MONDAY (April 14^th, 2014)

Pre-Conference Day

09:00-18:00

Registration (IPPP)

09:00-10:30

Tutorial 1: (IPPP, Conference Room1)

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Tutorial 2: (IPPP, Conference Room1)

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Tutorial 3: (IPPP, Conference Room1)

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:30

Tutorial 4: (IPPP, Conference Room1)

18:00-20:00

Welcome Reception (IPPP, Exhibition Hall)

TUESDAY (April 15^th, 2014)

Full day Conference

08:30-17:00

Registration

09:00-10.15

Opening Ceremony (IPPP Auditorium)

10:15-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Parallel Session 1 (5 parallel – 4 papers in each session)

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Parallel Session 2 (6 parallel – 4 papers in each session)

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:30

Parallel Session 3 (6 parallel – 4 papers in each session)

20:00-22:30

Gala Dinner, William W. Cooper Award

WEDNESDAY (April 16^th, 2014)

Full day Conference

08:30-12:30

Registration

09:00-10:30

Parallel Session 4 (6 parallel – 4 papers in each session)

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-13:00

Keynotes Session (2 keynotes, each 45 minutes)

12:30-13:45

Lunch

13:45-19:00

City Tour

09:00-12:30

Poster Session

THURSDAY (April 17^th, 2014)

Full day Conference

09:00-10.30

Parallel Session 5 (6 parallel – 4 papers in each)

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Parallel Session 6 (6 parallel – 4 papers in each)

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Parallel Session 7 (6 parallel – 4 papers in each)

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:30

Panel Discussion-Closing Ceremony (Past-Present-Future DEA)

Tutorial SESSIONs-Monday April 14^th, 09:00-17:30

Time- Venue

Title--Speaker

9:00-10:30

IPPP Seminar Room1

Tutorial 1:

Standing out from the crowd: customizing your DEA model

Victor Podinovski: University of Warwick, UK

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:12:30

IPPP Seminar Room1

Tutorial 2:

Economic Foundation of DEA

Subhash Ray: University of Connecticut, USA

12:30-14:00

Lunch, only for those who has registered for tutorials.

14:00-15:30

IPPP Seminar Room1

Tutorial 3:

Efficiency Measurement and the Design of Engineering Systems

Kostas Triantis: Virginia Tech University, USA

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:30

IPs Computer Lab

Tutorial 4:

DEA applications and software demonstration,

(A free limited-version of PIM-DEA software will be available to those registered for this tutorial)

Ali Emrouznejad: Aston Business School, Aston University, UK

18:00-20:00
IPPP Exhibition Hall

Welcome Reception

IPPP Auditorium- 09:00-10:15

Opening Ceremony, Tuesday 15th April 2014

Arrival of participants and guests

Arrival of honorable guests

Opening performance – The Malaysian Drum Symphony

Introduction to Malaysia – Video presentation

Recitation of Doa’

Welcoming speeches

<![if !supportLists]>v<![endif]>Professor Rajah Rasiah, Dean of Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya

<![if !supportLists]>v<![endif]>Professor Rajiv Banker, Chair of International Data Envelopment Analysis Society

Opening speech and launching of DEA2014

<![if !supportLists]>v<![endif]>Dato’ Professor Mohd Amin Jalaludin, Vice Chancellor, University of Malaya

12^th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis: A short report

<![if !supportLists]>v<![endif]>Assoc. Prof. Dr. Susila Munisamy

IPPP Exhibition Hall- 10:15-11:00

Light refreshment

SESSION 1(Parallel)      Tuesday April 15^th       11:00-12:30

(1) IPPP Auditorium, Chairman: Valentin Zelenyuk

Theory and Modeling

P290

Title: Discrete and integer valued inputs and outputs in data envelopment analysis
Authors: Timo Kuosmanen, Abolfazl Keshvari and Reza Kazemi Matin
Speaker: Abolfazl Keshvari

P22

Title: Aggregation of Hicks-Moorsteen Productivity Indexes: Theory and DEA Application
Authors: Andreas Mayer and Valentin Zelenyuk
Speaker: Valentin Zelenyuk

P150

Title: Performance Improvement - time-stepped benchmarking based on Data Envelopment Analysis
Authors: Amarnath Bose and Gokulananda Patel
Speaker: Gokulananda Patel

P81

Title: A new link between MOLP and DEA models in the present of undesirable outputs in order to finding target units
Authors: Ali Ebrahimnejad and Madjid Tavana
Speaker: Ali Ebrahimnejad

(2) IPPP Seminar Room 1, Chairman: Abdel Latef Anouze

Banking and Finance

P123

Title: Model of Good Corporate Governance: A Study of Commercial Banks in ASEAN5
Authors: Zulkufly Ramly, Sok Gee Chan, Noor Sharoja Sapiei and Mohd Zulkhairi Mustapha
Speaker: Zulkufly Ramly

P233

Title: Estimating the Efficiency of Bank Kerjasama Rakyat Malaysia Berhad and Conventional Banks in Malaysia
Authors: Azmah Othman, Rosita Hamdan and Fatimah Kari
Speaker: Azmah Othman

P69

Title: The Impact of Corruption, Transparency & Financial Performance on Economic Development: An international Exploratory Study
Authors: Abdel Latef Anouze
Speaker: Abdel Latef Anouze

P78

Title: A New Framework of Banking Risk Management Efficiency Analysis: An integrated approach based on Hedge Accounting and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
Authors: Shahsuzan Zakaria
Speaker: Shahsuzan Zakaria

 (3) IPPP Seminar Room 2, Chairman: Ana Camanho

Agricultural

P315

Title: Measuring the Spatial Effect of Hypoxia on Harvesting Capacity - A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach
Authors: Lei Chen, Dong Liang and Zinnia Mukherjee
Speaker: Dong Liang

P97

Title: Exploring seasonality effects on the performance of artisanal fisheries
Authors: Ana Camanho, Manuela Oliveira and Miguel Gaspar
Speaker: Ana Camanho

P228

Title: A three-stage analytical framework for the evaluation of farming efficiency
Authors: Amar Oukil and Slim Zekri
Speaker: Amar Oukil

P59

Title: Benchmarking Energy Efficient Agricultural Farms in Pakistan: The DEA Sub-vector Approach
Authors: Amin Mugera and Arif Watto
Speaker: Arif Watto

SESSION 1 (Parallel)       Tuesday April 15^th                    11:00-12:30

(4) IPPP Video Conference Room, Chairman: Emmanuel Thanassoulis

Education and Public Sector

P147

Title: Evaluating Efficiency and Productivity of Academic Departments
Authors: Nur Azlina Abd Aziz
Speaker: Nur Azlina Abd Aziz

P25

Title: Competitiveness Among Higher Education Institutions: A Two-Stage Cobb-Douglas Model for Efficiency Measurement of Schools of Business
Authors: Sonia Avilés-Sacoto, Wade Cook and David Güemes-Castorena
Speaker: Sonia Valeria Aviles-Sacoto

P332

Title: Malaysia From PSPTN Perspective Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Authors: Wan Rohaida Wan Husain
Speaker: Wan Rohaida Wan Husain

P67

Title: Assessing productivity performance of basic and secondary education in Tunisia: a Malmquist analysis
Authors: Ramzi Sourour, Antonio Afonso and Mohamed Ayadi
Speaker: Sourour Ramzi

(5) IPS Auditorium, Chairman: Sun Shinn

Tourism

P125

Title: Measuring the performance of Independent-owned International Tourist Hotels in Taiwan
Authors: Ting Yu Zhou, Shinn Sun and Ting Zi Chueh
Speaker: Ting Yu Zhou

P162

Title: Tourism performance of French regions
Authors: Agathe Stenger
Speaker: Agathe Stenger

P55

Title: Linking Technical Efficiency with Guest Satisfaction: Evidence from Resort-Hotels in Boracay, Philippines
Authors: Mark Tapar and Fernando Trinidad
Speaker: Mark Tapar

SESSION 2 (Parallel)      Tuesday April 15^th            14:00-15:30

(6) IPPP Auditorium, Chairman: Susila Munisamy

Theory and Modeling

P230

Title: Improving efficiency of efficient and inefficient DMU
Authors: Valter Boljunčić
Speaker: Valter Boljuncic

P246

Title: How to Select an Epsilon to Apply Kourosh and Arash Model in Data Envelopment Analysis
Authors: Dariush Khezrimotlagh
Speaker: Dariush Khezrimotlagh

P259

Title: A non-radial data envelopment analysis model for weight generation in the analytic hierarchy process
Authors: Ehsan Momeni and Fatemeh Abbasi
Speaker: Ehsan Momeni

P77

Title: DEA model without explicit inputs with majority preference
Authors: Guoliang Yang
Speaker: Guo-liang Yang

(7) IPPP Seminar Room 1, Chairman: Wenbin Liu

Network and dynamic DEA

P115

Title: Multi-perspective dynamic network performance measurement for evacuation planning: A dynamic network-DEA approach
Authors: Oscar Herrera Restrepo and Kostas Triantis
Speaker: Konstantinos Triantis

P189

Title: Stochastic Network DEA Model with Chance Constrained Programming
Authors: Song Han and Bo Wang
Speaker: Song Han

P229

Title: Undesirable input-ouputs in two stage DEA models
Authors: Wenbin Liu, Gl Yang and Bz Zhou
Speaker: Wenbin Liu

P24

Title: An Application of Window Analysis of Data Envelopment Analysis
Authors: Dubravko Hunjet, Luka Neralic and Richard E. Wendell
Speaker: Luka Neralic

(8) IPPP Seminar Room 2, Chairman: Subhash Ray

Banking and Finance

P148

Title: Evaluating Performance of Taiwanese Banks with Considering Risk-based Capital Requirements: An Application of Tow-Stage DEA Modes
Authors: Ming-Kuang Shyu, Jen-Hui Lee, Tsu-Tan Fu and Jia-Ching Juo
Speaker: Ming-Kuang Shyu

P197

Title: The Impact of Regulations and Supervision on Banks’ Performances in Turkey and Russia
Authors: Ozlem Olgu and Deniz Akun
Speaker: Ozlem Olgu Akdeniz

P48

Title: A Novel Application of Data Envelopment Analysis for Efficiency Evaluation Of Banking Sector Firms in Pakistan
Authors: Shamaila Ishaq
Speaker: Shamaila Ishaq

P8

Title: Claims effect and profit change on the Mexican Insurance Industry
Authors: Ana Maria Reyna Bernal and Hugo Javier Fuentes Castro
Speaker: Ana Maria Reyna Bernal

SESSION 2 (Parallel)        Tuesday April 15^th                         14:00-15:30

(9) IPPP Video Conference Room, Chairman: Ihsan Alp

Energy, Water, Electricity

P249

Title: Energy Dependency performance of Turkey and European Union member states
Authors: İhsan Alp and Adnan Sözen
Speaker: Ihsan Alp

P262

Title: Exploring and analysing sources of technical efficiency in water system: Some evidence from Southeast Asian water utilities
Authors: Kok Fong See
Speaker: Kok Fong See

P267

Title: Cost Competitiveness and Energy Savings in U.S. Manufacturing: Some Alternative Scenarios
Authors: Lei Chen, Kankana Mukherjee and Subhash C. Ray
Speaker: Lei Chen

P38

Title: Environmental and Cost Allocative Efficiency Analysis in Steam Electricity Generation: a case study of Iran
Authors: Foroogh Shadman and Khalid Abdul Rahim
Speaker: Foroogh Shadman

(10) IPS Auditorium, Chairman: Mad Ithnin Salleh

Education and Public Sector

P144

Title: Evaluating Performance by Two-Stage DEA Model of Leader-Follower: An Application of Taiwanese Semiconductor Industry
Authors: Ching-Cheng Lu, Jen-Hui Lee, Ming-Kuang Shyu, Yung-Ho Chiu and Hui-Jung Lu
Speaker: Ching Cheng Lu

P30

Title: Assessing the efficiency of public high schools in Qassim district
Authors: Ali Alshayea
Speaker: Ali Alshayea

P310

Title: A Two-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Approach: Efficiency Measurement in Higher Education Institutions:
Authors: Zalina Zahid
Speaker: Zalina Zahid

P57

Title: Productivity Change in the Malaysian Public Higher Education Sector
Authors: Mad Ithnin Salleh
Speaker: Mad Ithnin Salleh

(11) IPS Seminar Room A, Chairman: Mohsen Afsharian

Agriculture

P136

Title: A Two-Stage Double Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Rice Farms in Ghana
Authors: Rebecca Owusu, Atakelty Hailu and Michael Burton
Speaker: Rebecca Owusu

P143

Title: Testing The Best Design For Female Calf Growth With DEA
Authors: Ayhan Gölcükcü, Hikmet Orhan, Hasan Bal and Said Bİlgİnturan
Speaker: Ayhan Golcukcu

P177

Title: Malmquist Index Productivity Analysis of Fruit and Vegetable Farms in Hawaii
Authors: Dilini Hemachandra, Shawn Arita and PingSun Leung
Speaker: Dilini Hemachandra

P58

Title: Benchmarking the Performance of Farms using the Expected Minimum Input Functions: A Robust Frontier Approach
Authors: Amin Mugera
Speaker: Amin Mugera

SESSION 3 (Parallel)       Tuesday April 15^th                      16:00-17:30

(12) IPPP Auditorium, Chairman: Ali Emrouznejad

Theory and Modeling

P151

Title: Introducing Ideal and Anti-Ideal Decision Making Units in Free Disposal Full
Authors: Sun Shinn
Speaker: Sun Shinn

P161

Title: Generalisations for Elasticity Measures on DEA Frontiers
Authors: Kazim Baris Atici and Victor V. Podinovski
Speaker: Kazim Baris Atici

P79

Title: The Directional Distance Function as a Minimax Solution of a Multi-Objective Optimization Problem
Authors: Subhash Ray
Speaker: Subhash Ray

P88

Title: Measurement of returns to scale in the radial and non-radial DEA models
Authors: Vladimir E. Krivonozhko, Finn R. Førsund and Andrey V. Lychev
Speaker: Vladimir E. Krivonozhko

(13) IPPP Seminar Room 1, Chairman: Necmi Avkiran

Network and dynamic DEA

P119

Title: A Dynamic Network Dea Model with an Application to Mexican Commercial Banks after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis.
Authors: Francisco Vargas, Geneviève Marchini, Luis Renteria, Gang Cheng and Panagiotis Zervopoulos
Speaker: Francisco Vargas Serrano

P130

Title: Modeling Bank Production with Dynamic-Network Data Envelopment Analysis
Authors: Hirofumi Fukuyama and William Weber
Speaker: Hirofumi Fukuyama

P237

Title: An illustration of dynamic network DEA in Chinese commercial banking: Foreign vs. domestic banks
Authors: Necmi Avkiran
Speaker: Necmi Avkiran

P244

Title: An additive two-stage DEA model with fixed weights
Authors: Sheng Ang and Chien-Ming Chen
Speaker: Sheng Ang

(14) IPPP Seminar Room 2, Chairman: Sunil Kumar

Banking and Finance

P117

Title: FDI and Efficiency convergence in Vietnamese Manufacturing industry
Authors: Minh Nguyen Khac, Hung Nguyen Viet, Khanh Pham Van and Hoa Ha Quynh
Speaker: Hung Nguyen Viet

P139

Title: Metafrontier Cost Malmquist Productivity Index: an Application of Asia Pacific banks
Authors: Tsu-Tan Fu, Mei-Ying Huang and Jia-Chia Juo
Speaker: Mei-ying Huang

P172

Title: Technical Efficiency and Technology Gaps in Indian Banking Industry: A DEA-bootstrapping Metafrontier Analysis
Authors: Sunil Kumar
Speaker: Sunil Kumar

P204

Title: The Financial Crisis and Islamic Banking Performance: A DEA of Islamic Banks’ Resistance of Crisis
Authors: Abul Hassan and Ali Emrouznejad
Speaker: Abul Hassan

SESSION 3 (Parallel)       Tuesday April 15^th                  16:00-17:30

(15) IPPP Video Conference Room, Chairman: Shiyi Chen

Energy, Water, Electricity

P110

Title: The Performance of locations by Specifying Certain Range on the Uncontrollable Variables by Using Arash Method
Authors: Amin Mirzapour, Dariush Khezrimotlagh and Adnan Sozen
Speaker: Amin Mirzapour

P252

Title: Environmental TFP Growth and its Role in China’s Regional Green Economic Development
Authors: Shiyi Chen
Speaker: Shiyi Chen

P26

Title: Environmental Performance of ASEAN Countries
Authors: Rossazana Ab. Rahim and Dyg Affizah Awg Marikan
Speaker: Rossazana Ab Rahim

P327

Title: Investigating the Effects of Restructuring on Iranian Power Generation Industry Eco-Efficiency: Handling the Heterogeneity among Power Plants
Authors: Behrouz Arabi, Susila Munisamy and Mohammad Sadegh Ghazizadeh
Speaker: Behrouz Arabi

(16) IPS Auditorium, Chairman: Giannis Karagiannis

Education and Public Sector

P157

Title: Towards a Composite Public Sector Performance Indicator
Authors: Giannis Karagiannis and Suzanna M. Paleologou
Speaker: Giannis Karagiannis

P19

Title: Data Envelopment Analysis and the Quality Frontier for Public Services
Authors: David Mayston
Speaker: David Mayston

P42

Title: Service Complexity a determinant of service productivity
Authors: Moira Scerri and Renu Agarwal
Speaker: Moira Scerri

P86

Title: The quality and efficiency of public service delivery in the UK and China
Authors: Minyan Zhu and Antonio Peyrache
Speaker: Antonio Peyrache

(17) IPS Seminar Room A, Chairman: Gazi Md Nurul Islam

Agriculture

P165

Title: The Relationship Between Technical Efficiency And Output price Variability Of Rice And Wheat Production: Evidence From Data Envelopment Analysis Using Indian Data
Authors: Dipyaman Pal and Arpita Ghose
Speaker: Dipyaman Pal

P232

Title: Application of DEA in impact Analysis of Agricultural Interventions
Authors: Jacinta Kanini Lemba
Speaker: Jacinta Kanini Lemba

P308

Title: Estimates of Technical Efficiency for Fish Cage Culture in Peninsular Malaysia
Authors: Gazi Md Nurul Islam, Tai Yew and Kusairi Noh
Speaker: Gazi Md Nurul Islam

P90

Title: Estimation of Fertilizer Use Efficiency using Slack Based DEA: Implications for Subsidizing Fertilizer for Rice Farms in Sri Lanka
Authors: Manoj Rajakaruna Mudalige
Speaker: Manoj Rajakaruna Mudalige

SESSION 4 (Parallel)       Wednesday April 16^th       9:00-10:30

(18) IPPP Auditorium, Chairman: Joshua Ignatius

Theory and Modeling

P255

Title: An algorithm to study influence of the input variables on the efficiency in Data Envelopment Analysis
Authors: Majid Zerafat Angiz Langroudi, Seyed Mahmoud Davoodi and Sahubar Ali Mohammad Nadhar Khan
Speaker: Sahubar Ali Mohamed Nadhar Khan

P302

Title: Input Retention and Information Preservation on an Efficient Frontier
Authors: Joshua Ignatius and Mohammad Reza Ghasemi
Speaker: Joshua Ignatius

P46

Title: Resource allocation in the presence of undesirable outputs: a DEA approach
Authors: Ming-Miin Yu, Li-Hsueh Chen and Bo Hsiao
Speaker: Ming-Miin Yu

P83

Title: Improving DEA efficiency under constant sum of inputs/outputs and common weights
Authors: Sanjeet Singh and Surya Sarathi Majumdar
Speaker: Sanjeet Singh

(19) IPPP Seminar Room 1, Chairman: Tsu-Tan Fu

Fuzzy DEA

P140

Title: Evaluating Performance of Colleges of Business of Universities in Taiwan using a Hybrid Fuzzy AHP-DEA Model
Authors: Tsu-Tan Fu
Speaker: Tsu-Tan Fu

P236

Title: Using Data Envelopment Analysis to defuzzify a group of dependent fuzzy numbers
Authors: Majid Zerafat Angiz Langroudi, Maznah Mat Kasim and Jehan S.Saleh
Speaker: Jehan Saleh Ahmed

P271

Title: Supplier selection under fuzzy environment: A hybrid model using KAM in DEA
Authors: Alireza Fallahpour, Ezutahudoncy Olugu, Sitinurmaya Musa, Dariush Khezrimotlagh and Sujit Singh
Speaker: Alireza Fallahpour

P89

Title: Modified Centralized resource allocation model with variable return to scale for fuzzy data

Authors: Mozhgan Mansouri Kaleibar, Ali Ashrafi and Sahand Daneshvar
Speaker: Mozhgan Mansouri Kaleibar

(20) IPPP Seminar Room 2, Chairman: Heinz Ahn

Banking and Finance

P199

Title: The efficiency of Waqf collection and distribution of Malaysia State of Islamic Religion Councils (SIRCs): A two-stage analysis
Authors: Hazriah Hasan and Ismail Ahmad
Speaker: Hazriah Hasan

P264

Title: DEA Efficiency and Forecasting Productivity Change with Brownian Motion for Central Bank of Malaysia
Authors: Md. Azizul Baten, Maznah Mat Kasim and Razamin Ramli
Speaker: Md. Azizul Baten Baten

P34

Title: Integrating decision criteria into DEA assessment of bank performance: An efficiency analysis of German savings banks from 2006 to 2011 using a generalised DEA model
Authors: Heinz Ahn and Minh Hanh Le
Speaker: Minh Hanh Le

P62

Title: Banks’ outward foreign direct investments and their efficiencies
Authors: Shu-Chin Huang and Susila Munisamy
Speaker: Shu-Chin Huang

SESSION 4 (Parallel)       Wednesday April 16^th      9:00-10:30

(21) IPPP Video Conference Room, Chairman: Hirofumi Fukuyama

Agriculture

P12

Title: Technical efficiency and potential productivity gains of cereal farms in Iran
Authors: Mohammad Ali Nasseri Jahromi, Erfaneh Rasekh Jahromi, Jalil Kodaparast, Athar Rasekh Jahrom and Reza Nasseri Jahromi
Speaker: Mohammad Ali Nasseri Jahromi

P137

Title: Impact of public subsidies on farm technical efficiency: a Bayesian meta-analysis
Authors: Jean Joseph Minviel and Laure Latruffe
Speaker: Laure Latruffe

P243

Title: Technical efficiency of smallholder crop production in Ghana
Authors: Luke Abatania, Atakelty Hailu and Amin Mugera
Speaker: Luke Nsugnana-ang Abatania

P60

Title: New insights on recognizing strong and weak congestion slack based in DEA
Authors: Mohammad Khoveyni and Robabeh Eslami
Speaker: Mohammad Khoveyni

 (22) IPS Auditorium, Chairman: Dariush Khezrimotlagh

Health care / Education

P171

Title: Interstate variation of Efficiency of Elementary Education in India: a Meta Frontier and Group Frontier Analysis
Authors: Arpita Ghose
Speaker: Arpita Ghose

P109

Title: The impact of financial liberalization on the financial performance of industrial companies listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange
Authors: Ahmad Battal, Hanaa Mahmeed and Wisam Ali
Speaker: Ahmad Battal

P40

Title: Efficiency Assessment of Secondary Level Public Hospitals of Uttarakhand (India)
Authors: Sandeep Kumar Mogha, Shiv Prasad Yadav and S P Singh
Speaker: Sandeep Kumar Mogha

P56

Title: Performance Measurement of Pharmaceutical Firms in Bangladeshi Capital Markets: Non-Parametric Approach
Authors: Md. Abul Kalam Azad and Dr. Susila Munisamy
Speaker: Md. Abul Kalam Azad

(23) IPS Seminar Room A, Chairman: Lu Ming-Xiang

Energy, Water, Electricity

P135

Title: Second stage adjustment for firm heterogeneity in DEA
Authors: Roar Amundsveen, Ole-Petter Kordahl and Tore Langset
Speaker: Ole-Petter Kordahl

P206

Title: Privatisation and Productivity in the Malaysian Water Industry: A Malmquist Index Approach
Authors: Mani Yogeswari and Susila Munisamy
Speaker: Mani Yogeswari

P258

Title: Research on Industrial Structure Efficiency of Energy Based on DEA
Authors: Lu Ming-Xiang, Jing-Ji Zheng and Dai-Yin Xie
Speaker: Lu Ming-Xiang

P289

Title: Slacks-Based Measure of Efficiency in Malaysian Freshwater Aquaculture Data Envelopment Analysis Approach
Authors: Abdullahi Iliyasu, Zainal Abidin Mohamed, Mansor Mohamed Ismail and Abdullah Amin Mahir
Speaker: Abdullahi Iliyasu

Wednesday April 16^th

(24) IPPP Exhibition Hall

Poster Session -9:00-1230

P64

Title: Assessing Technical Efficiency of Rice Production in Selected Granary’s in Malaysia: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
Authors: Engku Elini Engku Ariff, Stephen Ramsden and Neil Crout
Presenter: Engku Elini Engku Ariff

P231

Title: Estimating Cost Efficiency (CE) and Allocative Efficiency (AE) of the Flour Mills of the Grain Silos and Flour Mills Organisation (GSFMO) in Saudi Arabia
Authors: Jaber Alyami, Stephen Ramsden and Paul Wilson
Presenter: Jaber Alyami

P329

Title: Analysis of Energy-Economy-Environment Total Factor Productivity Based on Intersectoral Linkage: An Application of Dynamic Network Malmquist Index
Authors: Ming Lei, Xiaowen Yu, Honghui Deng and Xinan Zhao
Presenter: Xiaowen Yu

P205

Title: Measuring Productivity and Efficiency of Seaports in India via Data Envelopment Analysis
Authors: Jeronimo G. R. Monteiro
Presenter: Jeronimo G. R. Monteiro

(25) IPPP Auditorium

Keynote Session

11:00-11:45

Title: Assessing research productivity of academics at faculty and group level and its decomposition into technical and allocative components.

Chair: Necmi Avkiran

Speaker: Emmanuel Thanassoulis

11:45-12:30

Title: Bill Cooper and Development of DEA

Chair: Luka Neralic

Speaker: Rajiv Banker

SESSION 5 (Parallel)       Thursday April 17^th       9:00-10:30

(26) IPPP Auditorium, Chairman: Victor Podinovski

Theory and Modeling

279

Title: Classification of Decision Making Units into a number of optional levels
Authors: Yasser Jafari
Speaker: Yasser Jafari

49

Title: Weight restrictions and infeasible DEA models
Authors: Victor Podinovski
Speaker: Victor Podinovski

P85

Title: DEA by sequential exclusion of alternatives
Authors: Vsevolod Petruschenko and Fuad Aleskerov
Speaker: Vsevolod Petrushchenko

P94

Title: The Comparison of CCRCOR Model with Some Other Models
Authors: Emine Demet Mecit and İhsan Alp
Speaker: Emine Demet Mecit

(27) IPPP Seminar Room 1, Chairman: Sebastián Lozano

Network and dynamic DEA

P23

Title: Efficiency Assessment of Banking Sector in Yemen using Data Envelopment Window Analysis (DEWA)
Authors: Fekri Ali Shawtari, Mohamed Ariff Abdul Kareem and Shaikh Hamzah Abdul Razak
Speaker: Fekri Ali Shawtari

PP253

Title: Improving Discrimination Power DEA through Two-Stage Multi-objective DEA: Malaysian Banks as an Illustration.
Authors: Hocine Hanafi and Moussa Larbani
Speaker: Moussa Larbani

P50

Title: Asian Banking Performance: A Meta-frontier Approach
Authors: Shazida Jan Mohd Khan, Shamzaeffa Samsudin and Raj Yadaf
Speaker: Shazida Jan Mohd Khan

P9

Title: Applications of Network DEA to transportation
Authors: Sebastián Lozano
Speaker: Sebastian Lozano

(28) IPPP Seminar Room 2, Chairman: Nurhan Davutyan

Banking and Finance

P142

Title: Managerial Efficiency in a Centralized Framework - A DEA Controlling Approach with an Empirical Illustration to German Saving Banks
Authors: Mohsen Afsharian and Heinz Ahn
Speaker: Mohsen Afsharian

P226

Title: Efficiency and Productivity Analysis of Microfinance Institutions in Indonesia: A DEA Approach
Authors: Izah M Tahir and Siti Nurzahira Che Tahrim
Speaker: Siti Nurzahira Che Tahrim

P322

Title: Evaluating Performance of Mutual Funds using Data Envelopment Analysis
Authors: Dhimant Ganatra and Dinesh Kumar U
Speaker: Dhimant Ganatra

P72

Title: Efficiency and Competitiveness in Turkish Banking
Authors: Nurhan Davutyan and Canan Yildirim
Speaker: Nurhan Davutyan

SESSION 5 (Parallel)       Thursday April 17^th      9:00-10:30

(29) IPPP Video Conference Room, Chairman: Razamin Ramli

Energy, Water, Electricity

P181

Title: Assessing the Performance of Brazilian State owned water utilities
Authors: Maria Isabel Pedro, Pedro Carvalho and Rui Marques
Speaker: Maria Isabel Pedro

P293

Title: Assessing Efficiency and Effectiveness of Malaysian Water Services: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach
Authors: Norbaizura Kamarudin and Wan Rosmanira Ismail
Speaker: Norbaizura Kamarudin

P51

Title: Measurement of Dynamic Efficiency in the English and Welsh Water and Sewerage Industry
Authors: Charlotte Pointon and Kent Matthews
Speaker: Charlotte Pointon

P96

Title: Sources of Chinese Economic Growth under Restrictions of Resource and Environment—An Empirical Analysis Based on a New Biennial Malmquist Index with Green Growth Accounting

Authors: Minzhe Du and Bing Wang

Speaker: Minzhe Du

(30) IPS Auditorium, Chairman: Maria Portela

Hospital and Health care

P164

Title: Cost Efficiency of Regional Public Hospitals in South Korea
Authors: Sang-Mok Kang, Moon-Hwee Kim and Jiyoung Kong
Speaker: Jiyoung Kong

P167

Title: Input Oriented Technical Efficiency And Input Slack Of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: Evidence From Non Parametric Data Envelopment Analysis
Authors: Chandrima Chakraborty and Arpita Ghose
Speaker: Chandrima Chakraborty

P250

Title: Benchmarking Portuguese Hospitals through a web based Platform (HOBE)
Authors: Maria Portela, Ana Camanho, Sofia Silva, Diogo Almeida, Ricardo Castro and Luiz Lopes
Speaker: Maria Portela

P53

Title: Total Factor Productivity Growth of Indian Drug and Pharmaceutical Industry
Authors: Varun Mahajan, D.K. Nauriyal and S.P. Singh
Speaker: Varun Mahajan

(31) IPS Seminar Room A, Chairman: Francisco Daladier Marques Junior

Agriculture

P15

Title: Application of the Robust Frontiers for Measurement of the Efficiency of Lithuanian Family Farms
Authors: Tomas Balezentis
Speaker: Tomas Balezentis

P251

Title: Performance evaluation of agricultural municipalities in Paraíba State from Brazil with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the models with SBM and SBM with super efficiency.
Authors: Francisco Daladier Marques Júnior, Walisson Pereira Ferreira, Antônio Clécio Fontelles Thomaz and Ana Lúcia Miranda Lopes
Speaker: Francisco Daladier Marques Junior

316

Title: Agricultural Productivity Growth and Incidence af Poverty: An Experience from Africa
Authors: Olajide Ajao, Ogunniyi Laudia and Oyedele Adekunle
Speaker: Olajide Abraham Ajao

P71

Title: Technical efficiency and technology adoption: a study of organic farming in the French dairy sector
Authors: Laure Latruffe, Celine Nauges and Yann Desjeux
Speaker: Yann Desjeux

SESSION 6 (Parallel)        Thursday April 17^th       11:00-12:30

(32) IPPP Auditorium, Chairman: Vladimir E. Krivonozhko

Theory and Modeling

P113

Title: A new approach to measuring congestion in DEA with common weights
Authors: Abbasali Noura, Alireza Hajihosseini and Elnaz Hosseini
Speaker: Alireza Hajihosseini

P195

Title: A Neutral DEA model in Cellular Manufacturing Systems with Assignment Worker
Authors: Reza Kia, Nikbakhsh Javadian and Babooshka Shavazipour
Speaker: Reza Kia

P280

Title: Tropical Production Technologies
Authors: Walter Briec
Speaker: Walter Briec

P87

Title: On comparison of different sets of units used for improving the frontier in the DEA models
Authors: Vladimir E. Krivonozhko, Finn R. Førsund and Andrey V. Lychev
Speaker: Vladimir E. Krivonozhko

(33) IPPP Seminar Room 1, Chairman: Hassan Bal

Theory and Applications

P116

Title: Benchmarking superannuation funds based on relative performance
Authors: Don U.A. Galagedera and John Watson
Speaker: John Watson

P191

Title: Hyperbolic Archimedean copulas in the stochastic frontier models
Authors: Vadoud Najjari and Hasan Bal
Speaker: Hasan Bal

P20

Title: Can education targets be met without increasing public spending? Evidence from Brazilian municipalities
Authors: Fabiana Rocha, Janete Duarte, Luis Felipe Pereira, Plinio Oliveira and Sergio Gadelha
Speaker: Plinio Oliveira

P330

Title: Productivity growth in Malaysian manufacturing sector: A two stage analyses of the Malmquist Luenberger productivity index
Authors: Susila Munisamy and Noor Asiah Ramli
Speaker: Susila Munisamy

(34) IPPP Seminar Room 2, Chairman: Francisco Vargas

Banking and Finance

P126

Title: Performance measurement of the banks in Malaysia in the presence of non-performing loan
Authors: Noor Asiah Ramli and Susila Munisamy
Speaker: Noor Asiah Ramli

P14

Title: Technical Efficiency Measurement under Different Risk Preferences: An Empirical Analysis for Chinese Commercial Banks
Authors: Ning Zhu, Bing Wang and Zhiqian Yu
Speaker: Ning Zhu

P328

Title: Lending a Right Hand: Application of DEA Meta-frontier Analysis in Observing Impact of Loan Disbursement Method to Microfinance Efficiency
Authors: Indra Widiarto and Ali Emrouznejad
Speaker: Indra Widiarto

P47

Title: Analyzing Performance of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) Based on Production Trade-offs Approach in DEA
Authors: Sadia Farooq
Speaker: Sadia Farooq

SESSION 6 (Parallel)       Thursday 17th April      11:00-12:30

(35) IPPP Video Conference Room, Chairman: Cesar L. Navarro-Chávez

Transportation

P127

Title: Economic Efficiency in Mexico Port Terminals , 2000-2010: An Analysis through Data Envelopment
Authors: Cesar L. Navarro-Chávez and Odette Delfin
Speaker: Cesar L. Navarro-Chávez

P145

Title: Measuring Efficiency of Different Airline Business Models Using DEA Metafrontier Framework
Authors: Muhammad Asraf Abdullah, Susila Munisamy and Nurulhuda Mohd Satar
Speaker: Muhammad Asraf Abdullah

P247

Title: Estimating the Performance Evaluation of International Airports of Iran Using KAM in Data Envelopment Analysis
Authors: Parviz Mohsenpour, Zahra Mohsenpour and Dariush Khezrimotlagh
Speaker: Parviz Mohsenpour

P266

Title: Exploring property value effects of ferry terminals in Brisbane, Australia: a comparison of DEA and Statistical Regression Analysis
Authors: Barbara T.H. Yen, Chi-Hong Tsai, Corinne Mulley and Matthew Burke
Speaker: Barbara T.H. Yen

(36) IPS Auditorium, Chairman: Konstantinos Triantis

Other Applications

P282

Title: Product Production Selection using Computer Simulation and Data Envelopment Analysis
Authors: Ruzanita Mat Rani, Wan Rosmanira Ismail and Wan Nor Hazwani Wan Nordin
Speaker: Ruzanita Mat Rani

P299

Title: Information Efficiency of European Countries with Data Envelopment Analyses
Authors: Kamil Çelik, Cevriye Gencer and Lawrence Seiford
Speaker: Kamil Çelik

P84

Title: Measuring Chinese regional eco-inefficiency using data envelopment analysis and bootstrap strategy
Authors: Yanmin Shao, Ai Han and Shouyang Wang
Speaker: Yanmin Shao

P138

Title: Benchmarking Information Technology IT induced Productivity for Engineering and Construction Organization: Data Envelopment Analysis Model Approach.
Authors: Yahuza Kassim
Speaker: Yahuza Kassim

(37) IPS Seminar Room A, Chairman: Adel Hatamimarbini

Fuzzy DEA/Applications

P61

Title: New insights on estimating most productive scale size in DEA
Authors: Robabeh Eslami and Mohammad Khoveyni
Speaker: Robabeh Eslami

P256

Title: An alternative multi-attribute decision making method basis on aggregating preference ranking
Authors: Majid Zerafat Angiz Langroudi, Adli Mustafa, Ali Emrouznejad and Razamin Ramli
Speaker:  Razamin Ramli

P294

Title: An Integrated Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis and Data Mining for Performance Assessment of Insurance branches
Authors: Shafaghizadeh Somayeh and Yousefinejad Attari Mahdi
Speaker: Somayeh Shafaghizadeh

P169

Title: An Integrated Strategic DEA-based Structure for Supplier Selection in Supply Chain Management
Authors: Adel Hatamimarbini and Siavash Hekmat
Speaker: Adel Hatamimarbini

SESSION 7 (Parallel)       Thursday April 17^th      14:00-15:30

(38) IPPP Auditorium, Chairman: Sangmok Kang Kang

Theory and Modeling

P118

Title: Estimation of Efficiency Based on the Material Balance Flow
Authors: Sangmok Kang and Subhash Ray
Speaker: Sangmok Kang Kang

P180

Title: Conditional Efficiency Measurement Using CondEff Toolbox
Authors: Luiza Badin, Cinzia Daraio and Leopold Simar
Speaker: Luiza Badin

P260

Title: Impact of Sales Changes on DEA Efficiency Scores
Authors: Hilal Atasoy and Rajiv Banker
Speaker: Hilal Atasoy

P99

Title: Enhancing the assessment of productivity change and convergence analyzing the best and worst practices in the construction industry
Authors: Isabel Horta and Ana Camanho
Speaker: Isabel Horta

(39) IPPP Seminar Room 1, Chairman: Hilal Atasoy

Other Applications

P296

Title: Evaluating the performance of customs clearance agents: a case study in Thailand
Authors: Patcharaporn Neammanee and Walailak Atthirawong
Speaker: Patcharaporn Neammanee

P300

Title: System Dynamics Modeling for Establishing the importance of an Integrated Approach based on Rotated Factor Analysis and DEA over Principal Component Analysis based DEA
Authors: Deepankar Sinha and Mrinal Dasgupta
Speaker: Deepankar Sinha

P324

Title: Technical and Scale Efficiency of Saving and Credit Cooperatives: Evidence from Tanzania
Authors: Nyankomo Marwa
Speaker: Nyankomo Marwa

P80

Title: Performance of Vietnamese Higher Education Institutions in 2011/12: A Dea Approach
Authors: Carolyn Dung Thi Thanh Tran, Renato Villano and George Battese
Speaker: Carolyn Thi Thanh Dung Tran

(40) IPPP Seminar Room 2, Chairman: Azmah Othman

Banking and Finance

P269

Title: A New DEA-Based Ranking Approach Using Subjectivity Metric
Authors: Nabil Channouf and Amar Oukil
Speaker: Nabil Channouf

P272

Title: The Effect of Public Expenditure Efficiency on Private Investment in Malaysia
Authors: Sallahuddin Hassan and Mohd Zaini Abd Karim
Speaker: Sallahuddin Hassan

P93

Title: Efficiency of Islamic Banks: A Comparative Study of Bangladesh and Malaysia
Authors: Md. Azizur Rahman, Md. Abul Kalam Azad and Muhammad Showkat Imran
Speaker: Md. Abul Kalam Azad

P184

Title:Efficiency Measurement of the Turkish Commercial Banks using Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis
Authors: Erhan Berk
Speaker: Erhan Berk

SESSION 7 (Parallel)        Thursday April 17th       14:00-15:30

(41) IPPP Video Conference Room, Chairman: Carlos Ernani Fries

Transportation

P182

Title: Evaluation of the impact of information and communication technologies on the efficiency of Brazilian logistics service providers
Authors: Carlos Ernani Fries
Speaker: Carlos Ernani Fries

P238

Title: Measuring efficiency and effectiveness of transport service: A novel approach
Authors: Barbara T.H. Yen, Lawrence W. Lan and Yu-Chiun Chiou
Speaker: Lawrence Lan

P261

Title: Seaport Risk Assessment: A Non-parametric Approach
Authors: Kasypi Mokhtar and Muhammad Zaly Shah Muhammad Hussein
Speaker: Kasypi Mokhtar

P27

Title: Measuring Productivity and Efficiency of Seaports in India using Data Envelopment Analysis
Authors: Jeronimo G. R. Monteiro
Speaker: Jeronimo G. R. Monteiro

(42) IPS Auditorium, Chairman: Ayhan Gölcükcü

Other Applications

P242

Title: The Technical Efficiency of Mergers and Acquisitions Telecommunication Companies: Evidence from ASEAN
Authors: Wan Anisabanum Salleh, Wan Mansor Wan Mahmood and Fadzlan Sufian
Speaker: Wan Anisabanum Salleh

P305

Title: Social Protection: An Empirical Attempt to Estimate Performance and Efficiency of the System
Authors: Anastasia Klimova
Speaker: Anastasia Klimova

P82

Title: Data fusion on rock breakage using Data Envelopment Analysis
Authors: Tommi Kauppinen, John Jackson, Emmanuel Manlapig and Janine Lay
Speaker: Tommi Kauppinen

P98

Title: Do Players Performance Indicate Team Performance: Turkish Basketball League Example
Authors: Hasan Bal and Ayhan Gölcükcü
Speaker: Hasan Bal

(43) IPS Seminar Room A, Chairman: Qing Li

Banking and Finance

P131

Title: Foreign Direct Investment and Trade on TFP in Malaysia's Selected Manufacturing Industries
Authors: Rosmiza Rosly
Speaker: Rosmiza Rosly

P292

Title:The Impact of Regulation and Supervision on Islamic Banks’ Efficiency
Authors: Fadzlan Sufian and Nor Halida Haziaton Mohd Noor
Speaker: Halida Mohd Noor

P298

Title: The Efficiency of Inviting Foreign Investment in Cities of Economic Zone on the Basis of DEA
Authors: Qing Li
Speaker: Qing Li

P129

Title: The impact of supervisory, regulation and market structure changes on bank efficiency in Asean-4

Authors: Fauzi Zainir, Hsieng Yang Koh, Sok Gee Chan and Aidil Rizal Shahrin

Speaker: Fauzi Zainir

Thursday April 17,   th16:00-17:30

(44) IPPP Auditorium

Panel Discussion and Closing Ceremony

Chair

Rajiv Banker

Title

Past-Present-Future of DEA

Panelists

Subhash Ray, Maria Portelo, Emmanuel Thanassoulis, Victor Podinovski and Konstantinos Triantis

Closing Ceremony

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