Visualizing production surfaces in 3D diagrams

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During the last four decades Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has attracted considerable attention in the OR community. Using DEA, the efficiency frontier is constructed based on assumptions concerning the production possibility set rather than a priori defining a functional relationship between inputs and outputs. In this contribution, we propose an algorithm to visualize the efficiency surface in a 3D diagram and to extract isoquants from the efficient hull based on different RTS assumptions which might be particularly helpful for presentation purposes. In doing so, we extend the existing literature which has concentrated on the visualization of production frontiers in 2D diagrams to the visualization of efficient rather than fully efficient hulls in 3D diagrams. Displaying a fully efficient hull, however, does not reflect all properties of the production possibility set as weakly efficient frontier segments are missing. Copyright © 2011 I. Seidl and M. Sommersguter-Reichmann.

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Seidl, I., & Sommersguter-Reichmann, M. (2011). Visualizing production surfaces in 3D diagrams. Advances in Operations Research, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/424989

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