Evaluation of the rural informatization level in central China based on catastrophe progression method

Abstract

This paper developed a methodology based on the catastrophe theory for estimating the rural informatization level in central China, and took evaluation of the rural informatization level among the six provinces of central China as an example to test the effectiveness of the method. Taking data from reference and constructing the hierarchy based on catastrophe progression method, it was calculated the scores of rural informatization level among the six provinces of central China using normalizing formula. The results are found to be coincident with practical situation, so it proves the catastrophe progression method works well. © 2011 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.