摘要：The article presents a utility of multi-attributed hierarchical modelling approach to represent, analyze and study socioeconomic processes. The models are based on criteria tree for which the expert specifies the utility functions. The specific advantages of the approach are structuring the problem domain, a relative ease to build the models and the existence of underlying tools for comparative and what-if type of data analysis. We use these tools to construct two socioeconomic models, one for assessment of country’s knowledge infrastructure and the other one for assessment of quality of political and economic system. We demonstrate the utility of these two models through experimental application in the analysis of real-world data from Word CompetitivenessYearbook
