New DEA/Location Models with Interval Data

Abstract

Recently the concept of facility efficiency, which defined by data envelopment analysis (DEA), introduced as a location modeling objective, that provides facilities location's effect on their performance in serving demands. By combining the DEA models with the location problem, two types of “efficiencies" are optimized: spatial efficiency which measured by finding the least cost location and allocation patterns for facilities, and the facility efficiency in serving demands which measured by DEA efficiency score. In this paper, location-allocation models with DEA in interval inputs and outputs environments are combined. A new pair of interval DEA/location models are constructed and run.