Hanif Heidari, Rohollah Ramezani, Ali Jamali
American Scientific Journal for Engineering, Technology and Sciences, Volume , No. 1
Publication year: 2016

Most traditional DEA models treat their reference technologies as black boxes. Moreover, they do not consider undesirable factors in the model. Lozano  present a DEA model that considers intermediate products. This paper extends Lozano  by assuming that there exist some undesirable outputs. A model is proposed to evaluate the performance of this type multistage systems. The proposed approach is applied to a number of case studies from the literature and compared with existing approaches.