The healthcare sector in general and hospitals in particular represent a main application
area for Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). This paper reviews 262 papers of DEA …

Abstract As Big Data has undergone a transition from being an emerging topic to a growing
research area, it has become necessary to classify the different types of research and …

The digital economy is driving a new round of technological innovation and industrial
transformation. This study estimates the level of China's digital economy by adopting the …

The study investigates the impact of infrastructure, industrialization, and innovation in
improving environmental efficiency in Africa toward addressing the pressing needs for …

In this paper we try to assess the quality of growth for provinces in China over the period of
1997–2015. To do so we calculate a set of Green total factor productivity (or GTFP) indexes …

The design of cooperative applications combining several unmanned aerial and aquatic
vehicles is now possible thanks to the considerable advancements in wireless …

This book covers recent advances in efficiency evaluations, most notably Data Envelopment
Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) methods. It introduces the underlying …

This paper analyzes productivity growth in 17 OECD countries over the period 1979-1988. A
nonparametric programming method (activity analysis) is used to compute Malmquist …

The use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) in China's regional energy efficiency and
carbon emission efficiency (EE&CE) assessment has received increasing attention in recent …

This chapter describes network DEA models, where a network consists of sub-technologies.
A DEA model typically describes a technology to a level of abstraction necessary for the …