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Temporal SWARA-SPOTIS for Multi-Criteria Assessment of European Countries Regarding Sustainable RES Exploitation

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Information Technology for Management: Approaches to Improving Business and Society (FedCSIS-AIST 2022, ISM 2022)

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This paper aims to introduce a novel Temporal SWARA-SPOTIS method for multi-criteria temporal performance evaluation of alternatives. The proposed method combines the Step-Wise Weights Assessment Ratio Analysis (SWARA) method for determining the significance values of particular periods and the Stable Preference Ordering Towards Ideal Solution (SPOTIS) method for the multi-criteria assessment of alternatives. The developed method was applied to construct a framework for assessing the sustainable use of renewable energy sources (RES) by European countries in various branches of the economy and industry, considering multiple criteria and the dynamics of change of the obtained results over time. The application of the proposed method is presented in an illustrative example covering the assessment of 30 selected European countries over the five years 2015–2019 with data from Eurostat. The presented approach proved its usefulness in the problem investigated and allowed obtaining reliable and straightforward results indicating that the best-scored countries regarding sustainable use of RES are dominantly the Nordic countries.

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This research was partially funded by National Science Centre, Poland 2022/45/N/HS4/03050

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Bączkiewicz, A. (2023). Temporal SWARA-SPOTIS for Multi-Criteria Assessment of European Countries Regarding Sustainable RES Exploitation. In: Ziemba, E., Chmielarz, W., Wątróbski, J. (eds) Information Technology for Management: Approaches to Improving Business and Society. FedCSIS-AIST ISM 2022 2022. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 471. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29570-6_9

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