[PDF] Top 20 Formative evaluation of electricity distribution utilities using data envelopment analysis

... line of research, some studies have also been carried out in order to assess whether changes in the firms’ ownership impacted on their ...privatisation of the 14 Peruvian electricity ... See full document

... terms of contribution to company profits, and efficiently, in terms of manpower and materials employed, is very difficult to ...review of the literature in this research area, discussing examples ... See full document

... the evaluation we discuss in this paper is predominantly formative, characterised by an effort to involve decision makers and to provide useful information for organisational management and ...interests ... See full document

... the electricity sector in Brazil, there are 3,152 generating projects, 64 distribution companies, 77 transmission utilities and 100 marketing agents (ABRADEE, ...to electricity consumption) ... See full document

... Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), developed by Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes in 1978, is a non-parametric technique which has proved very effective in benchmarking studies and is one of the most ... See full document

... For several years electricity distribution companies have been using efficiency and productivity analysis in the form of data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis [r] ... See full document

... light of the researched problem we apply the DEA method to ensure that the question of poverty is fully taken into account in programs and to use the resources to support the efforts provided by the poverty ... See full document

... ratings of teachers at the end of each semester can indirectly provide valuable information about teachers’ ...classes of freshmen students taking a course of English in a university of ... See full document

... Assim, para se aplicar o método DEA no setor portuário, González & Trujillo (2008) sugerem a segmentação do setor de acordo com uma atividade concreta ou um tipo de carga específic[r] ... See full document

... types of procedures and at least 17 different types of proceedings, with some taking on average 2 months to be resolved, whereas others take as long as 100 months to ...complexity of cases also ... See full document

... issue of efficiency in the Brazilian motor carrier industry using both DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) and SFA (Stochastic Frontier Analysis), the two dominant approaches to ... See full document

... externalities of education as “enhanced political ...measures of political interest and involvement in ...“quality” of participation of a given subset of citizens (as Hamilton (1983)); ... See full document

... 2.7% of meat production and 2.5% of milk production in Turkey derive from goats (TUIK, ...vegetation of Anatolia make it suitable for livestock rearing and especially for ...terms of goat ... See full document

... historical data for predicting future values with very good out of sample ...Research data are being tested for ADF and Causality Granger tests before entering the ANN to achieve the best lag ... See full document

... minds of some Chinese educators and could cause some confusion and conflict while dealing with formative ...views of some teachers, it is apparent that formative assessment can help teachers ... See full document

... use of IT and its consequences for companies is still ...influence of IT on large companies has been shown, and only recently has research regarding small and medium companies been ...use of IT, the ... See full document

... feature of the quasi-fixed inputs is that those are considered as outputs at the current period, while being treated as inputs at the next ...generate electricity as outputs. Most of the generated ... See full document

... o Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) é uma metodologia não-paramétrica desenvolvida por Charnes, Cooper e Rhodes (1978) que permite avaliar a eficiência relativa de unidades de decisão homogéneas – ... See full document

... Atualmente, Portugal dispõem de dois tipos de integração: a integração horizontal – que ocorre quando duas ou mais instituições prestadoras do mesmo nível de cuidados de saúde se junt[r] ... See full document

... metodologia Data Envelopment Analysis – DEA que são um conjunto de variados modelos de programação linear, que foram desenvolvidos para encontrar índices de eficiência para organizações que executam ... See full document