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Today’s DEA practitioners and researchers have a wide range of solution technology choices. Clearly, software is no longer an impediment to the incorporation of DEA into decision-support systems and benchmarking processes. This is evidenced by the availability of interoperable tools with a variety of user interfaces, advanced modeling options, and the power to evaluate large-scale data sets on inexpensive computing platforms. This survey describes and critiques prominent DEA software packages, both commercial and non-commercial, and summarizes the current state of the art.
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Barr, R.S. (2004). Dea Software Tools and Technology. In: Cooper, W.W., Seiford, L.M., Zhu, J. (eds) Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 71. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-7798-X_18
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