Provide a Data Envelopment Analysis/Data Mining Integrated Model for Evaluation of Decision-making Units

Efficiency is an important issue for the managers of different companies and organizations, as well as customers who are interested in services of these companies and organizations. The aim of this research is to study the efficiency of pharmaceutical companies accepted in stock exchange organization using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and then, providing some rules using the decision tree. The Malmquist index partly resolves the problem of inadequacy of the observations by enabling the combination of time-series and cross-sectional observations. This method acts on the basis of moving average and it is of use for finding performance trends of a unit during the time. In this research, regarding the inputs and outputs and using the Malmquist index, efficiency evaluation of 22 pharmaceutical companies accepted in stock exchange organization has been done in the state of constant returns to scale during 2012-2016, and the results obtained were used as the class label of Decision-Making Units (DMUs) which are in fact inputs of decision tree method. Finally, using the decision tree, rules implicit in the data, are extracted.