Consider a group of K decision-makers involved in the research:they make pairwise comparisons of n elements. As a result of thepairwise comparisons, we get a set of K matrices, where represents a relative importance of element ito j, as assessed by the expert k. The...

STEP 1: Draw the hierarchical chart STEP 2: Define fuzzy numbers for performing the pair-wise comparisons STEP 3: Create the pair-wise comparison matrix using fuzzy numbers STEP 4: Calculate for each row of the pair-wise comparison matrix STEP 5: Compute the magnitude...

The literature of data envelopment analysis (DEA) encompasses many surveys, yet all either emphasize methodologies or do not make a distinction between methodological and application papers. This study is the first literature survey that focuses on DEA applications,...