Abstract
The new paradigm for economic growth, social equality and environmental protection named sustainable development (SD) was introduced into the international community at the end of the 20th century. However, there are still difficulties in reliably assessing a specific objectives of SD. Among them the attention of many researchers has been drawn to sustainable city and society goal. In this study, we focus on data from 2013 to 2017 from EU countries in the context of their sustainable cities and society assessment. We propose a new approach to evaluating sustainable cities and society. A MCDA method called COMET was adopted to measure sustainability level. The obtained results were compared with reference MCDA methods called TOPSIS and VIKOR. The similarity coefficients are used to examine the similarity of final rankings. The motivation to choose the COMET method was a set of its abilities in opposite to the existing MCDA method, COMET is a rank reversal free method. Additionally, as a result of COMET model exploitation, the whole domain model is identified.
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An Attempt to Sustainable Cities and Society Evaluation - MCDA Based Approach
The new paradigm for economic growth, social equality and environmental protection named sustainable development (SD) was introduced into the international community at the end of the 20th century. However, there are still difficulties in reliably assessing a specific objectives of SD. Among them the attention of many researchers has been drawn to sustainable city and society goal. In this study, we focus on data from 2013 to 2017 from EU countries in the context of their sustainable cities and society assessment. We propose a new approach to evaluating sustainable cities and society. A MCDA method called COMET was adopted to measure sustainability level. The obtained results were compared with reference MCDA methods called TOPSIS and VIKOR. The similarity coefficients are used to examine the similarity of final rankings. The motivation to choose the COMET method was a set of its abilities in opposite to the existing MCDA method, COMET is a rank reversal free method. Additionally, as a result of COMET model exploitation, the whole domain model is identified.
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Watrobski, J., Wieckowski, J., Shekhovtsov, A., Ziemba, E., Kizielewicz, B., & Sałabun, W. (2021). An Attempt to Sustainable Cities and Society Evaluation - MCDA Based Approach. In E. Insfran, F. González, S. Abrahão, M. Fernández, C. Barry, H. Linger, M. Lang, & C. Schneider (Eds.), Information Systems Development: Crossing Boundaries between Development and Operations (DevOps) in Information Systems (ISD2021 Proceedings). Valencia, Spain: Universitat Politècnica de València.