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About the Authors

Gregory S. Parnell is Director, M.S. in Operations Management and Research Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas. He teaches systems engineering, decision analysis, operations management, and IE design courses. He coedited Decision Making for Systems Engineering and Management, Wiley Series in Systems Engineering, 2nd Ed, Wiley & Sons Inc., 2011, and cowrote the Wiley & Sons Handbook of Decision Analysis, 2013. Dr Parnell has taught at West Point, the United Stated Air Force Academy, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the Air Force Institute of Technology. He is a fellow of the International Committee on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), the Institute for Operations Research & Management Science, Military Operations Research Society, the Society for Decision Professionals, and the Lean Systems Society. During his Air Force career, he served in a variety of R&D positions and operations research positions including at the Pentagon where he led two analysis divisions supporting senior Air Force leadership. He is a retired Colonel in the US Air Force. Dr Parnell received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Buffalo, an M.E. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the University of Florida, an M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University.

Robert F. Bordley is an adjunct professor of decision analysis and systems ...