[PDF] Top 20 Pesqui. Oper. vol.22 número2

... In this sense, the special issue of Pesquisa Operacional devoted to DEA and MCDA intend to stimulate theoretical research aiming at adequately solving real world problems, faithfully[r] ... See full document

... Moreover, the important and decisive actions of rural enterprise in these advanced regions of Brazil has been relatively successful in finding local solutions to regional agricultural [r] ... See full document

... The analysis will be made using all of the municipalities with over 5000 inhabitants located in specific collection zones within the Valencia Region (132 municipalities, almost 25% of [r] ... See full document

... The problem of distinguishing efficient from inefficient in DEA and that of finding the extreme elements (points, for variable, increasing and decreasing returns to scale and rays, for[r] ... See full document

... The problem of smoothing a DEA frontier with only one output consists of looking for a function which minimises the arc length (or its n-dimensional generalisation), which contains the[r] ... See full document

... Table 4.5 presents the efficiency scores derived from randomization of hospital ranks after an ideal fictitious hospital with maximum rank in every concept is added to allow for discri[r] ... See full document

... IT(1,k) – number of recipients of Bachelor degrees (BS or equivalent) granted by the department (in proportion to department’s teaching load on each Bachelor program of the University)[r] ... See full document

... Within the same context, companies belonging to Cluster B (CTBC Telecom MS e SP, Telesp e Telesc) would be the first addressed by ANATEL in order to explain their low performance in te[r] ... See full document

... The original data were expressed in thousands of Lei in current prices. The data finally used for analysis are expressed in thousands of Lei and constant prices for 1996. We made use of annual price indices (National ... See full document

... In order to provide the DM under this framework with a manageable number of strategies under risk for evaluation, we introduce a method for approximating the imprecise utility efficien[r] ... See full document

... We apply the first phase of the methodology described in the previous topic, choosing the suppliers competing for the “Best Suppliers of Materials to PETROBRAS Award – Campos Basin”, t[r] ... See full document

... This paper has been structured into five sections: Section 1 contextualizes project management with emphasis on the selection of project team members, and also defines the objective of[r] ... See full document

... O número de citações de artigos publicados em uma revista é, atualmente, um dentre os principais indicadores utilizados e, para que os indicadores da revista Pesquisa Operacional sej[r] ... See full document

... More precisely, this index gauges the quality of approximation dividing by the total number of pairs of objects in the universe U the sum of the number of pairs of indiscernible object[r] ... See full document

... We normalized the MACBETH results (fixed the sum in 100 and then divided the results by 100) in order to allow the outcomes to be used as lower and upper bounds in the Virtual Weights [r] ... See full document

... In this paper, we describe a Fortran implementation of PDNET, a primal-infeasible dual- feasible interior point method for solving large--scale linear network flow problems. The subrout[r] ... See full document

... The new traversing problem in this MOSP graph is presented in Yanasse (1997b), “ follow the sequence of the arcs and sequence a pattern P j when, for the first time, all the vertices [r] ... See full document

... Table 3 – Responses (maize yield, groundnut yield, efficiency) for a factorial design laid out as a randomized block design with a split plot structure.. The first index in treatment c[r] ... See full document

... This paper has presented a hybrid model for availability assessment of fault tolerant systems based on the integration of continuous time homogeneous semi-Markov processes specified in[r] ... See full document

... In order to try to represent the consequence function, it can be assumed that this function is a weighted sum of probability distributions, and each probability distribution represents[r] ... See full document