال : 14 الإثنين , ربيع الأول, 1436 تاريخ التأكيد : 26 الثلاثاء , جمادى الأولى, 1436 تاريخ الإصدار : 26 الثلاثاء , جمادى الأولى, 1436

الکلمات المفتاحية: Data Envelopment Analysis, integer data, Capacity Utilization,

ملخص المقالة :

In the process of production, some of the inputs are fixed and cannot easily be changed, such as work hours of workers and hours of administrative or work, these types of inputs are fixed and others are variables. In this paper, by considering some inputs or outputs which are limited, their amounts must be integrated; this concept for integer data is extended. We show the importance of subject by bringing a real example of 25 branches of a bank.