Books
Calculus II: A Correspondence Course, Extension Teaching and Field Service Bureau, The University of Texas, Austin,TX, 1975.
Proceedings of the First Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Institute of Industrial Engineers, Chicago, May 20-21, 1992. (with G.-A. Klutke, D. Mitta and B. Nnaji)
Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory, Methodology and Applications, Kluwer Academic Press, Boston, 1994. (with A. Charnes, W.W. Cooper, and Arie Y. Lewin)
Data Envelopment Analysis: A Comprehensive Text with Models, Applications, References and DEA-Solver Software, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2000. (with W.W. Cooper, and K. Tone)
Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2004. (with W.W. Cooper, and Joe Zhu)
Introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis and Its Uses with DEA-Solver Software and References, Springer, New York, 2006. (with W.W. Cooper, and K. Tone)
Data Envelopment Analysis: A Comprehensive Text with Models, Applications, References and DEA-Solver Software, Second Edition, Springer, New York, 2007. (with W.W. Cooper, and K. Tone)
Book Chapters
“Gradient States for Some Dualities with the C2 Extremal Principle,” in Quantitative Planning and Control, (Y. Ijiri and A. Whinston, eds.), Academic Press, New York, 1979. (with A. Charnes)
“Multistage Decision Problems with Multicriteria,” in Multiple Criteria Analysis: Operational Methods, (P. Nijkamp and P. Spronk, eds.) Gower Publishing Co. Ltd., Hampshire, England, 1981. (with P. L. Yu)
“Benchmarking Programming Languages,” in Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, (A. Kent and J. Williams, eds.), Marcel Dekker, New York, 1988. (with Richard S. Barr)
“Foundations of Data Envelopment Analysis for Pareto-Koopmans Efficient Empirical Production Functions,” in New Approaches to Modeling, Specification Selection and Econometric Inference, (William A. Barnett and A. Ronald Gallant, eds.), Cambridge University Press, 1989. (with A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper, B. Golany and J. Stutz)
“Contributions of Abraham Charnes to the Area of Statistical Analysis,” in Systems and Management Science by Extremal Methods, (A. Ben-Israel, A. Ben-Tal, B. Golany, K. Kortanek and J. Rousseau, eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1991. (with Patrick Brockett)
“Sensitivity of DEA to Models and Variable Sets in a Hypothesis Test Setting: The Efficiency of University Operations,” Creative and Innovative Approaches to the Science of Management, (Yuji Ijiri, editor), Quorum Books, New York, 1993. (with T. Ahn)
“The Mathematical Programming Approach to Efficiency Measurement” in The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications, H. Fried, K. Lovell, and S. Schmidt, editors, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993. (with I. Ali)
“An Envelopment-Analysis Approach to Measuring the Managerial Quality of Banks,” in Financial Engineering, H. Konno, D.G. Luenberger, and J.M. Mulvey, editors, AOR(45), J.C. Baltzer AG, 1993. (with R.S. Barr and T.F. Siems)
“A DEA Bibliography (1978–1992),” in Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory, Methodology and Applications, A. Charnes, W.W. Cooper, Arie Y. Lewin, and Lawrence M. Seiford, editors, Kluwer Academic Press, Boston, 1994.
From Efficiency Calculations to a New Approach for Organizing and Analyzing Data: Data Envelopment Analysis Fifteen Years Later, Baltzer Sciewnce Publishers, Netherlands, 1997. (with Arie Y. Lewin)
“Panorama de DEA: LA methode pour mesurer la performance dans le secteur des services,” in La Methode DEA: analyse des performances, P.-Y. Badillo and J.C. Paradi, editors, Hermes, Paris, 1999. (in French)
“Data Envelopment Analysis: theorie, methodologiy et applications,” in La Methode DEA: analyse des performances, P.-Y. Badillo and J.C. Paradi, editors, Hermes, Paris, 1999. (in French) (with A. Charnes, W.W. Cooper, and A.Y. Lewin)
“Data Envelopment Analysis: Twenty Years Out.” in Data Envelopment Analysis in the Service Sector, G. Westermann, editor, Gabler, Leverkusen, Germany, 1999.
“Classification Invariance in Data Envelopment Analysis,” in Uncertainty and Optimality: Probability, Statistics & Operations Research, J.C. Misra, editor, World Scientific, Singapore, 2002. Chapter 10, pp. 331-342. (with Joe Zhu)
“Data Envelopment Analysis: History, Models and Interpretations,” in Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis, W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford and J. Zhu, editors, Chapter 1, pp. 1-39, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. 2004. (with W.W. Cooper and Joe Zhu)
“Returns to Scale in DEA,” in Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis, W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford and J. Zhu, editors, Chapter 2, pp. 41-73, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. 2004. (with R.D. Banker, W.W. Cooper, and Joe Zhu)
“Sensitivity Analysis in DEA,” in Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis, W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford and J. Zhu, editors, Chapter 3, pp. 75-97, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. 2004. (with W.W. Cooper, Shanling Li, and Joe Zhu)
“Congestion: Its Identification and Management with DEA,” in Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis, W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford and J. Zhu, editors, Chapter 7, pp. 177-201, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. 2004. (with W.W. Cooper, H. Deng, and Joe Zhu)
“Data Envelopment Analysis: The Research Frontier – Special Issue dedicated to the memory of William W. Cooper 1914-2012,” Omega, The International Journal of Management Science, Volume 41, Issue 1, Pages 1-158 (January 2013). (with Wade D. Cook and Joe Zhu)
“Benchmarking Using Data Envelopment Analysis: Application to Stores of a Post and Banking Business,” in Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Aiding, edited by Sandra Huber, Martin Josef Geiger and Adiel T. de Almeida, International Series in Operations Research and Management Science 274, Springer, Switzerland, 2019. (with A. Raith and P Rouse)
Refereed and Invited Publications
“Extremal Principles and Optimization Dualities for Khinchin–Kullback–Leibler Estimation,” Mathematische Operationsforschung und Statistic, Series Optimization , Vol. 9, No. 1, 1978. (with A. Charnes and W. W. Cooper)
“Priority Ranking and Consensus Formation,”Management Science, Vol. 24, No. 16, 1978. (with W. D. Cook)
“Complements, Mollifiers and the Propensity to Disrupt,” International Journal of Game Theory, Vol. 17, Issue 1, 1979. (with A. Charnes and J. Rousseau)
“Potential Solutions of Linear Systems: The Multi-Criteria Multiple Constraint Levels Program,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 69, No. 2, 1979. (with P. L. Yu)
“Production Runs for Multiple Products: The Full Capacity Heuristic,” Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 31, No. 5, 1980. (with W. D. Cook and A. Saipe)
“Models for Optimal Project Grouping in Highway Maintenance,” International Journal of Urban Systems, Vol. 31, No. 5, 1980. (with W. D. Cook)
“On the Borda-Kendall Consensus Method for Priority Ranking Problems,” Management Science, Vol. 28, No.6, 1982. (with W. D. Cook)
“Priority Ranking and Consensus Formation: The Case of Ties,” Management Science, Vol. 28, No. 6, 1982. (with R. Armstrong and W. D. Cook)
“Mollifiers for Games in Normal Form and the Harsanyi-Selten Valuation Function,” International Journal of Game Theory, Vol. 11, Issue 3/4, 1982. (with A. Charnes and J. Rousseau)
“Scheduling Production Runs for N Products on a Single Machine: A Coverage Model,” Cahiers du Centre d’Etude de Recherche Op ́erationnelle, Vol. 24, No. 1, 1982. (with W. D. Cook and A. Saipe)
“R & D Project Selection in a Multidimensional Environment: A Practical Approach,” Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 33, No. 5, 1982. (with W. D. Cook)
“Priority Rankings and Minimal Disagreement: A Weak Ordering Model,” R.A.I.R.O Recherche op ́erationnelle/Operations Research, Vol. 16, No. 4, 1982. (with R. D. Armstrong, W. D. Cook and M. T. Kung)
“A Multiplicative Model for Efficiency Analysis,” Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Vol. 16, No. 5, 1982. (with A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper, and J. Stutz)
“Ordinal Ranking and Consensus Measures: A Survey,” Management Science/ Recherche Op ́erationnelle, Vol. 3, Part 2, 1982. (with W. D. Cook and M. Kress)
“The Geometry of Rank-Order Tests,” The American Statistician, Vol. 37, No. 4, 1983. (with W. D. Cook)
“Preference Ranking Models: Conditions for Equivalence,” Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Vol. 9, 1983. (with W. D. Cook and S. L. Warner)
“Invariant Multiplicative Efficiency and Piecewise Cobb-Douglas Envelopments ,” Operations Research Letters, Vol. 2, No. 3, August, 1983. (with A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper, and J. Stutz)
“Pareto-Optimality, Efficiency Analysis and Empirical Production Functions, Proceedings of the RGK Foundation Economic Conference, May 1984. (with A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper, B. Golany, and J. Stutz)
“An Ordinal Ranking Model for the Highway Corridor Selection Problem,” Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Vol. 9, No. 4, 1984. (with W. D. Cook)
“Foundations of Data Envelopment Analysis for Pareto-Koopmans Efficient Empirical Production Functions,” Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 30, No. 1/2, 1985. (with A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper, B. Golany and J. Stutz)
“An Axiomatic Approach to Distance on Partial Orderings,” R.A.I.R.O. Recherche op ́erationnelle/Operations Research, Vol. 20, No. 2, 1986. (with W. D. Cook and M. Kress)
“Information and Preference in Partial Orders: A Bimatrix Representation,” Psycometrika, Vol. 51, No. 2, 1986. (with W. D. Cook and M. Kress)
“Linear Programming and l1 Regression: A Geometric Interpretation,” Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Vol. 5, No. 4, 1987. (with J. Brennan)
“A DSS for Managing EEO/Affirmative Action Requirements,” Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1988. (with B.E. Graham-Moore)
“Computer Personalities: A New approach to User Compatibility,” Journal of Business and Psychology, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1988. (with John M. Penrose, Jr.)
“Microcomputer Users’ Preferences for Software Documentation: An Analysis,” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Vol. 18, No. 4, 1988. (with John M. Penrose, Jr.)
“Models, Extensions, and Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis,” Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1990.
“Translation Invariance in Data Envelopment Analysis,” Operations Research Letters, Vol. 9, No. 5, 1990. (with A.I. Ali)
“Recent Developments in DEA: The Mathematical Programming Approach to Frontier Analysis,” Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 46, 1990. (with R. Thrall)
“Strict vs Weak Ordinal Relations for Multipliers in Data Envelopment Analysis,” Management Science, Vol. 37, No. 6, 1991. (with A.I. Ali and W.D. Cook)
“A Data Envelopment Approach to Measuring Relative Efficiency: Case Analysis of Highway Maintenance Patrols,” Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol 20, No. 1, 1991. (with W.D. Cook, A. Kazakov and Y. Roll)
“Modeling Ordinal Preferences and Consensus,” in Operational Research ’90, (Hugh Bradley, ed.), Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1991. (with W.D. Cook and M. Kress)
“Transient Behavior of Tandem Queues: Finite Capacity Systems with Blocking,”International Journal of Systems Science, Vol. 22, No. 11, 1991. (with G.-A. Klutke)
“Prioritization Models for Frontier Decision Making Units in DEA,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 59, No. 2, 1992. (with W.D. Cook and M. Kress)
“Data Envelopment Analysis: Learning from Outliers,” Proceedings of the First Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Chicago, May 20-21, 1992
“Computational Accuracy and Infinitesimals in Data Envelopment Analysis,” INFOR, Vol. 31, No. 4, 1993. (with A.I. Ali)
“On the Use of Ordinal Data in Data Envelopment Analysis,” Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 44, No. 2, 1993. (with W. D. Cook and M. Kress)
“An Envelopment-Analysis Approach to Measuring the Managerial Quality of Banks,” Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 45, 1993, pp. 1-19. (with R. Barr and T. Siems)
“Forecasting Bank Failure: A Non-parametric Frontier Estimation Approach,” Recherches Economiques de Louvain, Vol. 40, No. 4, 1994, pp. 417-429. (with R. Barr and T. Siems)
“Components of Efficiency Evaluation in Data Envelopment Analysis,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 80, No. 3, 1995, pp. 462-473. (with A.I. Ali and C. Lerme)
“Data Envelopment Analysis in the Presence of Both Quantitative and Qualitative Data,” Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 47, No. 7, 1996, pp.945-953. (with W. D. Cook and M. Kress)
“A General Framework for Distance–Based Consensus in Ordinal Ranking Models,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 96, No. 2, 1996, pp. 392-397. (with W.D. Cook and M. Kress)
“Data Envelopment Analysis: The Evolution of the State-of-the-Art (1978–1995),” Journal of Productivity Analysis, Vol. 7, No. 2/3, 1996, pp. 99-137.
“Extending the Frontiers of Data Envelopment Analysis,” Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 73, 1997, pp. 1-11. (with A.Y. Lewin)
“A Bibliography for Data Envelopment Analysis (1978-1996),” Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 73, 1997, pp. 393-438.
“Identifying Excesses and Deficits in Chinese Industrial Productivity (1953-1990): A Weighted Data Envelopment Analysis Approach,” Omega-International Journal of Management Science, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1998, pp. 279-296. (with Joe Zhu)
“Sensitivity Analysis of DEA Models for Simultaneous Changes in All the Data,” Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 49, No. 10, 1998, pp. 1060-1071. (with Joe Zhu)
“Identifying Excesses and Deficits in Chinese Industrial Productivity (1953-1990): A Weighted Data Envelopment Analysis Approach (Correction),” Omega-International Journal of Management Science, Vol. 26, No. 6, 1998, pp. 786. (with Joe Zhu) [Seiford misspelled as Seifert]
“On Piecewise Loglinear Frontiers and Log Efficiency Measures,” Computers & Operations Research, Vol. 25, No. 5, 1998, pp. 389-395. (with Joe Zhu)
“Market Entity Behavior of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises,” Omega-International Journal of Management Science, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1998, pp. 263-278. (with S.C. Ray and Joe Zhu)
“Stability Regions for Maintaining Efficiency in Data Envelopment Analysis,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 108, No. 1, 1998, pp. 127-139. (with Joe Zhu)
“On Alternative Optimal Solutions in the Estimation of Returns to Scale in DEA,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 108, No. 1, 1998, pp. 149-152. (with Joe Zhu)
“An Acceptance System Decision Rule With Data Envelopment Analysis,” Computers & Operations Research, Vol. 25, No. 4, 1998, pp. 329-332. (with Joe Zhu)
“Infeasibility of Super-Efficiency Data Envelopment Analysis Models,” INFOR, Vol. 37, No. 2, 1999, pp. 174-187. (with Joe Zhu)
“Data Envelopment Scenario Analysis for Setting Targets to Electricity Generating Plants,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 115, No. 3, 1999, pp. 413-428. (with A.D. Athanassopoulos and N. Lambroukos)
“An Investigation of Returns to Scale in Data Envelopment Analysis,” Omega-International Journal of Management Science, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1999, pp. 1-11. (with Joe Zhu)
“Sensitivity and Stability of the Classifications of Returns to Scale in Data Envelopment Analysis,” Journal of Productivity Analysis, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1999, pp. 55-75. (with Joe Zhu)
“Characteristics on Stochastic DEA Efficiency – Reliability and Probability of Being Efficient,” Journal of Operations Research Society of Japan, Vol. 42, No. 4, 1999, pp. 389-404. (with H. Morita)
“Profitability and Marketability of the Top 55 US Commercial Banks,” Management Science, Vol. 45, No. 9, (1999), pp. 1270-1288. (with Joe Zhu)
“Preface,” in La Methode DEA: analyse des performances, P.-Y. Badillo and J.C. Paradi, editors, Hermes, Paris, 1999. (in French)
“A Unified Additive Model Approach for Evaluating Inefficiency and Congestion with Associated Measures in DEA,” Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 1, (2000) pp. 1-25. (with W.W. Cooper and Joe Zhu)
“Sensitivity and Stability Analysis in DEA: Some Recent Developments,” Journal of Productivity Analysis, Vol. 15, (2001), pp. 217-246. (with W.W. Cooper, S. Li, K. Tone, R.M. Thrall and Joe Zhu)
“Slacks and Congestion: Response to a Comment by R. Fare and S. Grosskopf,” Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Vol. 35, No. 3, (2001), pp. 205-215. (with W.W. Cooper and Joe Zhu)
“GOALI: A National Science Foundation University–Industry Liaison Program,” INTERFACES, Vol. 32, No. 2, (2002), pp. 56-62. (with L. Martin-Vega and D. Senich)
“Modeling Undesirable Factors in Efficiency Evaluation,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 142, (2002), pp. 16-20. (with Joe Zhu)
“Value Judgment versus Allocative Efficiency: A Case of Tennessee County Jails,” Journal of Management Sciences and Regional Development, Issue 4, (2002), pp. 89-98. (with Joe Zhu)
“Context-dependent Data Envelopment Analysis: Measuring Attractiveness and Progress,” OMEGA, Vol. 31, Issue 5, (2003), pp. 397-480. (with Joe Zhu)
“Returns to Scale in Different DEA Models,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 154, (2004), pp. 345-362. (with Banker, R.D., W.W. Cooper, R.M. Thrall and Joe Zhu)
“Models for Performance Benchmarking: Measuring the Effect of e-business Activities on Banking Performance,” OMEGA, Vol. 32, Issue 4 (2004), pp. 313-322. (with W. Cook and Joe Zhu)
“DEA and its uses in different countries,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol 154, Issue 2, 16 April 2004, pp. 337-344. (with W. Cooper, E. Thanassoulis, and S. Zanakis)
“A Response to Comments on Modeling Undesirable Factors in Efficiency Evaluation,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 161, Issue 2, (2005), pp. 579-581. (with Joe Zhu)
“Notes on Sensitivity and Stability of the Classifications of Returns to Scale in Data Envelopment Analysis: A Comment,” Journal of Productivity Analysis, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2005, pp. 315-316. (with Joe Zhu)
“IFORS’ Operational Research Hall of Fame: Abraham Charnes,” International Transactions in Operational Research, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2006, pp. 273-277. (with Fred Phillips)
“Some Models and Measures for Evaluating Performances with DEA: Past Accomplishments and Future Prospects,” Journal of Productivity Analysis, Vol. 28, No. 3 (2007), pp. 151-163. (with W. Cooper. K. Tone, and Joe Zhu)
“Data envelopment analysis (DEA) – Thirty years on,” European Journal of Operational Re- search, Volume 192, Issue 1, (2009), pp. 1-17. (with Wade D. Cook)
“Data Envelopment Analysis: The Research Frontier,” Omega, The International Journal of Management Science, Vol. 41, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 1-2. (with Wade D. Cook and Joe Zhu)
“Foreward,” in Data Envelopment Analysis in the Financial Services Industry: A Guide for Practitioners and Analysts Working in Operations Research Using DEA, Joseph C. Paradi, H. David Sherman and Fai Keung Tam, editors, Springer, Switzerland, 2018.
Non-refereed Publications
“A Review of PC-MATLAB,” OR/MS Today, Vol. 12, No. 6, 1985.
“MathCAD: The Engineer’s Scratchpad,” OR/MS Today, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1987.
“Capturing and Representing Decision Processes in the Design of an Information System,” Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors Society, September, 1991. (with B. Coury and S. Motte)
“Benchmarking and Performance Improvement Tools for Manufacturing and Service Processes,” Proceedings of the 1995 NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, La Jolla, CA, January, 1995.
“Benchmarking and Performance Improvement Models for Manufacturing and Service Processes,” Proceedings of the 1996 NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, Alberquerque, NM, January, 1996.
“Benchmarking and Performance Improvement Models for Manufacturing and Service Processes,” Proceedings of the 1997 NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, Seattle, WA, January, 1997.
Technical Reports
“Foundations of Computer-Based Empirical Pareto-Optimal Efficiency Analysis,” Research Re- port CCS 459, Center for Cybernetic Studies, The University of Texas, Austin, TX. (with A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper, B. Golany, and J. Stutz)
“A Dimensionless Efficiency Measure for Departures from Pareto-Optimality,” Research Report CCS 480, Center for Cybernetic Studies, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas. (with A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper, B. Golany, and J. Stutz)
“Siting of Appropriated Fund Enlisted Dining Facilities: Problem/Model Description,” Technical Report, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. (with J. MacGregor Smith and Julie DelVecchio Smith)
“The Geometry of Mathematical Programming Models in Data Envelopment Analysis,” Technical Report 88-OR-091, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
“The Incorporation of Ordinal Relationships Among Multipliers in Data Envelopment Analysis,” Technical Report 89-OR-011, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Re- search, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
“A Bibliography of Data Envelopment Analysis (1978–1992) Version 6.0,” Technical Report, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
“Data Envelopment Analysis: A State-of-the-Art Survey,” Technical Report, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
“Data Envelopment Analysis Models: A Discussion,” Technical Report, Department of Indus- trial Engineering and Operations Research, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
Work in Progress
“A Geometric Interpretation of DEA Models: Returns to Scale and Other Implicit Assumptions,” Technical Report
“Resource Reallocation in Data Envelopment Analysis,” Technical Report
“Identifying Inefficient Organizational Levels Using a Multistage Data Envelopment Analysis,” Technical Report