S.A. Yamashkin1

1 National Research Mordovian State University (Saransk, Russia)
1 yamashkinsa@mail.ru

Managing geographically distributed organizational systems requires obtaining reproducible and interpretable assessments of the state of the operating environment based on heterogeneous spatial data. Existing approaches are typically limited to cartographic visualization and spatial overlay operations, or use individual multicriteria analysis methods without integrating them into a comprehensive decision support mechanism. This complicates the transition from a set of individual indicators to an integrated assessment of the state of the territory suitable for solving practice-oriented management problems. An additional complication is that the state of the operating environment of the spatially distributed organizational systems is influenced by a multitude of diverse natural, social, and infrastructural factors with different dimensions, measurement scales, and the nature of their influence on decisions. In the absence of a single, formalized unit of analysis and an agreed-upon procedure for standardizing, aggregating, and interpreting indicators, assessment results are poorly comparable and of limited applicability within the management framework. Thus, the problem statement requires developing a comprehensive assessment mechanism that enables the transition from multidimensional spatial data to integrated assessments of territorial units of analysis suitable for use in decision support tasks in geographically distributed organizational systems. An approach to formalizing the territorial unit of analysis as the basic object for assessing the state of the spatially distributed organizational systems operating environment is proposed. A structure for the territorial unit of analysis passport is developed, ensuring the systematization of indicators by main blocks and their subsequent use in comprehensive assessment procedures. A mechanism for the transition from a set of heterogeneous spatial indicators to an integrated assessment based on standardization procedures and multicriteria convolution is developed. It is shown that the resulting integrated assessments can be used to solve three classes of management problems: identifying territorial units of analysis for a given management problem, selecting a configuration for their use, and determining the parameters necessary to transform a territorial unit of analysis into a target state. The proposed mechanism improves the validity of management decisions through formalized and reproducible assessment of the state of the spatially distributed organizational systems operating environment. Its application is appropriate for territorial planning, facility placement, risk analysis, natural resource and infrastructure development, as well as for constructing spatially-oriented decision support systems for various applied subject areas.

Yamashkin S.A. A mechanism for integrated assessment of territorial units of analysis to support decision-making in spatially distributed organizational systems // Nonlinear World. 2026. V. 24. № 3. P. 5–13. DOI: https:// doi.org/10.18127/ j20700970-202603-01

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