
This book integrates two important fields of information technology, data mining and data envelopment analysis (DEA), to provide a new tool for measuring the performance of decision making units (DMU). Many investigations have dealt with the DEA models, but few have focused on heterogeneous DMUs, outlier detection, and scalability over large data sets. In this book, a comprehensive model is presented. A constraint based clustering method is introduced for early detection of outliers...