Professor Ali Emrouznejad
Aston Business School
Professor, Business & Management
United Kingdom
My co-authors include
Dr. Gholam R. Amin
Dr Payam Hanafizadeh
Dr Amir Karbassi Yazdi
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My Publications
Fuzzy clustering of homogeneous decision making units with common weights in data envel...
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems
January 2021
An optimized queue management system to improve patient flow in the absence of appointm...
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance
November 2020
A combined machine learning algorithms and DEA method for measuring and predicting the ...
Journal of Management Science and Engineering
October 2020
The Impact of Smart Meter Installation on Attitude Change Towards Energy Consumption Be...
Journal of Global Information Management
October 2020
An Adjustable Fuzzy Chance-Constrained Network DEA Approach with Application to Ranking...
Expert Systems with Applications
September 2020
Fixed cost allocation based on the principle of efficiency invariance in two-stage systems
European Journal of Operational Research
June 2020
A new parallel fuzzy data envelopment analysis model for parallel systems with two comp...
Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making
April 2020
Global optimisation for a developed price discrimination model: A signomial geometric p...
Journal of the Operational Research Society
March 2020
COVID-19 Optimizer Algorithm, Modeling and Controlling of Coronavirus Distribution Process
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
January 2020
Measuring Spatio-temporal Efficiency: An R Implementation for Time-Evolving Units
Computational Economics
December 2019
Indices for the Betterment of the Public
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
December 2019
A bi-level multi-objective data envelopment analysis model for estimating profit and op...
RAIRO - Operations Research
October 2019
Optimising virtual networks over time by using Windows Multiplicative DEA model
Expert Systems with Applications
October 2019
A hybrid egalitarian bargaining game-DEA and sustainable network design approach for ev...
Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review
October 2019
Comprehensive performance evaluation of banking branches: A three-stage slacks-based me...
International Review of Economics & Finance
August 2019
Carbon emission abatement quota allocation in Chinese manufacturing industries: An inte...
Journal of the Operational Research Society
July 2019
Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis: An Adjustable Approach
Expert Systems with Applications
June 2019
Ranking intervals for two-stage production systems
Journal of the Operational Research Society
March 2019
Performance evaluation of thermal power plants considering CO2 emission: A multistage P...
Journal of Cleaner Production
March 2019
Determining the relative importance of sustainability evaluation criteria of urban tran...
Sustainable Cities and Society
March 2019
A binary particle swarm optimization algorithm for ship routing and scheduling of lique...
Transportation Letters
February 2019
Advances in data envelopment analysis: Celebrating the 40th anniversary of DEA and the ...
European Journal of Operational Research
February 2019
Big Data for the Greater Good
January 2019
A dynamic network DEA model for accounting and financial indicators: A case of efficien...
International Review of Economics & Finance
January 2019
Efficiency measurement of cloud service providers using network data envelopment analysis
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
January 2019
Modelling efficient and anti-efficient frontiers in DEA without explicit inputs
International Journal of Operational Research
January 2019
Finding the optimal combination of power plants alternatives: A multi response Taguchi-...
Journal of Cleaner Production
December 2018
The origins, development and future directions of Data Envelopment Analysis approach in...
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
December 2018
A novel inverse DEA model with application to allocate the CO2 emissions quota to diffe...
Journal of the Operational Research Society
October 2018
Sensitivity analysis of energy inputs in crop production using artificial neural networks
Journal of Cleaner Production
October 2018
Efficiency evaluation of parallel interdependent processes systems: an application to C...
International Journal of Production Research
September 2018
Editorial: Special issue on data envelopment analysis
Central European Journal of Operations Research
September 2018
A novel multilevel network slacks-based measure with an application in electric utility...
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy
September 2018
Big Data for the Greater Good: An Introduction
July 2018
An Integrated Fuzzy Clustering Cooperative Game Data Envelopment Analysis Model with ap...
Expert Systems with Applications
July 2018
Improving energy efficiency considering reduction of CO 2 emission of turnip production...
Journal of Cleaner Production
June 2018
Assessing the Relative Performance of Nurses Using Data Envelopment Analysis Matrix (DEAM)
Journal of Medical Systems
May 2018
Allocating the fixed cost: an approach based on data envelopment analysis and cooperati...
Annals of Operations Research
April 2018
A bargaining game model for performance assessment in network DEA considering sub-netwo...
Neural Computing and Applications
April 2018
Recent developments on the use of DEA in the public sector
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
March 2018
A survey and analysis of the first 40 years of scholarly literature in DEA: 1978–2016
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
March 2018
Chance-constrained cost efficiency in data envelopment analysis model with random input...
Operational Research
February 2018
Using Weighted Goal Programming Model for Planning Regional Sustainable Development to ...
Social Indicators Research
February 2018
Efficiency in BRICS banking under data vagueness: A two-stage fuzzy approach
Global Finance Journal
February 2018
An alternative approach to decompose the potential gains from mergers
Journal of the Operational Research Society
February 2018
A comparison between stochastic DEA and fuzzy DEA approaches: revisiting efficiency in ...
RAIRO - Operations Research
January 2018
Determining the optimal carbon tax rate based on data envelopment analysis
Journal of Cleaner Production
January 2018
Observing choice of loan methods in not-for-profit microfinance using data envelopment ...
Expert Systems with Applications
October 2017
Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process
September 2017
Estimation of potential gains from bank mergers: A novel two-stage cost efficiency DEA ...
Journal of the Operational Research Society
September 2017
Environmental performance evaluation of Chinese industrial systems: a network SBM approach
Journal of the Operational Research Society
June 2017
The state of the art development of AHP (1979–2017): a literature review with a social ...
International Journal of Production Research
June 2017
Modelling generalized firms’ restructuring using inverse DEA
Journal of Productivity Analysis
May 2017
Investigating the impact of behavioral factors on supply network efficiency: insights f...
Annals of Operations Research
March 2017
Minor and major consolidations in inverse DEA: Definition and determination
Computers & Industrial Engineering
January 2017
A framework for measuring global Malmquist–Luenberger productivity index with CO 2 emi...
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy
November 2016
Evaluating decision-making units under uncertainty using fuzzy multi-objective nonlinea...
INFOR Information Systems and Operational Research
October 2016
A novel ranking procedure for forecasting approaches using Data Envelopment Analysis
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
October 2016
Eco-efficiency considering the issue of heterogeneity among power plants
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy
September 2016
CO 2 emissions reduction of Chinese light manufacturing industries: A novel RAM-based ...
Energy Policy
September 2016
Carbon efficiency evaluation: An analytical framework using fuzzy DEA
European Journal of Operational Research
September 2016
A branch and efficiency algorithm for the optimal design of supply chain networks
Annals of Operations Research
August 2016
An allocation Malmquist index with an application in the China securities industry
Operational Research
June 2016
Performance measurement with multiple interrelated variables and threshold target level...
European Journal of Operational Research
April 2016
Assessing productive efficiency of banks using integrated Fuzzy-DEA and bootstrapping: ...
European Journal of Operational Research
February 2016
Eco-efficiency measurement and material balance principle: an application in power plan...
Annals of Operations Research
January 2016
Big Data Optimization: Recent Developments and Challenges
January 2016
Assessing the Queuing Process Using Data Envelopment Analysis: an Application in Health...
Journal of Medical Systems
November 2015
A fuzzy expected value approach under generalized data envelopment analysis
Knowledge-Based Systems
November 2015
The value of indirect ties in citation networks: SNA analysis with OWA operator weights
Information Sciences
September 2015
A new fuzzy additive model for determining the common set of weights in Data Envelopmen...
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems
August 2015
Hospital performance: Efficiency or quality? Can we have both with IT?
Expert Systems with Applications
July 2015
Social and financial efficiency of Islamic microfinance institutions: A Data Envelopmen...
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
June 2015
A new slacks-based measure of Malmquist–Luenberger index in the presence of undesirable...
Omega
March 2015
Evaluation efficiency of large-scale data set with negative data: an artificial neural ...
The Journal of Supercomputing
February 2015
A linear relational DEA model to evaluate two-stage processes with shared inputs
Computational and Applied Mathematics
January 2015
A bibliography of Ordered Weighted Averaging Operators
International Journal of Intelligent Systems
September 2014
A modified Semi-Oriented Radial Measure for target setting with negative data
Measurement
August 2014
Influential DMUs and outlier detection in data envelopment analysis with an application...
Annals of Operations Research
May 2014
Power industry restructuring and eco-efficiency changes: A new slacks-based model in Ma...
Energy Policy
May 2014
Interval data without sign restrictions in DEA
Applied Mathematical Modelling
April 2014
Data Envelopment Analysis in the public sector
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
March 2014
A bi-objective weighted model for improving the discrimination power in MCDEA
European Journal of Operational Research
March 2014
Advances in data envelopment analysis
Annals of Operations Research
January 2014
Managing Service Productivity
January 2014
Handbook of Research on Strategic Performance Management and Measurement Using Data Env...
January 2014
Performance Measurement with Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis
January 2014
Managing Service Productivity Using Data Envelopment Analysis
January 2014
Technical efficiency determinants within a dual banking system: a DEA-bootstrap approach
International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences
January 2014
Neural network DEA for measuring the efficiency of mutual funds
International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences
January 2014
Estimating the Efficiency of Healthcare Facilities Providing HIV/AIDS Treatment in Zamb...
January 2014
Classifying flexible measures in data envelopment analysis: A slack-based measure
Measurement
December 2013
A non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis approach for improving energy efficiency of ...
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy
December 2013
The State of the Art in Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis
November 2013
Applied Operational Research with SAS by Ali Emrouznejad, William Ho
International Statistical Review
November 2013
A stepwise fuzzy linear programming model with possibility and necessity relations
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems
January 2013
A new inverse DEA method for merging banks
IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
December 2012
Notes on “Classifying inputs and outputs in data envelopment analysis”
Applied Mathematics Letters
November 2012
General and multiplicative non-parametric corporate performance models with interval ra...
Applied Mathematical Modelling
November 2012
Productivity change using growth accounting and frontier-based approaches – Evidence fr...
European Journal of Operational Research
November 2012
Metasearch information fusion using linear programming
RAIRO - Operations Research
October 2012
Strategic logistics outsourcing: An integrated QFD and fuzzy AHP approach
Expert Systems with Applications
September 2012
A new DEA model for technology selection in the presence of ordinal data
The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
June 2012
Type-2 TOPSIS: A Group Decision Problem When Ideal Values are not Extreme Endpoints
Group Decision and Negotiation
May 2012
Optimal input/output reduction in production processes
Decision Support Systems
February 2012
Fuzzy data envelopment analysis: A discrete approach
Expert Systems with Applications
February 2012
An alternative formulation for the fuzzy assignment problem
Journal of the Operational Research Society
January 2012
Efficiency measurement in fuzzy additive data envelopment analysis
International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering
January 2012
An overview of Total Factor Productivity estimations adjusted for pollutant outputs: an...
International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management
January 2012
Productivity Growth and Efficiency Measurements in Fuzzy Environments with an Applicati...
International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications
January 2012
Applied Operational Research with SAS
December 2011
Some clarifications on the DEA clustering approach
European Journal of Operational Research
December 2011
An overall profit Malmquist productivity index with fuzzy and interval data
Mathematical and Computer Modelling
December 2011
A taxonomy and review of the fuzzy data envelopment analysis literature: Two decades in...
European Journal of Operational Research
November 2011
An integer-valued data envelopment analysis model with bounded outputs
International Transactions in Operational Research
September 2011
Optimizing search engines results using linear programming
Expert Systems with Applications
September 2011
Parametric aggregation in ordered weighted averaging
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
September 2011
Measuring productive efficiency using Nerlovian profit efficiency indicator and metafro...
Operational Research
August 2011
Input/output deterioration in production processes
Expert Systems with Applications
May 2011
Flexible measures in production process: A DEA-based approach
RAIRO - Operations Research
January 2011
A framework for performance evaluation of employment offices: a case of Tunisia
International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences
January 2011
COOPER-framework: A unified process for non-parametric projects
European Journal of Operational Research
December 2010
Performance Measurement in the Health sector: Uses of Frontier Efficiency Methodologies...
Journal of Medical Systems
November 2010
Ranking efficient decision-making units in data envelopment analysis using fuzzy concept
Computers & Industrial Engineering
November 2010
On the boundedness of the SORM DEA models with negative data
European Journal of Operational Research
October 2010
Guest editorial
International Journal of Energy Sector Management
September 2010
Data Envelopment Analysis Model for the Appraisal and Relative Performance Evaluation o...
Journal of Medical Systems
August 2010
Data envelopment analysis with classification and regression tree - a case of banking e...
Expert Systems
August 2010
Aggregating preference ranking with fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis
Knowledge-Based Systems
August 2010
Fuzzy assessment of performance of a decision making units using DEA: A non-radial appr...
Expert Systems with Applications
July 2010
Finding relevant search engines results: a minimax linear programming approach
Journal of the Operational Research Society
July 2010
An alternative measure of the ICT-Opportunity Index
Information & Management
May 2010
Improving minimax disparity model to determine the OWA operator weights
Information Sciences
April 2010
An aggregate measure of financial ratios using a multiplicative DEA model
International Journal of Financial Services Management
January 2010
Measurement of productivity index with dynamic DEA
International Journal of Operational Research
January 2010
Is ICT the Key to Development?
Journal of Global Information Management
January 2010
A semi-oriented radial measure for measuring the efficiency of decision making units wi...
European Journal of Operational Research
January 2010
Data envelopment analysis: theory and applications
Journal of the Operational Research Society
November 2009
Efficiency and productivity: theory and applications
Annals of Operations Research
October 2009
Impact of liberalization on efficiency and productivity of sugar industry in Kenya
Journal of Economic Studies
July 2009
Selecting the most preferable alternatives in a group decision making problem using DEA
Expert Systems with Applications
July 2009
SAS/OWA: ordered weighted averaging in SAS optimization
Soft Computing
April 2009
Multi-criteria logistics distribution network design using SAS/OR
Expert Systems with Applications
April 2009
A note on the modeling the efficiency of top Arab banks
Expert Systems with Applications
April 2009
A mathematical model for assembly line balancing model to consider disordering sequence...
Assembly Automation
February 2009
A combined neural network and DEA for measuring efficiency of large scale datasets
Computers & Industrial Engineering
February 2009
DEA models for ratio data: Convexity consideration
Applied Mathematical Modelling
January 2009
Document Similarity: A New Measure Using OWA
January 2009
Determining More Realistic OWA Weights
January 2009
Economic Efficiency of smallholder maize producers in Western Kenya: a DEA meta-frontie...
International Journal of Operational Research
January 2009
MP-OWA: The most preferred OWA operator
Knowledge-Based Systems
December 2008
Evaluation of research in efficiency and productivity: A survey and analysis of the fir...
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
September 2008
A Performance Assessment Method for Hospitals: The Case of Municipal Hospitals in Angola
Journal of Medical Systems
June 2008
A comparative assessment of performance and productivity of health centres in Seychelles
International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management
December 2007
Inverse forecasting: A new approach for predictive modeling
Computers & Industrial Engineering
October 2007
A note on DEA models in technology selection: an improvement of Karsak and Ahiska's app...
International Journal of Production Research
May 2007
Technical Efficiency, Efficiency Change, Technical Progress and Productivity Growth in ...
Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review
January 2007
Efficient Management of Health Centres Human Resources in Zambia
Journal of Medical Systems
November 2006
An extended minimax disparity to determine the OWA operator weights
Computers & Industrial Engineering
July 2006
Measurement efficiency and productivity in SAS/OR
Computers & Operations Research
July 2005
A mathematical model for dynamic efficiency using data envelopment analysis
Applied Mathematics and Computation
January 2005
Using Data Envelopment Analysis to Measure the Technical Efficiency of Public Health Ce...
Journal of Medical Systems
April 2004
An alternative DEA measure: a case of OECD countries
Applied Economics Letters
October 2003
January 2003
January 2002
Introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis and its Applications
Introduction to Performance Improvement Management Software (PIM-DEA)