RT Journal Article
T1 DEA production games with fuzzy output prices
A1 Hinojosa, Miguel
A1 Mármol, Amparo María
A1 Lozano, Sebastián
K1 DEA production games
K1 Fuzzy unit output prices
K1 Fuzzy revenue
K1 Fuzzy cooperative games
K1 Fuzzy allocation
AB In DEA production models the technology is assumed to be implicit in the input-output data given by a set of recorded observations. DEA production games assess the benefits to different firms of pooling their resources and sharing their technology. The crisp version of this type of problems has been studied in the literature and methods to obtain stable solutions have been proposed. However, no solution approach exists when there is uncertainty in the unit output prices, a situation that can clearly occur in practice. This paper extends DEA production games to the case of fuzzy unit output prices. In that scenario the total revenue is uncertain and therefore the corresponding allocation among the players is also necessarily uncertain. A corelike solution concept is introduced for these fuzzy games, the Preference Least Core. The computational burden of obtaining allocations of the fuzzy total profit reached through cooperation that belong to the preference least core is high. However, the results presented in the paper permit us to compute the fuzzy total revenue obtained by the grand coalition and a fuzzy allocation in the preference least core by solving a single linear programming model. The application of the proposed approach is illustrated with the analysis of two cooperative production situations originated by data sets from the literature.
PB Springer
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/19756
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/19756
LA en
NO Hinojosa, M.A., Lozano, S. & Mármol, A.M. DEA production games with fuzzy output prices. Fuzzy Optim Decis Making 17, 401–419 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10700-017-9278-8
NO This research was carried out with the financial support of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under project ECO2015-68856-P (MINECO/FEDER).
NO Departamento de Economía, Métodos Cuantitativos e Historia Económica
DS RIO
RD May 9, 2026