Model for determining competences of experts in the field of Military Science

Abstract

In addition to the fact that every science has its subject matter, theory, language and methods, it has to have its unique manner of determining the competence of experts in a certain field. This paper studies the manner of determining the competence of experts when the subject of research belongs to the field of Military Science. To identify the influence of individual elements on the competence of an expert, a model has been formed to define the evaluation of the competence. In order to arrive at a final value of the significance of elements of expert's competence, different subjective methods were used founded on ranking method and Full Consistency Method (FUCOM), Combinative Distance Based Assessment (CODAS), Complex Proportional Assessment (CORPAS), Additive Ratio Assessment (ARAS) and Combined Compromise Solution (CoCoSo), as well as the operator Einstein weighted arithmetic average for the aggregation of group decisions. The concurrence of experts was achieved by means of concordance coefficient, while Delphi method was used for the experts surveying process. The proposed model was tested on an illustrative example which proved the validity of the model and the possibility of its application in a real-life situation. This paper should provide assistance to researchers in the field of Military Science who use expert evaluation in their research.