In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

In many real managerial applications, an issue of considerable importance is allocating a
total fixed cost across a set of competing decision making units (DMUs). The fixed cost …

A prominent issue in many organizations involves the fair allocation of a total fixed cost
among a group of entities. This paper extends the traditional fixed cost allocation problem to …

In practice, the concept of incentives is extensively applied in the allocation process for
guiding the behaviours of an organization's units to satisfy the goals of the organization …

In the big data context, decision makers usually face the problem of evaluating
environmental efficiencies of a massive number of decision making units (DMUs) using the …

Fixed cost allocation among groups of entities is a prominent issue in numerous
organisations. Addressing this issue has become one of the most important topics of the …

In today's competitive business environment, service providers have a strong objective to
satisfy the customers with low cost to ensure a patronage/loyalty. Performance measurement …

In many real applications, there exist situations where some independent and decentralized
entities will construct a common platform for production processes. A natural and essential …

Exploring a commonly acceptable fixed cost allocation (FCA) scheme is a challenging yet
significant task, since one may contend with conflicting objectives. In this paper, we propose …

Allocating the fixed cost among a set of users in a fair way is an important issue both in
management and economic research. Recently, Du et al.(Eur J Oper Res 235 (1): 206–214 …