**5. Conclusions**

In this study, we researched the actual task of developing technology to support decision-making by the managers of smart cities in assessing the competencies of specialists (management entities) and their selection to solve special or innovative tasks. The following results were obtained:


The individual components of the smart city concept will form future work on the separate application areas for innovative modeling and evaluation of measures with an impact on public funds. As we have emphasized, the innovative web platform "Smart City Concept Personnel Selection" can be adapted to different users of municipalities or regional institutions for the transparent selection of qualified personnel for effective decision-making and use of public funds. The innovative web platform will respect local conditions and national law regulations and standards. The importance of innovative solutions to support transparent decision-making and the efficient use of public resources is growing in the context of current European Union support for the development and implementation of country-specific recovery and resilience plans, primarily for the recovery of member states and regions in 2021–2027 after the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Among other things, we also see further research in ablation experiments aimed at extending scientific validation of developed technological models to support the decisions of smart city managers, with this method. According to other researchers, we respect that although an ablation study is of course usually not sufficient to conclude the contributions of different modules, when coupled with other empirical and statistical methods, it can provide valuable insights to practitioners and researchers [49].

**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, M.K., V.P. and B.G.; methodology, M.K. and V.P.; resources, B.G., V.P. and M.K.J.; data curation, V.P. and M.K.J.; investigation and formal analysis, M.K., V.P., B.G. and R.R.; supervision, M.K.; project administration, V.P.; writing—original draft preparation, M.K., V.P. and B.G.; writing—review and editing, M.K., V.P., B.G., R.R., J.B.; L.G. and M.G.; funding acquisition, M.K. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This work was supported and funded by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the contract no. PP-COVID-20-0002.

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** Not applicable.

**Informed Consent Statement:** Not applicable.

**Data Availability Statement:** Data supporting the reported results can be found at the following links: https://www.kosice.sk/mesto/samosprava/mestske-zastupitelstvo/2018-2022/komisie (accessed on 25 April 2021), https://www.kosice.sk/clanok/komisia-dopravy-a-vystavby-2018-2022 (accessed on 25 April 2021), https://static.kosice.sk/files/manual/umr/Vstupna\_sprava\_UMR\_ Kosice\_a\_funk\_oblast.pdf (accessed on 25 April 2021).

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
