supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant Nos.2015M571135,2015M570155,and 2015M571134;the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.71271196,71201156,71403055,and 21307150;Science Funds for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China;University of Science and Technology of China under Grant Nos.71121061 and WK2040160008
When the allocated fixed cost is treated as the complement of other costs, conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) researches have ignored the effect of the return to scale (RTS) in fixed cost Mlocation probl...