 
                                                                                | Article ID: | iaor200973427 | 
| Volume: | 172 | 
| Issue: | 1 | 
| Start Page Number: | 37 | 
| End Page Number: | 43 | 
| Publication Date: | Nov 2009 | 
| Journal: | Annals of Operations Research | 
| Authors: | Soleimani-damaneh M, Zarepisheh M | 
| Keywords: | programming: linear | 
Imposing additional weight restrictions increases the degeneracy and computational complexity of solving Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models, a known class of linear programming models. In this paper some linear transformations to reduce these problems are provided.