Classification & research advancement of comprehensive evaluation methods

This paper first summarizes and classifies the comprehensive evaluation (CE) methods in different fields, and analyses the principles, virtues, shortages and their application fields of each method. It explores the newly research development of CE methods. There are three major problems in existing methods: The first is the non_consistency about the evaluation conclusion when using different CE methods; the second is the lacking of special treatment in practice; the third is the disjoint between theory researches and practical applications. Based on this, the paper puts forward the new idea that the combined evaluation based on methods integration is to set up an I~3DSS that supports the consistent evaluations.