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Use of Data Envelopment Analysis as a Multi Criteria Decision Tool – A Case of Irrigation Management

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: In this paper, the use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a tool for Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is investigated for assessing various irrigation management strategies in terms of economic, environmental and social criteria. To carry out this task, an irrigation management research project report is used for the comparison of various MCDM and DEA rankings as well as providing the required data. The DEA methods called Charnes-Cooper-Rhodes (CCR), Banker- Charnes-Cooper (BCC) and Reduced-CCR (RCCR) are employed by the integration of criteria weights through the addition of assurance regions to improve discriminating power of the analysis, and to reach the ranking of strategies. The results indicate that DEA constitutes a valuable approach to be used alternatively or in addition to MCDM, and incorporating managerial preferences into the DEA methods provide correlated results with MCDM techniques.

Source: Mathematical and Computational Applications

DOI: 10.3390/mca16030669

Authors: Barış Yılmaz, Mehmet Yurdusev

Institution: Manisa Celal Bayar University

Language: English

Topic: Efficiency Analysis Using DEA

Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Clean water and sanitation

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,689