Investment and Defense Strategies, Heuristics, and Games: From the Editor

L. Robin Keller ()
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L. Robin Keller: Operations and Decision Technologies, The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697

Decision Analysis, 2011, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-3

Abstract: In our first article, Joseph B. Kadane discusses “Partial-Kelly Strategies and Expected Utility: Small-Edge Asymptotics.” The next article is by Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos, on “Psychological Heuristics for Making Inferences: Definition, Performance, and the Emerging Theory and Practice.” We then move to papers analyzing strategic national defense. In our third article, David J. Caswell, Ronald A. Howard, and M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell present “Analysis of National Strategies to Counter a Country's Nuclear Weapons Program.” Next, Kjell Hausken and Jun Zhuang examine “Governments' and Terrorists' Defense and Attack in a T -Period Game.” Finally, Jeryl L. Mumpower analyzes strategy in the sport of squash in “Playing Squash Against Ralph Keeney: Should Weaker Players Always Prefer Shorter Games?” In conclusion, we announce our upcoming special issue on “Games and Decisions in Reliability and Risk.”

Keywords: decision analysis; adversary analysis; conflict; constant relative risk aversion; contest success function; decision bias; decision tree; dynamics; heuristics; inference; influence diagrams; Kelly strategies; medicine; national security; nuclear proliferation; optimization; partial-Kelly; philosophy of modeling; probability; sports; strategy; terror capacity; terrorism; threat; uncertainty; utility; editorial (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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