A common weight credibility data envelopment analysis model for evaluating decision making units with an application in airline performance
RAIRO. Operations Research, Tome 56 (2022) no. 2, pp. 911-930

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) model has been widely applied for estimating efficiency scores of decision making units (DMUs) and is especially used in many applications in transportation. In this paper, a novel common weight credibility DEA (CWCDEA) model is proposed to evaluate DMUs considering uncertain inputs and outputs. To develop a credibility DEA model, a credibility counterpart constraint is suggested for each constraint of DEA model. Then, the weights generated by the credibility DEA (CDEA) model are considered as ideal solution in a multi-objective DEA model. To solve the multi-objective DEA model, a goal programming model is proposed. The goal programming model minimized deviations from the ideal solutions and found the common weights of inputs and outputs. Using the common weights generated by goal programming model, the final efficiency scores for decision making are calculated. The usefulness and applicability of the proposed approach have been shown using a data set in the airline industry.

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DOI : 10.1051/ro/2022031
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Keywords: DEA, credibility theory, common weight, efficiency, airline
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Omrani, Hashem; Fahimi, Pegah; Emrouznejad, Ali. A common weight credibility data envelopment analysis model for evaluating decision making units with an application in airline performance. RAIRO. Operations Research, Tome 56 (2022) no. 2, pp. 911-930. doi: 10.1051/ro/2022031

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