One of the effective methods for improving the efficiency of an organization is benchmarking against successful organizations. Not only benchmarking could be a technique for identifying problems but also it greatly helps ...

Recent bankruptcy of big companies all over the world and fluctuations in Iran's stock market require that some methods be developed for the evaluation of companies' financial potential. Different models are used for the ...

This paper aims at providing a new model based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to prioritize project risks. It is clear that the large amounts of involved capitals, the long term of infrastructure projects' implementation, ...

Evaluate the performance of companies on the Stock Exchange using non-parametric methods is very important. DEA and DEA-R with the strategies for piecewise linear frontier production function and use of available data, ...

In this study, given the sequence dependent setup times, we attempt using the technique of Response Surface Methodology (RSM) to set the parameters of the genetic algorithm (GA), which is used to optimize the scheduling ...

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of Nigerian insurance companies using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Because of the unavailability of the required data, the study is limited to ten Nigerian ...