Network Data Envelopment Analysis: Foundations and Extensions

Introduction.- Output-Input Ratio Efficiency Measures.- Distance Function Efficiency Measures.- Slacks-based Efficiency Measures.- Efficiency Measurement in Special Production Stages.- Special Types of Input and Output Factors.- Special Types of Data.- Changes of Efficiency over Time.- Basic Ideas in Efficiency Measurement for Network Systems.- Basic Two-stage Systems.- General Two-stage Systems.- General Multi-stage Systems.- Parallel Systems.- Hierarchical Systems.- Assembly and Disassembly Systems.- Mixed Systems.- Dynamic Systems.- Epilogue.

Chiang Kao is a University Chair Professor of Industrial and Information Management at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. He received his MS in Operations Research and PhD in Forest Management from Oregon State University, and did post-doctoral research in Economics also at Oregon State University. After joining Cheng Kung University, he has taken sabbatical leaves at Purdue University, Aachen University of Technology (Germany), INSEAD and University of Paul Sabatier (France), and University of Bologna (Italy). He has also been hired by the Computer Science Department of Southwest Texas State University.

Professor Kao has also held administrative posts at Cheng Kung University, including Chairman of Department of Industrial and Information Management, Dean of College of Management, and President of the University. He has published more than fifty papers on DEA in international journals. Of which, twenty are related to network DEA. Currently, he serves as a member of the Editorial Board for European Journal of Operational Research and an Associate Editor for Omega.