Awards

Awards

The Decision Analysis Society gives four awards:

Frank P. Ramsey Medal
The Frank P. Ramsey Medal is the highest award of the DAS and recognizes distinguished contributions to the field of decision analysis.
2021 Winner: Robert F. Bordley. (See full announcement)

Decision Analysis Publication Award
The Publication Award is given annually to the best decision analysis article or book published in the second preceding calendar year (i.e. publications appearing in 2019 are considered for the 2021 award).
2021 Winner: Asa Palley & Jack Soll for the paper "Extracting the wisdom of crowds when information is
shared," in Management Science, 65.5 (2019): 2291-2309

Decision Analysis Practice Award
The Practice Award is given jointly by the DAS and the Society of Decision Professionals to the best decision analysis application, as judged by a panel of members of both societies.
2021 Co-Winners:

  •  Joice Ribeiro Giacon, Gustavo Martins and Kislan Santos (Optimum Supply) with the project "Optimum Supply: e-procurement decision analysis platform to maximize the value of strategic sourcing choices"
  •  Saurabh Bansal (Penn State University) and Genaro Gutierrez (University of Texas at Austin) with the project:  "Use of judgmental forecasts with expert heterogeneity to support biofuel jet fuels in a Federal Aviation Administration Program"

DAS Student Paper Award
The Student Paper Award is given annually to the best decision analysis paper by a student author.
2021 Winner: Nicolò Bertani, for the paper "Fast and Simple Adaptive Elicitations: Experimental Test for Probability
Weighting", co-authored with Abdellah Boukhatem, Enrico Diecidue, Patrice Perny and Paolo Viappiani

To learn more about each of these awards, including the nomination process and a list of past winners), follow the links above.