The March issue of
Decision Analysis has now been published. It begins with an editorial coauthored by Simon French (Department of Statistics, University of Warwick) and myself, "
Decision Analysis Focus and Trends," which can help you decide whether an upcoming publication of yours might be appropriate for the journal. The issue includes five other papers, as follows. Enjoy reading!
--Vicki Bier (Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
1) "
What Is Six Hours Worth? The Impact of Lead Time on Tropical-Storm Preparation Decisions," by Eva Regnier (Defense Management, Naval Postgraduate School)
2) "Valuing Sequences of Lives Lost or Saved over Time: Preference for Uniform Sequences," by Jeffery Guyse (Technology and Operations Management, Cal Poly Pomona), Robin Keller (Operations and Decision Technologies, University of California, Irvine), and Candice Hyunh (Management, Cal Poly Pomona)
3) "A Review of Probabilistic Opinion Pooling Algorithms with Application to Insider Threat Detection," by Jared Beekman, Ronald Woodaman, and Dennis Buede (Innovative Decisions, Inc.)
4) "Open Source of Closed Source? A Competitive Analysis with Software Security," by Xing Gao (Economics and Management, Southeast University, Nanjing, China)
5) "On Bi-level Optimization with Inexact Follower," by Hosein Zare and Oleg Prokopyev (Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh), and Dennis Saure (Industrial Engineering, University of Chile)
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Vicki Bier
Professor
University of Wisconsin
Madison WI
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