Multiple criteria decision-making: Risk analyses for cultural events as one of the soft target categories

Abstract

This article is focused on risk analysis with the help of multi-criteria decision making. We create many risk analyses for Soft targets, and we continually try to find new methods for objective evaluation of the risks. Many risk analyses are subjective, which is a problem for planning security measures and comparing the results (other events, object, place etc.). In this article, we present our case study, which deals with the utilization of fuzzy TOPSIS. We have chosen one category of the Soft targets - the cultural events. Our goal was to find the most endangered localization for the violent attacks in the cultural event selected - musical concert. Then we started to cooperate with three experts. They filled in data in our risk analysis, and then we compared the results with practice. We have chosen fuzzy TOPSIS because we assumed this method would be more objective. In the end, this hypothesis has confirmed. The results were objectively and in line with practice.