Analyzing the solutions of DEA through information visualization and data mining techniques: SmartDEA framework

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• 作者：Alp Eren Akç ; ay^a ; ¹ ; Gü ; rdal Ertek^a ; ^{ertekg@sabanciuniv.edu} ; Gü ; lç ; in Bü ; yü ; kö ; zkan^b
• 关键词：Data envelopment analysis (DEA) ; Information visualization ; Data mining ; Decision support system framework
• 刊名：Expert Systems with Applications
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：62_09574174
• 类别：et
• 出版时间：July, 2012
• 卷：39
• 期：9
• 页码：7763-7775
• 文件大小：1245 K

摘要

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has proven to be a useful tool for assessing efficiency or productivity of organizations, which is of vital practical importance in managerial decision making. DEA provides a significant amount of information from which analysts and managers derive insights and guidelines to promote their existing performances. Regarding to this fact, effective and methodologic analysis and interpretation of DEA results are very critical. The main objective of this study is then to develop a general decision support system (DSS) framework to analyze the results of basic DEA models. The paper formally shows how the results of DEA models should be structured so that these solutions can be examined and interpreted by analysts through information visualization and data mining techniques effectively. An innovative and convenient DEA solver, SmartDEA, is designed and developed in accordance with the proposed analysis framework. The developed software provides DEA results which are consistent with the framework and are ready-to-analyze with data mining tools, thanks to their specially designed table-based structures. The developed framework is tested and applied in a real world project for benchmarking the vendors of a leading Turkish automotive company. The results show the effectiveness and the efficacy of the proposed framework.