Classifying the Usage of Multiple Objective Decision Making Techniques in Data Envelopment Analysis

Abstract

There exist a wide range of research studies that apply the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) techniques in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology and vice versa. Also, MCDM is divided into two subsets, Multiobjective Decision Making (MODM) and Multiattribute Decision Making (MADM). Early studies of DEA methodology utilized the MODM concepts and consequently, most studies in the relationships between MCDM and DEA have involved the usage of MODM techniques in DEA. There remains a large volume of papers in this field; yet, none of them classifies this relationship. Hence, in this research the authors focused on classification of this field that is divided into six groups. Then, some papers in each group are selected for consideration.