Using MCDM for soft target's identification

This article is focused on Soft targets, especially on the identification of them. Nowadays, the Soft targets are the main topic in security. Many terrorist attacks show that violence is a big problem and it is necessary to find solutions. The Soft targets are the place, object or event that are specific to the accumulation of a large number of people and the absence or low level of security measures against violent assaults. However, these characteristics are insufficient. Very important is attractiveness. This attractiveness is the goal of our research and this article. We tried to describe the attractiveness of the object, place or events and to calculate how big the attractiveness is. It is important for planning of security measures because we can predict what object, place or event will be the other target of terrorist attack with the help of attractiveness. We used MCDM (multi-criteria decision making) for the calculation of this attractiveness. © 2018 IEEE.Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech RepublicMinistry of Education, Youth & Sports - Czech Republic [LO1303 (MSMT-7778/2014)]; European Regional Development Fund under the project CEBIA-Tech [CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0089]; Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic [VI20172019073, VI20172019054