Background: Recently, appointment registration systems (especially phone and web-based) that provide easier access to hospital medical services have become more common than traditional queuing registration systems. Therefore, ...

This paper explores the structural and operational dimensions of the efficiencies of airports. The two-stage procedure is suggested to assess the efficiencies of airports in this study. In the first-stage, Classification ...

Data envelopment analysis is a very effective mathematical instrument in assessing the performance of decision making units. In most real cases, the decision-maker need to identify a single most efficient unit. Several ...

Purpose This paper aims to consider each strategy of the particle swarm optimization (PSO) as a unit in data envelopment analysis (DEA) and uses the minimax mixed-integer linear programming DEA approach to find the most ...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a very effective management tool in assessing the performance of a set of decision making units (DMUs). In the efficiency evaluation using classic single stage DEA models, the internal ...

The Covid-19 pandemic spread rapidly around the world and required strict restriction plans and policies. In most countries around the world, the outbreak of the disease has been serious and has greatly affected the health ...