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The purpose of this paper is to develop an approach to a resource-allocation problem that typically appears in organizations with a centralized decision-making environment, for example, police stations, banks, and universities. The central unit is assumed to be interested in maximizing both the total efficiency and the efficiency of the individual unit by allocating available resources to them. Building upon this, we present a data envelopment analysis-based model for allocating input resources to DMUs (the decision-making units) under the framework of multiple objective programming. Numerical examples are used to illustrate the approach.
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This research was partly sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation Grant No. 70401014. The author wish to express his gratitude to two anonymous referees for their suggestions and comments.
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Fang, L., Zhang, CQ. Resource allocation based on the DEA model. J Oper Res Soc 59, 1136–1141 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602435
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