Title
Context-Dependent Dea With An Application To Tokyo Public Libraries
Abstract
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) identifies an empirical efficient frontier of a set of peer decision making units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and outputs. The efficient frontier is characterized by the DMUs with an unity efficiency score. The performance of inefficient DMUs is characterized with respect to the identified efficient frontier. If the performance of inefficient DMUs deteriorates or improves (up to the frontier), the efficient DMUS still have an unity efficiency score. However, the performance of DMUs may be influenced by the context - e.g. a product may-appear attractive against a background of less attractive alternatives and unattractive when compared to more attractive alternatives. With an application to Tokyo public libraries, the current paper presents and demonstrates a context-dependent DEA which measures the relative attractiveness of libraries on a specific performance level against libraries exhibiting poorer-performance. The set of libraries-are grouped into different levels of efficient frontiers. Each efficient frontier (on specific performance level) is then used as evaluation context for the relative attractiveness. The-performance of the efficient libraries changes as the. inefficient libraries change their performance. The context-dependent DEA-can also be used to differentiate the performance of efficient DMUs. The context-dependent DEA provides finer DEA results with respect to the performance of all DMUs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1142/S0219622005001635
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & DECISION MAKING
Keywords
Field
DocType
data envelopment analysis (DEA), attractiveness, efficient, evaluation, context
Specific performance,Economics,Operations research,Efficient frontier,Attractiveness,Data envelopment analysis,Artificial intelligence,Frontier,Machine learning,Marketing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
3
0219-6220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
1.48
2
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yao Chen154440.02
Hiroshi Morita2121.48
Joe Zhu31762167.31