Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis
(www.deafrontier.com/handbook.html)
edited by

William W. Cooper
University of Texas at Austin, USA


Lawrence M. Seiford
Dept. of Industrial & Operations Engineering, The University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA


Joe Zhu
Dept. of Management, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has grown into a powerful quantitative,
analytical tool for measuring and evaluating performance. It has been
successfully applied to a host of different entities engaged in a wide
variety of activities in many contexts worldwide. DEA's "data-oriented"
approach has been widely used in evaluating the efficiency and
productivity of many different kinds of entities engaged in many
different kinds of activities in many different contexts. DEA opens up
possibilities for use in cases which have been resistant to other
approaches because of the complex and often unknown nature of the
relationships between their many activities. In addition, DEA is used to
provide new insights into activities and entities that have previously
been evaluated by other methods.
This Handbook has been developed as a comprehensive reference for
reseachers, students and practitioners. It reflects the state-of-the-art
in Data Envelopment Analysis. It also represents a milestone in the
progression of a continuously advancing methodology. which has extensive
utility. Written by experts - who are the major research contributors to
the topics covered - the Handbook is organized in three sections. The
first section is a comprehensive examination of the basic DEA models and
DEA extensions. The second section consists of a collection of coverages
by persons experienced in applications to the areas of banking,
education, sports, retailing, health care, etc. The final section is a
review of current DEA software technology.
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