UDC 303.732.4: 53.08: 303.224: 536.71
DOI: 10.36871/2618-9976.2020.12.002

Authors

Averin Gennady Viktorovich
Doctor of Engineering Science, Professor, Head of the Department of Computer Technology, Donetsk National University, Donetsk
Zviagintseva Anna Viktorovna
Doctor of Engineering Science, Professor of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Modeling, docent, Belgorod State National Research University, Belgorod, Russia
Shvetsova Angela Alexsandrovna
Assistant Professor of the Department of World Economy, Belgorod State National Research University, Belgorod, Russia

Abstract

Recently, there are prerequisites for expanding the scope of application of formalized models in the social and humanitarian sciences, but the problem of measurability or quantification of many concepts is poorly studied in the sociohumanitarian sciences. The paper’s goal is to elaboration the general principles of integrated assessment, which would be distinguished by the use of an objective approach when creating measurement procedures in relation to the states of complex systems. Suppose that on the base of the picked similarity, probably to build a measuring scale for comparing states with each other. The main measurement principles used are the law of corresponding states and the twopoint method, which consists in constructing a linear reference process on two states of the reference object. In the proposed method, the main object of measurements and modeling is the system status, which is defined by from one side by traits, and on the second side by complex measures related to the entire group of observed objects as a whole. This afford us to fix the interplay between the parameters of the objects properties in the form of equations of state, for which a measuring scale is built on the basis of the selected similarity measures for the relative comparison of states with each other. Specific examples for socioeconomic and naturalanthropogenic systems illustrate the process of developing such procedures, which are distinguished by the use of an objective approach to measurement. The use of geometric, probabilistic, and empirical similarity measures in the measurement of states of complex systems is demonstrated. In general, the suggested approach can be used for complex measurements in both socioeconomic and humanitarian sciences.

Keywords

States of complex systems
Principles of comprehensive assessment
Objective measurement systems
Multidimensional scaling
State equations in the social sciences
and humanities
Application examples