Handbook of Decision Analysis

About the Authors

The handbook was written by the first four contributors. The primary authors of each chapter are on its title page; however, all four authors contributed to each chapter. The handbook has four illustrative examples; the Roughneck North American Strategy was written by Eric R. Johnson; the Geneptin was written by Sean Xinghua Hu; the Data Center Location written by Gregory S. Parnell; and the Data Center portfolio was written by Terry A. Bresnick.

Dr. GREGORY S. PARNELL is a professor of systems engineering at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. His research focuses on decision and risk analysis for defense, intelligence, homeland security, and environmental applications. He has also taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the Air Force Institute of Technology. He has taught over 60 1-week decision analysis professional courses for government and commercial clients. He has been Chairman of the Board and is a senior principal analyst with Innovative Decisions, Inc., a decision analysis consulting firm. Dr. Parnell is a former president of the Decision Analysis Society of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) and of the Military Operations Research Society (MORS). He has also served as editor of Journal of Military Operations Research. Dr. Parnell has published more than 100 papers and book chapters and has coedited Decision Making for Systems Engineering and Management, Wiley Series in Systems ...