Improving the methodology of multi-criteria assessment of indicators of sustainable development of socioeconomic systems, based on information technologies

Abstract

The general concept of humanity's further progress is sustainable development. Despite long-term and multifaceted research, fundamental questions still remain unsolved. Including the quantitative evaluation of the value of indicators. This is because indicators are complex quantities that manifest themselves in various aspects in reality. Due to their different physical meaning, the indicators reflecting them are expressed in different dimensions, they are of unequal importance, etc. Today, multi-criteria methods are used to combine them. Their main drawback is that they are all based on linear estimation, i.e. the importance of the indicator does not depend on its value. This is contrary to the reality of life, where all processes develop non-linearly. The proposed methodology is based on non-linear functional dependencies, which allow obtaining the dimensionless values expressed by indicators of sustainable development, i.e. expressed in uniform units of measure. This significantly improves existing multi-criteria methods, as expert assessment of the importance of indicators becomes unnecessary. Integration methods based on quadratic and cubic formulas are expected to be used to combine the values of the indicators into one quantity.