IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/isochp/978-3-319-31718-2_16.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Mixed Systems

In: Network Data Envelopment Analysis

Author

Listed:
  • Chiang Kao

    (National Cheng Kung University)

Abstract

Theoretically, network systems can have numerous structures. In practice, however, only a limited number of them exist, and most of them can be classified into one of those discussed in the preceding chapters, including series, parallel, hierarchical, assembly and disassembly, with only a few left unclassified. Since series, parallel, and hierarchical systems are special types of assembly and disassembly systems, the latter two are the most general ones. The unclassified systems are basically mixtures of the assembly and disassembly ones, which do not explicitly show the relationship between the system and division efficiencies from the viewpoint of efficiency decomposition, although the division efficiencies can always be aggregated, in desired forms, to represent the system efficiency. Once the relationship between the system and division efficiencies is explored, the divisions that have the greatest impact on the performance of the system can be identified. Improvements to these divisions will increase the efficiency of the system the most.

Suggested Citation

  • Chiang Kao, 2017. "Mixed Systems," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Network Data Envelopment Analysis, chapter 0, pages 387-408, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-319-31718-2_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-31718-2_16
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-319-31718-2_16. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.