Determination of Alternative Design of Hornbill Estuary Embankment in Semarang City with Process Hierarchy Analysis Method

Rob’s condition in Semarang is exacerbated by the decrease in the soil level which has a part in the expansion of rob puddles. Therefore, this research is needed to determine the alternative design of the Tenggang River estuary embankment. Researchers collect data with interviews and surveys, then made analysis with Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method which is one of the decision making models in the selection of Embankment Design, the levee design consists of three selected design alternatives. This research focused on decision making based on perceptions of Professionals, Experts, Academics and community leaders.. Where the design of the Embankment consists of 3 alternative designs with priority factors based on analysis and equations of the criteria in the selection of the design, namely, topographic factors (0.133), geology (0.312), hydrology (0.125), Society (0.186), cost (0.113) and benefit (0.131).

FORMATION OF QUALITY CRITERIA OF ADVERTISING VIDEO USING THE METHOD OF ANALYSIS OF THE SAATI HIERARCHY

The article contains substantiated criteria for the quality of an advertising video using the Saaty hierarchy analysis method. Thanks to the proposed recommendations, the enterprise can prioritize the video content development process and focus more on the significant criteria that affect the final result. The equivalence of the influence on the quality of the video of such criteria as the level of personnel qualifications, the quality of the script, the price and speed of creation, technical equipment has been proved. Other criteria are less important, but have their own contribution.

Directions of modernization of the system of state strategic planning in Ukraine

The systematically organized state strategic planning is the crucial factor of effective public governance. However, main problems of such planning in Ukraine may be noted as absence of the systematic forecasting and long-term strategic planning, undetermined links and mechanisms of coordination between strategic documents, lack of clear and unified standards, procedures and functions' distribution between actors in planning process. Therefore, the aim of this study consists in determination of modernization directions of the state strategic planning in Ukraine by means of the integrated planning system formation. The definition of "state strategic planning" is proposed in this study with using comparative analysis of various approaches and viewpoints concerning strategic management and strategic planning. The proposed definition and problem analysis of current organization structures and procedures of planning in Ukraine assume as a basis of recommended modernization directions to form the System of State Strategic Planning in Ukraine. The appropriate system of strategic planning documents in Ukraine at national, regional and sectoral levels is suggested with using hierarchy analysis across these levels and analysis of the current set of Ukrainian approved documents in proper field. Special attention is given to national level because national strategic directions and goals constitute general framework for strategic documents at other levels. The 10-years Development Strategy of Ukraine is proposed as the main strategic document of national level. The study generalizes methodological principles, and develops institutional mechanism for making and executing mentioned Strategy, proposes the functions' distribution between governmental and other actors involved in this mechanism

Model of the quantitative criterion calculation for security assessment of the information and telecommunications systems in the critical infrastructure of the state

The subject of the article is methods and models for assessing the criticality of industry information and telecommunications systems (ITS). The purpose of this article is to analyze the existing methods and models of criticality assessment and use its results to propose a functional model for calculating the quantitative criterion for assessing the security of ITS. Results. Based on the known method of hierarchy analysis, a functional model for calculating the quantitative criterion for assessing ITS security is proposed, which, through the processing of expert assessments, allows to obtain a quantitative indicator of ITS security. This makes it possible to simplify the procedure for selecting experts, to avoid the specifics of processing expert data, as well as to assess ITS in a limited amount of statistics. Conclusions. The study showed that the developed model for calculating the quantitative criterion for assessing the security of ITS, using pairwise comparisons, allows experts to focus on the problem. In addition, the proposed model has a built-in quality criterion of the expert and allows to move from a qualitative assessment in the form of an ordered series of alphanumeric combinations, to a quantitative assessment in the form of the ratio of the basic security profile to the security profile defined by the expert.

The problem of selecting digital development priorities for the region and ways of its solution

The article discusses the problems of choosing digital development paths for the region, using the Nizhny Novgorod region as an example. Based on the hierarchy analysis method, regional policy priorities for deepening digitalisation processes have been determined. Alternative directions for the region’s digital development have been proposed in terms of priorities for improving information and communication infrastructure, enhancing human resources capacity, creating new digital technologies and investments in digitalisation. The necessity of integration of federal and municipal information systems and development of advanced production technologies related to information and communication technologies necessary to ensure the competitiveness and economic security of enterprises in the Nizhny Novgorod region has been substantiated.

Training Prospective Nanotechnologists to Select Optimum Solutions for the Nanostructures Synthesis Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Nanotechnologists are in great demand and this need is becoming more and more acute every year since nanomaterials have gained widespread acceptance in various industries. The specificity of nanotechnology is determined by a wide variety of existing nanomaterials and technologies for their synthesis. The study suggests an efficient technique for training prospective nanoengineers to make managerial decisions in the synthesis of nanostructures. Moreover, the article demonstrates that using T. Saati's hierarchy analysis method offers the optimum solution for obtaining nanostructures. The analysis is based on the most commonly used synthesis technologies such as chemical etching, photoelectrochemical etching and imprint lithography. The application of T. Saati's method allows prospective nanoengineers to optimize the synthesis of high-quality nanostructures as well as ensure an economic and competitive advantage and reduce the number of errors.

Lithofacies Architecture and Distribution Patterns of Lacustrine Mixed Fine-Grained Rocks —a Case Study of Permian Lucaogou Formation in Jimsar Sag, NW China

As the controlling effect of complex lithofacies of lacustrine mixed fine-grained rocks on the shale oil sweet spot remains unclear, core, outcrop, general logging, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging, testing, and production data were used to study the types, combination pattern, and genesis of lithofacies architectures of lacustrine mixed fine-grained rocks in the study area by lithofacies hierarchy analysis, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) logging, UAV, and 3D geological modeling. The research shows that: 1) According to lithology and sedimentary structure, the mixed fine-grained rocks can be divided into 13 lithofacies types of different origins in 5 sub-categories and 2 categories. 2) UAV photography was combined with a traditional field survey to characterize the 3D spatial distribution of lithofacies architecture of the Lucaogou Formation on the outcrop, and it is found that the lithofacies architecture patterns of mixed fine-grained rocks include three types: gradual change type, abrupt change type, and special type. The gradual change type with higher sand development degree and symmetrical lithofacies architecture has a high quality reservoir with dissolution pores, and is mixed beach-bar sand in the mixed zone. It is high in development degree and often appears as several similar cycles stacking over each other. The abrupt change type can be subdivided into two sub-types, asymmetric and smaller in reservoir thickness. It is very high in development degree and often comes in several similar cycles. The special type belongs to thick clastic rock relatively independent in the mixed fine-grained rocks with a high development degree of sand. The sand is a higher quality reservoir with properties of tight reservoir. It often appears as stacking of single cycle sand. 3) The different lithofacies architectures in the mixed fine-grained rocks have significant differences in distribution. The gradual change type is mainly composed of mudstone, dolomitic siltstone, and sandy dolomite, dolomitic siltstone, and mudstone, and appears in lenticular shape overlapping with each other on the plane. The abrupt change type is made up of felsic siltstone, dolomitic siltstone, sandy dolomite, and mudstone, and appears as isolated thin layers on the plane. The special type is mainly composed of mudstone and felsic siltstone, and mudstone, and turns up as lenses of different sizes on the plane.

On the Methodology for Assessing the State of Industrial and Fire Safety at the Enterprises of Oil and Gas Complex of Russia

The statistics of fires and accidents at the enterprises of oil and gas complex of Russia is presented. The choice of the method for assessing the state of industrial and fire safety is substantiated. It allows to transform the input information presented in the form of a characteristic description of the assessed event into an output dana that has a weighted numerical value. It is shown that the stable functioning of industrial enterprises depends on the safety margin of industrial and fire safety systems. Their maintenance at a certain level requires the allocation of resources (material, human, temporary, etc.), which are limited and insufficient to meet all the requests from the service managers. It is required to scientifically substantiate the targeted provision of activities that have a high index of risk. The purpose of the article is to obtain the result of the assessment of these measures in the form of a weighted risk indicator. This will allow to normalize each event included in the checklists (control sheets) of the enterprise for both industrial and fire safety. A pairwise comparison of the factors and alternatives using the selected method of hierarchy analysis makes it possible to identify the indicators of local and global priorities for each element under study. The weighting coefficients obtained in the form of local priorities relate to the event being tested. Global priorities are directly related to the services and structural units that ensure the sustainable functioning of the industrial and fire safety systems. Use of the methodology for assessing the state of industrial and fire safety at the objects of oil and gas complex of Russia will allow to transfer the management system of these enterprises to a new qualitative level.

Devising a procedure for calculating the technical condition index of locomotive nodes based on monitoring results

The widespread introduction of information technologies in the systems that manage technical fleets, the use of maintenance and repair systems based on risk assessment, is based on the calculation of a large enough number of indicators. Modern locomotives are equipped with systems for monitoring and diagnosing technical condition. Combining these systems with the Internet of Things and Big Data technologies provides an opportunity to use completely new approaches to fleet management. At the initial stage of the construction of such systems, it is necessary to devise criteria that make it possible to automatically determine the technical condition of a locomotive and its components in order to identify the locomotive in the total fleet that requires maintenance or repair. A procedure has been proposed for calculating the technical condition index of locomotives and their components based on data from monitoring systems. The procedure is based on the formation of latent diagnostic parameters employing the principal component method and on the subsequent calculation of the weight coefficients of these parameters applying the method of hierarchy analysis. The special feature of the proposed procedure is that when calculating the index, those latent diagnostic parameters are used that are derived from the group of control parameters whose weight coefficients are computed using the method of hierarchy analysis without involving experts. This paper reports the results from calculating the informativeness of the diagnostic parameters of load, loss, input, as well as their weight coefficients. The highest information content, from 0.5 to 0.85, is demonstrated by the load parameter; the smallest (0.05‒0.26) ‒ the input parameter. The average value and the dependences of changes in the technical condition index of a hydraulic transmission during the tests have been determined. Analysis of the technical condition index makes it possible to assess the transmission's response to changes in test modes, the dynamics of changes in losses