“…In addition to these aforementioned works based on diesel engines, other similar studies were realized using biodiesel [21], gasoline [22][23][24], dual fuel [25-28] and other fuels [29][30][31][32][33][34].Numerical simulations also provide interesting information to analyze multiple injections. Particularly, in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), one can refer to the work of Lechner et al [35], who analyzed advanced injection strategies to achieve partially premixed combustion in a diesel engine; Sun and Reitz [36], who analyzed injection strategies to optimize two-stage combustion; Verbiezen et al [37], who analyzed the effect of injection timing; Zehni and Jafarmadar [38], who analyzed the effect of split injection in a direct-injection diesel engine; Abdullah et al [39], who analyzed the effect of injection pressure; Coskun et al [40], who analyzed second injection timings; Wang et al [41], who analyzed several fuel injection strategies on a gasoline engine; Zhaojie et al [42], who analyzed two-stage fuel injection with EGR; Lamas et al [43,44], who analyzed several configurations of pilot injections; and Sencic [45], who analyzed alternative injection patterns.Despite this literature about multiple injections, it is important to develop a reliable tool to characterize the most appropriate injection pattern. In this regard, this work presents a Multiple-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach to characterize the most appropriate injection pattern.…”