Data envelopment analysis of integer-valued inputs and outputs

Authors:
Sebastián Lozano;Gabriel Villa
Affiliations:
Department of Industrial Management, University of Seville, Spain and Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Sevilla, Spain;Department of Industrial Management, University of Seville, Spain
Venue:
Computers and Operations Research
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper addresses DEA scenarios whose inputs and outputs are naturally restricted to take integer values. Conventional DEA models would project the DMU onto targets that generally do not respect such type of integrality constraints. Although integer-valued inputs and outputs can be considered as a special case of ordinal inputs and outputs, the use of that type of models has many drawbacks. In this paper a MILP DEA model that guarantees the required integrality of the computed targets is proposed.