Young Operational Research Conference (YOR19), September 2015, Aston University, UK

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) stream

22th -24th, September 2015, Aston University, UK

YOR is a biennial conference intended for young academics and practitioners in the field of Operational Research. We would like to issue an invitation to take part in the Data Envelopment Analysis Stream of the YOR19.

This stream covers papers on the theme of efficiency and productivity in general and performance management in particular; both parametric and nonparametric applications will be considered. We especially welcome papers in:

  • Theoretical aspects of efficiency and productivity in DEA or parametric methods
  • Successful practical applications of performance measurement in real world (e.g. in banking, health, education, transportation …) using DEA or parametric methods.

If you are interested in making a presentation, please submit a title of your talk no later than 12th June 2015 at: http://tiny.cc/DEAatYOR2015

Deadline for submission abstract: 30th June 2015

Conference date: 22th to 24th September 2015

Conference Venue: Aston University, Birmingham, UK

Further information:  http://tiny.cc/DEAatYOR2015

Contact email:  Dr Konstantinos Petridis (k.petridis@aston.ac.uk )

One day DEA course, 6th July 2015

Performance Management with Data Envelopment Analysis

6th July 2015, OR Society, Birmingham, UK

This course is ideal for anyone interested in assessing the relative performance of organisational units – for example different regional offices, bank branches, sales outlets hospitals or schools.

You’ll get an introduction to the recent developments in DEA including weights restrictions, assessment under variables returns to scale and target setting and undertake illustrative assessments using advanced features of the Performance Improvement Management Software (PIM-DEA)

  • Learn about new methods in efficiency and productivity
  • Understand principles behind the non-parametric performance measurement
  • Get hands-on experience of the PIM-DEA software from the developers
  • See how to improve the efficiency and productivity of decision making
  • See how to apply DEA techniques to your own workplace

Course tutors: Ali Emrouznejad and Emmanuel Thanassoulis
Course date:  6th July 2015
Conference Venue: The OR Society, Birmingham, B1 2RX, UK
Deadline for registration: 25st June 2015
Further information:  http://tiny.cc/DEAJuly2015Booking
Contact email:  jennie.phelps@theorsociety.com
Telephone:  +44 (0)121 233 9300
Booking & reservation: http://tiny.cc/DEAJuly2015Booking

Call for Papers ‘Efficiency in Education and the use of big data’, November 2015, Leuven, Belgium

Workshop November 19-20, 2015

Deadline call for papers: August 25, 2015

This workshop aims to investigate and connect two related issues:

  • Efficiency in education: We welcome papers that examine innovative methodologies and/or applications in the field of efficiency in education. Obtaining more efficiency and productivity can be the mean for devoting resources to the quality of activities and outputs, improving the satisfaction of citizens who receive the services, and guaranteeing more effectiveness and equity for the public sector as a whole.
  • The use of big data: The traditional administrative datasets are today ‘big’ in the sense that the single organizations, in many sectors, periodically fill very detailed questionnaires and databases with not only structural and ‘hard’ information, but also with soft data about managerial practices, quality of outputs and inputs, etc. We welcome papers that propose methodological advancements or empirical applications for measuring the efficiency of public organisations’ activities and outputs, taking advantage of the availability of big data.

The most promising papers of the workshop will be invited for submission in a special issue of Public Policy and Administration, devoted to ‘Big data analytics and its use in the measurement of public organizations’ performance and efficiency’ (guest editors: Tommaso Agasisti & Kristof De Witte).

https://feb.kuleuven.be/drc/LEER/workshop-efficiency-in-education-2015/workshop-efficiency-in-education

5th Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, 5th October 2015, Porto, Portugal

5th Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis,  Challenges in University and Faculty Assessments
5th October 2015, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Rua Diogo Botelho, 1327, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal

Organised by:
Maria Conceição Silva Portela (Faculty of Economics and Management of UCP) (csilva@porto.ucp.pt)
Ana S. Camanho (Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto) (acamanho@fe.up.pt)

Abstract Submission – Deadline 30 June 2015
Registration and Fees – Deadline 01 September 2015

More details can be seen in http://www.feg.porto.ucp.pt/epaworkshop

International Conference on DEA in Economics and Finance 2015, June 4 – 6, 2015, VŠB, Technical University Ostrava

International Conference on DEA in Economics and Finance 2015 will be held on June 4th – 6th, 2015 in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Conference is held under auspices of VSB – Technical University of Ostrava in co-operation with the International DEA Society and the Czech Society for Operations Research.

Topics of the conference include but are not limited to parametric and non-parametric evaluation of:
Banking performance
Benchmarking
Cost and profit management
Credit risk evaluation
Diversification-consistency
Economic development
Economies of scope in financial services
Financial portfolio management and optimization
Mutual funds evaluation
Resource allocation and fund management
Risk management
Research papers in these fields are welcome.

Publication opportunities : After the conference the top papers presented at the conference will be suggested to the editors of several respectable journals such as Annals of Operations Research (ANOR), IMA Journal of Management Mathematics (IMAMAN), and Data Envelopment Analysis Journal (DEAJ).

For more information please visit: http://www.ekf.vsb.cz/icdeaef/en/index.html

DEA2015-13th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis

13th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis

DEA2015, Technische Universität (TU) Braunschweig, Germany, on August 24 to 28, 2015

Call for papers: (International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis)
The organizers of the 13th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis have the great pleasure of inviting you to participate in the DEA2015 Conference to be held at the Technische Universität (TU) Braunschweig, Germany, on August 24 to 28, 2015.

Being the eldest of its kind in Germany, the TU Braunschweig possesses a 250-year tradition of research and teaching. It is located close to the center of Braunschweig, a dynamic city founded in the early middle ages which lies at the foot of the Harz, a lovely low mountain range.

In this pleasant environment, DEA2015 plans to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the development of the DEA methodology and its applications to performance management in both public and private sectors. Theoretical and empirical papers on DEA and related fields in efficiency and productivity analysis are also invited.

Information and contact details

Website:      http://deaconference.com/dea2015/

Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dea2015

With warm regards,

Heinz Ahn, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Mohsen Afsharian, TU Braunschweig, Germany

Rajiv Banker, Temple University, USA
Ali Emrouznejad, Aston University, UK

Envelopment Analysis: Theory and Applications … Edited By R. Banker, A. Emrouznejad, H. Bal, I. Alp, M. A. Gengiz

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DEA2014: 12th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis, 14-17 April 2014, Malaysia

 


12th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis
DEA2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April, 14 to 17 

Call for papers: (International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis)
We are pleased to announce that the International Data Envelopment Analysis Society (iDEAs) will hold the 12th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from April 14 to 17, 2014. The conference will be held at the campus of the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. The campus is located about 10 kilometers from the heart of the city.

DEA 2014 plans to bring together scholars, researchers and practitioners interested in the development of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and its applications to performance management in public and private sectors. Theoretical and empirical papers on DEA and other related fields such as econometric methods for efficiency and productivity analysis are solicited for presentation at the conference

Information and contact details
Website:      http://deaconference.com/dea2014
Submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dea2014

Conference Program
April 14: Pre-conference workshops + Welcome reception
April 15: Opening ceremony + Full day conference + Gala Dinner
April 16: Half day city tour + Half day conference
April 17: Full day conference
April 18: Optional tours

Organizing Committee
Susila Munisamy, University of Malaya, MA
Behrouz Arabi, University of Malaya, MA

Rajiv Banker, Temple University, USA
Ali Emrouznejad, Aston University, UK

 

Amirteimoori, A. L. Khoshandam and A. Emrouznejad (2013). “Classifying flexible measures in data envelopment analysis: A slack-based measure.” Measurement, Accepted, In Press

Amirteimoori, A. L. Khoshandam and A. Emrouznejad (2013). “Classifying flexible measures in data envelopment analysis: A slack-based measure.” Measurement, Accepted, In Press

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has gained a wide range of applications in measuring comparative efficiency of decision making units (DMUs) with multiple incommensurate inputs and outputs. The standard DEA method requires that the status of all input and output variables be known exactly. However, in many real applications, the status of some measures is not clearly known as inputs or outputs. These measures are referred to as flexible measures. This paper proposes a flexible slacks-based measure (FSBM) of efficiency in which each flexible measure can play input role for some DMUs and output role for others to maximize the relative efficiency of the DMU under evaluation. Further, we will show that when an operational unit is efficient in a specific flexible measure, this measure can play both input and output roles for this unit. In this case, the optimal input/output designation for flexible measure is one that optimizes the efficiency of the artificial average unit. An application in assessing UK higher education institutions used to show the applicability of the proposed approach.

Ghasemi, M. R., J. Ignatius; A. Emrouznejad (2013) “A bi-objective weighted model for improving the discrimination power in MCDEA”, European Journal of Operational Research, Accepted, In Press

Ghasemi, M. R., J. Ignatius; A. Emrouznejad (2013) “A bi-objective weighted model for improving the discrimination power in MCDEA”, European Journal of Operational Research, Accepted, In Press

Lack of discrimination power and poor weight dispersion remain major issues in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Since the initial multiple criteria DEA (MCDEA) model developed in the late 1990s, only goal programming approaches; that is, the GPDEA-CCR and GPDEA-BCC were introduced for solving the said problems in a multi-objective framework. We found GPDEA models to be invalid and demonstrate that our proposed bi-objective multiple criteria DEA (BiO-MCDEA) outperforms the GPDEA models in the aspects of discrimination power and weight dispersion, as well as requiring less computational codes. An application of energy dependency among 25 European Union member countries is further used to describe the efficacy of our approach.