“…In the 100-factor solution, 21 factors are related to MCDM applications. These applications cover not only traditional application areas, such as asset management [24], scheduling problem [25], assignment problem [26], questionnaire survey [27], credit scoring [28,29,30,31], and risk evaluation [32,33,34]; but also emerging novel areas, such as verbal data classification [35], Web-based decision support [36], habitual domains [37], electronic commerce systems [38,39], and e-participation [40]. The second trend is that MCDM has entered into some new research areas [41].…”