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Hao Peng, Qingqing Cao, Jesse Dodge, Matthew E. Peters + 10 more
'Jared Fernandez' 'Tom Sherborne' 'Kyle Lo' 'Sam Skjonsberg' 'Emma Strubell' 'Darrell Plessas' 'Iz Beltagy' 'Evan Pete Walsh' 'Noah A. Smith' 'Hannaneh Hajishirzi'] Rising computational demands of modern natural language processing (NLP) systems have increased the barrier to entry for cutting-edge research while posing…
Vahid Kayvanfar, Hamed Baziyad, Shaya Sheikh, Frank Werner
Evaluating the efficiency of organizations and branches within an organization is a challenging issue for managers. Evaluation criteria allow organizations to rank their internal units, identify their position concerning their competitors, and implement strategies for improvement and development purposes. Among the…
Tian Tian, Hong Yan, Youli Xu, Reza Rostamzadeh
The development of Happy Farmhouse tourism in China faces significant challenges of homogenized competition and low operational efficiency. This study aims to evaluate the operational efficiency of these farmhouses and compare the performance across three distinct business entity models: individual farmer, farmer…
Jih-Shong Wu, Gilbert Ramirez
As human lifespan increases and the need for elderly care grows, the demand for healthcare services and its associated costs have surged, causing a decline in the operational efficiency of universal healthcare. This has created an imbalance in medical services across different regions, posing a long-standing challenge…
Siripattra Juthamanee, Aimutcha Wattanaburanon, Yuvadee Rodjarkpai, Saowanee Thongnopakun + 1 more
DEA was first used to measure efficiency by Charnes et al. (), building on Farrell’s () productive efficiency ideas. The basic model of DEA is fractional programming (FP), which is difficult to compute. Later, the FP model was modified into linear programming (LP), making it easy to calculate efficiency values. DEA LP…
Jan Kubanek
Understanding how humans and animals can make effective decisions given natural constraints would have a profound impact on economics, psychology, ecology, and related fields. Neoclassical economics provides a formalism for optimal decisions, but the apparatus requires a large number of evaluations of the decision…
Bei He, Xiaoyun Du, Junkang Li, Dan Chen + 1 more
Finding solutions to the challenges posed by China’s urbanization is an urgent, pressing global concern. An effective approach for evaluating the ecological well-being performance (EWP) is a guideline for improvement. Most previous studies have focused on the evaluation of EWP efficiency without considering the…
Zohreh Shaker, Zainab Shaker, Mohsen Barouni, Asma Sabermahani
Background Medical diagnostic laboratories are an essential work environment that plays an important role in diagnosing, treating, and being sensitive to diseases. One way to evaluate laboratories’ performance is to calculate their efficiency. This study investigates the efficiency of laboratories that are related to…
Hashem Omrani, Raha Imanirad, Adam Diamant, Utkarsh Verma + 2 more
We propose an approach for dynamic efficiency evaluation across multiple organizational dimensions using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The method generates both dimension-specific and aggregate efficiency scores, incorporates desirable and undesirable outputs, and is suitable for large-scale problem settings. Two…
Thomas Standfuß, Georg Hirte, Michael Schultz, Hartmut Fricke
We systematically study cornerstones that must be solved to define an air traffic control benchmarking system based on a Data Envelopment Analysis. Primarily, we examine the appropriate decision-making units, what to consider and what to avoid when choosing inputs and outputs in the case that several countries are…
Saif Ullah, Abdul Majeed, József Popp, Yuriy Bilan
envelopment analysis approach Determinants of bank’s efficiency in an emerging economy Authors: ['Saif Ullah' 'Abdul Majeed' 'József Popp' 'Yuriy Bilan'] This study aims to assess the influence of internal and external factors on the Efficiency of banks in Pakistan using the Data Envelopment Analysis Approach (DEA).…
Wenbin Li, Jian Cai, C. Wang, Y. Chen + 3 more
Efficiency Authors: ['Wenbin Li' 'Jian Cai' 'C. Wang' 'Y. Chen' 'Xu Jun' 'Jian‐xin Zhao' 'Y. Chen'] Abstract. This paper focuses on studying the evaluation index system for the production efficiency of tobacco enterprises. Considering the limitations of existing evaluation methods in accurately assessing the production…
M. Zulfakhar Zubir, A. Azimatun Noor, A. M. Mohd Rizal, A. Aziz Harith + 4 more
'A. Aziz Harith' 'M. Ihsanuddin Abas' 'Zuriyati Zakaria' 'Anwar Fazal A. Bakar' 'André Ramalho'] The efficiency and productivity evaluation process commonly employs Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a performance tool in numerous fields, such as the healthcare industry (hospitals). Therefore, this review examined…
Jan Kubanek
How humans and animals distribute their behavior across choice options has been of key interest to economics, psychology, ecology, and related fields. Neoclassical and behavioral economics have provided prescriptions for how decision-makers can maximize their reward or utility, but these formalisms are used by…
Erniel B. Barrios, Nur Syazwani Mazlan, Lim Foo Weng, Paolo Victor T. Redondo + 2 more
A strategy for incorporating higher-frequency determinants of inefficiency into the stochastic frontier models with production function indicators compiled at lower frequencies is proposed. Furthermore, the problem with positive skewness in stochastic frontier models is resolved by postulating a logistic function for…
Sterling Baird, Jason R. Hall, Taylor D. Sparks
Would you rather search for a line inside a cube or a point inside a square? Physics-based simulations and wet-lab experiments often have symmetries (degeneracies) that allow reducing problem dimensionality or search space, but constraining these degeneracies is often unsupported or difficult to implement in many…
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Biological processes underpin centralized wastewater treatment but are difficult to deploy at small scale. Thermomechanical and thermochemical approaches could enable household-level sanitation, yet their economic and environmental potential remains unclear. We assessed two prototype household reinvented toilets…
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Continuous manufacturing processes offer significant advantages over batch processes, including easier scalability, reduced costs, lower raw material and solvent consumption, and improved energy efficiency. A robust techno-economic assessment is therefore essential to evaluate and facilitate the adoption of such…
Siyuan Luo, Pierre-Luc Germain, Ferdinand von Meyenn, Mark D. Robinson
Benchmarks are crucial to understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the growing number of tools for single-cell and spatial omics analysis. A key task is to distinguish subpopulations within complex tissues, where evaluation typically relies on external clustering validation metrics. Different metrics often lead to…
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Selection of efficient multi-step synthesis routes is a fundamental challenge in organic synthesis. Comparing different routes involves numerous parameters, economic considerations, and integration of nuanced chemical knowledge. While computer-aided synthesis planning (CASP) tools can generate synthetic routes…
Bingyu Jiang, Pierre Klemmer, Marek Ostaszewski
Boolean networks have become essential tools for modeling gene regulatory systems and understanding cellular decision-making processes, but their optimization for biological relevance remains challenging. This study presents a comprehensive benchmark comparison of three prominent Boolean network optimization…
Yalin Li, John Trimmer, Steven Hand, Xinyi Zhang + 6 more
The pursuit of sustainability has catalyzed broad investment in the research, development, and deployment (RD&D) of innovative water, sanitation, and resource recovery technologies, yet the lack of transparent and agile methodologies to navigate the expansive landscape of technology development pathways remains a…