“…Since it was first developed by Charnes et al [1], DEA (data envelopment analysis) has been widely used to measure the performance of DMUs (decision making unites) that convert multi-inputs into multi-outputs, such as bank performance [2,3], company performance [4,5], hospital web security [6], production planning [7], energy consumption productivity [8], bankruptcy assessment [9], electricity distribution [10], R&D performance [11], agricultural economics [12], airport performance [13], and other applications [14]. In traditional DEA models, DMU is treated as a "black box, " in which the inputs enter and outputs exit, neglecting the intervening steps [15].…”