期刊名称：THEORY AND DECISION
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The field of decision has been investigated from many sides. However, research programs relevant to decision making in psychology, management science, economics, the theory of games, statistics, operations research, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and analytical philosophy have remained separate. Theory and Decision is devoted to all aspects of decision making belonging to such programs, but addresses also possible cross-fertilizations between these disciplines which would represent effective advances in knowledge. The purpose of the journal is to let the engineering of choice gradually emerge both for individual and for collective decision making. Formalized treatments will be favoured, to the extent that they provide new insights into the issues raised and an appropriate modeling of the situation considered. Due to its growing importance, expermentation in decision making as well as its links to the cognitive sciences will be granted special attention by Theory and Decision.
Of particular interest are:
Preference and belief modeling,
Experimental decision making under risk or under uncertainty,
Decision analysis, multicriteria decision modeling,
Game theory, negotiation theory, collective decision making, social choice,
Rationality, cognitive processes and interactive decision making,
Methodology of the decision sciences.
Applications to various problems in management and organization science, economics and finance, computer-supported decision schemes, will be welcome as long as they bear on sufficiently general cases. Analysis of actual decision making processes are also relevant topics for the journal, whether pertaining to individual, collective or negotiatory approaches; to private decisions or public policies; to operations or to strategic choices.
Abstracted/Indexed in:
Academic Abstracts, Compendex, Computer and Information Systems Abstracts, Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences, Current Index to Statistics, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, ISI Alerting Services, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Mathematical Reviews, Medline, Psyc-INFO, Psychological Abstracts, Referativnyi Zhurnal, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), SCOPUS, Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), Social SciSearch, Sociological Abstracts, Zentralblatt Math
Instructions to Authors
General
The field of decision in the social sciences has been investigated from many sides. All too often, however, different research approaches have been followed seperately by management science, economics, psychology, operations research, cybernetics and computer aided decision making. They need mutual enrichment. Theory and Decision addresses the cross-fertilization of the methods of these disciplines.
The purpose of the journal is to let the engineering of decision-making (i.e. of intelligence, choice, sorting out, ranking, uncertainty and conflict resolution) gradually are merge. Special attention will be accorded to complex or ill-structured situations. Mathematical or other formalized treatments will be favored, if they provide a correct modeling of the given situation.
Of particular interest are:
Preference and uncertainty modeling
Multi criteria decision-making
Social choice, negotiation and group decision
Game theory, gaming and conflict analysis
Rationality, cognitive processes and interactive decision making
Methodology and philosophy of the social and sciences and the decision sciences.
Applications to various problems in management and organization science, economics and finance, systems analysis and artificial intelligence will be welcome, as long as they are of sufficiently general interest. Thus, the design of computersupported systems of actual decision-making processes will be a relevant subject for the journal, whether pertaining to individual, group, collective or negotiatory approaches; to private decisions or public policy; to current decisions or strategic planning.
Online Manuscript Submission
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First Page
The first page of the manuscript should contain the author¡®s name, article title and if necessary a running head (condensed title) which should not exceed 45 characters, including spaces. Each page of the manuscript should be consecutively numbered, including pages of references and captions. The author¡®s affiliation should appear at the endof the article; the full address should be given, including phone and fax number, and if available e-mail address.
Abstract and Key Words
Include an Abstract of 100-200 words.
Give 5-10 Keywords.
Symbols
Unusual symbols should be identified in the margin, and an alternative or equivalent symbol or sign should be provided if the one required is rare. Special care should be taken to distinguish between the letter O and zero, the letter l and
the number one, kappa and k, mu and u,nu and v, eta and n. Subscripts and superscripts should be marked if not clear. The use of italics is to be indicated by single underlining; bold-face by wavy underlining.
Notes
Notes which do not belong to the head of the article should be numbered consecutively. They should be placed at the end of the article, before the references, not as footnotes. A note which refers to the head of the article should be indicated by an asterisk. Notes should be kept to an absolute minimum.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements and grant number should be placed at the end after the text, before Notes and References.
Tables and Figures
Tables should be mentioned in the text and should be numbered consecutively with Arabic number, followed by a title. Only horizontal rules should be indicated. Table footnotes should be marked with superscript letter (a, b, etc.), if only one, an asterix (*) may be used.
Give a detailed caption to each figure, refer to it in the text and note the approximate location in the margin. Collect all captions on a separate sheet or sheets. Line drawings should be in Indian ink on white or tracing paper at roughly twice or three times the desired scale. Only originals, or if unavailable, first class photocopies are acceptable. Figures which are not reproducible may hold up publication until new figures are obtained. Please indicate the author¡®s name, the figure number and its top in blue pencil on the back of each illustration.References
References should be listed at the end of the article in alphabetical and chronological order. A journal reference should comprise name(s),initial(s), year of publication, full title of paper, name of journal(italic/underlined), volume number, issue number, and first and last pages in the following style:
Maher, P.: (1987), Causality in the logic of decision, Theory and Decision22(2): 155-172.
A book reference should comprise name(s), initial(s), year, full title (underlined), publisher and place of publication in the following style:
Arrow, K. J. and Raynaud, H.: (1986), Social Choice and Multi criterion Decision-Making. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
In the text, references to an article by more than two authors should be by the first name and ¡®et al.¡®; but all the authors names should be given in the References section.
Proofs
The author will receive two first proofs in page form from the publisher along with an annotated copy of the manuscript and is requested to return one corrected proof with the manuscript to the publisher without delay. In those cases where proofs are not returned promptly, they will be read by the executive editor against the second manuscript copy and returned to the publisher without the authors comments. Second proofs will be read only by the publisher to ensure that corrections have been made as noted by the author. Care should be taken to ensure that all contributions are typographically correct. A few corrections to the text are acceptable, but authors may expect to be charged for the cost of making extensive alterations to the text and/or illustrations once in proof.
Offprints
The author will receive, without charge, 25 offprints of the article. Additional offprints may be ordered when the proofs are returned to the publisher.
Page Charges
No page charges are levied on authors or their institutions.
Copyright
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Editorial Board
Honorary Board Members:
G.L. Eberlein;
W. Kroeber-Riel;
W. Leinfellner;
A.C. Michalos;
B.R. Munier
Editor-in-Chief:
Mohammed Abdellaoui
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
Board of Coordinating Editors:
F. Bloch, Jouy-en-Josas;
H. Bleichrodt, Rotterdam;
J. Eichberger, Heidelberg;
J.-Y. Jaffray, Paris;
E. Karni, Baltimore;
D.M. Kilgour, Waterloo, ON;
M. Machina, San Diego;
R.F. Nau, Durham;
J. Oechssler, Heidelberg;
E. Picavet, Paris;
M. Pirlot, Mons;
A.M. Riedl, Amsterdam;
B. Sopher, New Brunswick;
J.-M Tallon, Paris;
P.P. Wakker, Amsterdam;
G. Wu, Chicago;
L. Xue, Montreal;
M. Zeelenberg, Tilburg
Board of Consulting Editors:
M. Allais, Paris; D. Bouyssou, Paris; S.J. Brams, New York; M. Bunge, Montreal; D. Davidson, Berkeley; J. Elster, Chicago; P.C. Fishburn, Murray Hill; P. Korhonen, Helsinki; H. Lenk, Karlsruhe; J. Lesourne, Paris; I. Levi, New York; R.D. Luce, Irvine, CA; Ph. Mongin, Paris; A. Montesano, Milan; J.P. Ponssard, Paris; A. Rapoport, Toronto; P. Rawling, St. Louis; J¨¹rgen Rekus, Karlsruhe; B. Roy, Paris; U. Schmidt, Hannover A. Sen, Cambridge, MA; M.F. Shakun, New York; H. Skala, Paderborn; B. Skyrms, Irvine; R. Sugden, Norwich; P. Suppes, Stanford; Ph. Vincke, Brussels; M. Weber, Kiel
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