Hohenheim, University, Thesis (doctoral), 2001.

Thesis (Ph.D)--Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006. / McGinnis, Leon - Committee Chair, Griffin, Paul - Committee Member, Hackman, Steve - Committee Member, Parsons, Len - Committee Member, Sharp, Gunter - Committee Member. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

(no abstract available) / Series: Working Papers / Research Institute for Regulatory Economics

Performance measurement in higher education is examined during this study, in particular university performance indicators are reviewed and discussed. The conclusion is made that appropriate input and output indicators require some form of combination in order to allow practical consideration to be made. The technique of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is reviewed and found to have a number of conceptual drawbacks. The model is considerably developed within the thesis, primarily by the introduction of weight restrictions on the variables. Taken as a whole the developments, coined the DEAPMAS process, create a technique which can be used to assess cost effectiveness rather than simply efficiency. Data for two examples of subject areas, defined by recognised accounting units, are applied to the program as inter-university comparison was felt to be impractical at institutional level; due to differing subject mixes. A considerable computer implementation of the developed theory was written and utilised to provide results over a number of data runs for the examples. It was concluded that the results obtained represented a considerable improvement over separate consideration of numerous performance indicators.

Universiẗat, Diss.--Jena, 2008.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Northeastern University, 2008. / Title from title page (viewed June 25, 2009). Graduate School of Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-160).

Habilitation - Universiẗat, Freiburg (Breisgau), 2001.

Master-Arbeit Univ. St. Gallen, 2008.

Orientador: Orlando Fontes Lima Júnior / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T14:12:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carvalho_CarolinaCorreade_M.pdf: 3829740 bytes, checksum: fac7bcc71791eaf9213b18db3929f42a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: O uso de plataformas logísticas no mundo vem crescendo consideravelmente, mas no Brasil tal prática ainda é incipiente. Face às particularidades locais, os projetos têm que ser bem adaptados para a realidade brasileira, existindo poucos estudos que auxiliem nesta direção. O objetivo deste trabalho é propor uma metodologia para análise de benchmarking de plataformas logísticas e aplicá-la em um caso na Região Metropolitana de Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil. Como base para o estudo foi selecionado vinte e nove plataformas logísticas espalhadas pelo mundo e, por meio de Análise Envoltória de Dados (DEA), foram identificadas as que constituíram benchmarking Mundial para o projeto da plataforma logística de Campinas (PLC). Para esta analise foi adotado o modelo DEA-BCC (Variable Return to Scale- VRS) com os seguintes indicadores de desempenho; áreas das plataformas logísticas, capital investido, número de empresas atraídas e movimentação anual de carga. Após a avaliação inicial das vinte e nove plataformas pelo DEA foram identificadas sete como benchmarks mundiais e deste conjunto três foram apontadas como referências de melhores práticas para a PLC (Atlantic Gateway-Halifax Logistics Park, Canadá; Raritan Center, USA; e Rickenbacker Global Logistics Park USA). Ao mesmo tempo um estudo qualitativo, utilizando o método de estudo de caso múltiplo, identificou outras cinco plataformas européias como referencias para o projeto; a PLAZA (Espanha); Distrito de Nola (Itália); Rugis (França); Bremen GVZ (Alemanha) e Dallas Logistic Hub (Estados Unidos). A partir de uma analise detalhada das plataformas selecionadas foi possível identificar sugestões de melhoria e diretrizes de concepção para a plataforma brasileira. Esta aplicação demonstrou que a estratégia proposta tem grande aplicabilidade e apresenta bons resultados para avaliação de projetos de concepção de plataformas logísticas / Abstract: The use of logistic Platform in the world has grown considerably, but in Brazil, this practice is still incipient. Given local circumstances, projects need to be well adapted to Brazilian reality, there are few studies that help in this direction. The aim of this paper is to suggest guidelines for strategic planning of the new logistics platform to be installed in Campinas, São Paulo. As a starting point of the study were selected twenty-nine logistics platforms around the world and, through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) have been identified that constitute the global benchmarking and were taken as the base platform design logistics of Campinas (PLC). For this analysis we adopted the DEA-BCC model (Variable Return to Scale-VRS) with the following performance indicators, areas of logistics platforms, the capital invested, number of businesses attracted and annual cargo handling. After the initial assessment of the twenty-nine platforms by DEA were identified seven as global benchmarks and this set three references have been identified as best practices for the PLC (Atlantic Gateway-Halifax Logistics Park, Canada, Raritan Center, USA; Rickenbacker Global Logistics Park and USA). At the same time a qualitative study, using the method of multiple case study, identified five more platforms PLAZA (Span), Distrito de Nola (Italy), Rugis (France) Bremen GVZ (German) e Dallas logistic Hub (USA) that could be included as references for the enterprise. From a detailed analysis of selected platforms were able to identify suggestions for improvements and design guidelines for the Brazilian platform. This application demonstrated that the proposed strategy has wide applicability and gives good results for project evaluation design of logistics platforms / Mestrado / Transportes / Mestre em Engenharia Civil

With an increasing number of students enrolling at higher education institutions in South Africa, it has become important to investigate whether these institutions are using their resources adequately. This study uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate the efficiency of 23 South African tertiary education institutions based on both teaching and research outputs. Using DEA we are able to rank South African universities according to their use of resources in these two areas. These rankings can identify institutions which are performing well and also those which require improvement. The effect that merging institutions has on this efficiency is also determined. Owing to the limited sample size, variable reduction techniques, including the efficiency contribution measure (ECM) and principal components analysis (PCA-DEA), were used to improve the discrimination of the analysis.