chenye@nuaa.edu.cn Ye Cllen is Professor of College of Economics and Management at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. Previously, he was a post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where he received his PhD degree in 2006. His research interests include the development of classification techniques within the field of multiple criteria decision analysis and its applications to water resources, inventory management and elsewhere.Dr. Chen has written papers which have been published in journals including Computers and Operations Research, Decision Support Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, INFOR, .OMEGA, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences and Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering. kwli@uwindsor.ca Kevin W. Li received the B.Sc. degree in control sciences and M.A.Sc. degree in systems engineering from Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, in 1991 and 1994, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in systems design engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada in 2003. Dr. Li is currently an associate professor in the Odette School of Business at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada. His research interests are concerned with finding equitable and sustainable solutions to complex decision problems at strategic and operational levels. His papers have been published in reputable journals such as Computers and Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of the Operational Research. Society, and Water Resources Research. His research has been supported by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) individual Discovery Grant and a number of internal grants "at the University of Windsor.Dr. Li is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an active member of the T