Happy new year from Decision Analysis! The December issue has now been published, just in time for the new year. There are five great papers that are worth a look, available at
https://pubsonline.informs.org/toc/deca/18/41) On (Measurable) Multiattribute Value Functions: An Expository Argument, by James E. Smith and James S. Dyer
2) Microfoundations of Discounting, by Alexander Adamou, Yonatan Berman, Diomides Mavroyiannis, and Ole Peters
3) Preference-Approval Structures in Group Decision Making: Axiomatic Distance and Aggregation, by Yucheng Dong, Yao Li, Ying He, and Xia Chen
4) A New Binary Programming Formulation and Social Choice Property for Kemeny Rank Aggregation, by Yeawon Yoo and Adolfo R. Escobedo
5) Numerical Solution of Asymmetric Auctions, by Timothy C. Au, David Banks and Yi Guo
Also several bonus features:
Call for papers on decision analysis for environmental sustainability (https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/deca.2021.0444)
and announcement of the first annual Clemen–Kleinmuntz Decision Analysis Best Paper Award (formerly the Special Recognition Award):
Winner Guyse et al., Valuing Sequences of Lives Lost or Saved Over Time: Preference for Uniform Sequences
Finalist Simon et al., Interdependent Altruistic Preference Models
Happy new year, everyone, and happy reading!
------------------------------
Vicki Bier
Professor Emerita
University of Wisconsin
Madison WI
------------------------------