Application of the Universal Decision Support System SVIR to Solving Urban Problems

Many problems of cities and their inhabitants can be presented as a choice of the preferred embodiment on a finite set of alternatives. The emphasis in the paper is not to discuss various urban problems, but to give methods for their solution. In this paper we describe the universal Decision Support System (DSS) SVIR and its application to solving urban problems. This system implements most of the known methods of multiattribute choice. It is argued that versatility of the system allows us to not only solve various problems of choice, but also to solve a single problem by different methods. This helps to debug the model of choice and increases the objectivity of the evaluation. The considered system is a promising tool for solving complex social and humanitarian problems, which consist of many aspects.