The smart city can be described as a city where close attention

is focused on economic development, environment preservation, quality of life

and the management of natural resources, with information and communication
technology (ICT) playing a leading role in these respects.

Six principal criteria

have often been used to characterize and rank Smart City, viz. regional economic
competitiveness, mobility in relation to ICT and transportation, natural resources,
human and social capital, quality of life, and citizen involvement in local
government.
the Analytical
Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to assign weightage to various criteria
commonly associated with Smart City, and to identify the principal determinants
instrumental to its achievements.
�Pair-wise comparisons� were applied in determining the weightage for each
factor in the AHP process, with scores calculated using Microsoft Excel. Scoring
for the pairwise comparison matrix (PCM)