Title

22ND ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ISSUE OF ADVANCES IN DECISION SCIENCES (ADS), 1997-2018

Authors

• Michael McAleer (Department of Finance, Asia University, Taiwan)

Abstract

Decision Sciences is a multidisciplinary area that is concerned with advancingknowledge and improving instruction in all areas related to decision making and scientific analysis in several cognate disciplines in both the Sciences and Social Sciences. This paper is concerned with an editorial statement of intent for Advances in Decision Sciences (ADS), which was founded in 1997, so that 2018 marks the 22nd Anniversary of the journal. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the development of 382 papers that have been published in ADS from 1997 to 2018 through the number of papers, number of pages, and mean length of papers.

Keywords

Decision making, decision sciences, descriptive statistics, number of papers, number of pages, mean length of papers

Classification-JEL

C44, D81, D91, G11, G41, M51

Pages

1-12

[18 ARTICLES]

• * Michael McAleer: “22nd Anniversary Special Issue of Advances in Decision Sciences (ADS), 1997-2018” (12 pages)
• Chia-Lin Chang, * Michael McAleer, and Wing-Keung Wong: “Editorial Statement of Intent for Advances in Decision Sciences (ADS): 22nd Anniversary Special Issue in 2018” (10 pages)
• Chia-Lin Chang, * Michael McAleer, and Wing-Keung Wong: “Research Ideas for Advances in Decision Sciences (ADS): 22nd Anniversary Special Issue in 2018” (12 pages)
• Chia-Lin Chang, * Michael McAleer, and Wing-Keung Wong: “Decision Sciences, Economics, Finance, Business, Computing, and Big Data: Connections” (58 pages)
• Nikolaos Antonakakis, Mehmet Balcilar, Elie Bouri, and * Rangan Gupta: “Is Wine a Safe-Haven? Evidence from a Nonparametric Causality-in-Quantiles Test” (19 pages)
• Hyeok Yong Kwon, * Hang Keun Ryu, and Daniel J. Slottje: “A New Perspective on the Diffusion of Global Democracy” (21 pages)
• * Jun Cai, Yiyi Qin, and Anxing Wang: “Earnings, Mergers and Acquisitions Under Pension Disclosure Standards” (42 pages)
• David E. Allen, * Michael McAleer, and David McHardy Reid: “Fake News and Indifference to Truth: Dissecting Tweets and State of the Union Addresses by Presidents Obama and Trump” (23 pages)
• Wendy Nyakabawo, * Rangan Gupta, and Hardik A. Marfatia: “High Frequency Impact of Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Surprises on US MSAs, Aggregate US Housing Returns and Asymmetric Volatility” (25 pages)
• Jan Dvorsky, * József Popp, Zuzana Virglerova, Sándor Kovács, and Judit Oláh: “Assessing the Importance of Market Risk and its Sources in SMEs of the Visegrad Group and Serbia” (25 pages)
• *Shigeyuki Hamori and Takahiro Kume: “Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth” (22 pages)
• Jingchen Ren and *Xu Guo: “A Three-arm Non-inferiority Test for Heteroscedastic Data” (28 pages)
• * Philip Hans Franses, “Prediction Intervals for Expert-Adjusted Forecasts” (12 pages)
• * Aviral Kumar Tiwari and Naseem Ahamed, “Executive Tenure and Firm Performance: An Empirical Examination of the Indian Corporate Landscape” (29 pages)
• * Clement A. Tisdell, “Diversity in Economic Decision-making and Behaviour: A New Brief Review” (17 pages)
• * Mike K.P. So , Wing Ki Liu and Amanda M.Y. Chu, “Bayesian Shrinkage Estimation of Time-varying Covariance Matrices in Financial Time Series” (35 pages)
• * Jukka Ilomäki and Hannu Laurila, “The Noise Trader Effect in a Walrasian Financial Market” (14 pages)
• S.A. Bond, Q. Chang, J. Knight and * S.E. Satchell, “Joint Distribution of Forecasts and Outcomes: Impact of Non-Normality on the Measurement of Forecasting Skill, with Applications to Analysts’ Target Prices” (39 pages)

[13 ARTICLES]

• Classroom note: An inductive derivation of Stirling numbers of the second kind and their applications in statistics, Anwar H. Joarder and Munir Mahmood 
  Volume 1 (1997), Issue 2, Pages 151-157
• Combination trading with limit orders, Henry Schellhorn 
  Volume 1 (1997), Issue 2, Pages 133-150
• On the significance level of the multirelation coefficient, Roger Dear and Zvi Drezner 
  Volume 1 (1997), Issue 2, Pages 119-130
• The recurrent event process of a success preceded by a failure and its application, C. D. Lai 
  Volume 1 (1997), Issue 2, Pages 101-117
• A statistical comparison of accelerated concrete testing methods, Denny Meyer 
  Volume 1 (1997), Issue 2, Pages 89-100
• Limit policies in N-sector dynamic growth games with externalities, Ronald D. Fischer and Leonard J. Mirman 
  Volume 1 (1997), Issue 2, Pages 81-87
• Software review: A review of Minitab – Release 11, Siva Ganesh 
  Volume 1 (1997), Issue 1, Pages 73-78
• Classroom note: Radioactivity half-lives considered as data, T. P. Hutchinson 
  Volume 1 (1997), Issue 1, Pages 67-71
• Maximum likelihood estimates with order restrictions on probabilities and odds ratios: A geometric programming approach, D. L. Bricker, K. O. Kortanek, and L. Xu 
  Volume 1 (1997), Issue 1, Pages 53-65
• Effect of prior probabilities on the classificatory performance of parametric and mathematical programming approaches to the two-group discriminant problem, Constantine Loucopoulos 
  Volume 1 (1997), Issue 1, Pages 45-51
• Dynamical systems modelling of the interactions of animal stocking density and soil fertility in grazed pasture, I. D. Wickham, G. C. Wake, S. J. R. Woodward, and B. S. Thorrold 
  Volume 1 (1997), Issue 1, Pages 27-43
• Extensions to the Kruskal-Wallis test and a generalised median test with extensions, J. C. W. Rayner and D. J. Best 
  Volume 1 (1997), Issue 1, Pages 13-25
• Single retrial queues with service option on arrival, K. Farahmand and N. Cooke 
  Volume 1 (1997), Issue 1, Pages 5-12

[12 ARTICLES]

• Classroom Note: A note on calculating steady state results for an M/M/k queuing system when the ratio of the arrival rate to the service rate is large, Barry Alan Pasternack and Zvi Drezner 
  Volume 2 (1998), Issue 2, Pages 201-203
• Technical Note: An investigation of chaos in the RL-diode circuit using the BDS test, R. Kasap and E. Kurt
  Volume 2 (1998), Issue 2, Pages 193-199
• A generalization of the convex-hull-and-line traveling salesman problem, Md. Fazle Baki and S. N. Kabadi
  Volume 2 (1998), Issue 2, Pages 177-191
• Multi-class decision procedures for the inspection operation, Majid Jaraiedi, Richard S. Segall, and Venkatramani Rajamohan 
  Volume 2 (1998), Issue 2, Pages 159-175
• On the equiponderate equation  and a representation of weight quadruplets, Bernard de Baets and Hans de Meyer 
  Volume 2 (1998), Issue 2, Pages 147-158
• On selecting the most reliable components, Dylan Shi 
  Volume 2 (1998), Issue 2, Pages 133-145
• Admission controls for Erlang’s loss system with service times distributed as a finite sum of exponential random variables, Brian Moretta and Ilze Ziedins 
  Volume 2 (1998), Issue 2, Pages 119-132
• The predictive distribution in decision theory: a case study, Geoff Jones 
  Volume 2 (1998), Issue 2, Pages 107-117
• Managing cost uncertainties in transportation and assignment problems, V. Adlakha and H. Arsham 
  Volume 2 (1998), Issue 1, Pages 65-104
• Sampling size and efficiency bias in data envelopment analysis, Mohammad R. Alirezaee, Murray Howland, and Cornelis van de Panne 
  Volume 2 (1998), Issue 1, Pages 51-64
• A decision support system for regional hazardous waste management alternatives, Mahyar A. Amouzegar and Stephen E. Jacobsen 
  Volume 2 (1998), Issue 1, Pages 23-50
• Optimal investment strategies for renewable facilities, Joe Flood 
  Volume 2 (1998), Issue 1, Pages 3-21

[12 ARTICLES]

• Strategic staffing model for electric utilities, M. Sami Khawaja 
  Volume 3 (1999), Issue 2, Pages 195-202
• Classroom Note: Numerical solutions of Nagumo’s equation, M. Iqbal 
  Volume 3 (1999), Issue 2, Pages 189-193
• On the heat impulse method for deducing sap flow, Ron Gribben 
  Volume 3 (1999), Issue 2, Pages 171-187
• The videotape rental model, Barry A. Pasternack and Zvi Drezner 
  Volume 3 (1999), Issue 2, Pages 163-170
• Global properties of the three-dimensional predator-prey Lotka-Volterra systems, A. Korobeinikov and G. C. Wake 
  Volume 3 (1999), Issue 2, Pages 155-162
• Nonparametric tests for data in randomised blocks with Ordered alternatives, J. C. W. Rayner and D. J. Best 
  Volume 3 (1999), Issue 2, Pages 143-153
• Robust insurance mechanisms and the shadow prices of information constraints, I. V. Evstigneev, W. K. Klein Haneveld, and L. J. Mirman 
  Volume 3 (1999), Issue 1, Pages 85-128
• On a queue with correlated arrivals, Zvi Drezner 
  Volume 3 (1999), Issue 1, Pages 75-84
• Some applications of occupation times of Brownian motion with drift in mathematical finance, Andreas Pechtl 
  Volume 3 (1999), Issue 1, Pages 63-73
• Distributions of occupation times of Brownian motion with drift, Andreas Pechtl 
  Volume 3 (1999), Issue 1, Pages 41-62
• A practical procedure for estimation of linear models via asymptotic quasi-likelihood, Riccardo Biondini, Yan-Xia Lin, and Sifa Mvoi 
  Volume 3 (1999), Issue 1, Pages 21-39
• Robustness of the sample correlation – the bivariate lognormal case, C. D. Lai, J. C. W. Rayner, and T. P. Hutchinson 
  Volume 3 (1999), Issue 1, Pages 7-19

[15 ARTICLES]

• Variational methods for boundary value problems, B. Tsang, S. W. Taylor, and G. C. Wake 
  Volume 4 (2000), Issue 2, Pages 193-204
• High order explicit Runge-Kutta pairs for ephemerides of the Solar System and the Moon, Philip W. Sharp
  Volume 4 (2000), Issue 2, Pages 183-192
• Can we prevent the next epidemic? The elimination of childhood diseases by mass vaccination, M. G. Roberts 
  Volume 4 (2000), Issue 2, Pages 175-182
• Modelling fluid flow and heat transfer in a saturated porous medium, D. A. Nield 
  Volume 4 (2000), Issue 2, Pages 165-173
• Comparison theorems for multicomponent diffusion systems: developments since 1961, M. I. Nelson 
  Volume 4 (2000), Issue 2, Pages 151-163
• On order  symplectic explicit Runge-Kutta Nyström methods, Lin-Yi Chou and P. W. Sharp 
  Volume 4 (2000), Issue 2, Pages 143-150
• Mean action time for diffusive processes, Kerry Landman and Mark Mcguinness 
  Volume 4 (2000), Issue 2, Pages 125-141
• Numerical simulation of the oscillations of non-newtonian viscous fluids with a free surface, A. Korobeinikov 
  Volume 4 (2000), Issue 2, Pages 111-123
• Flexible plate and foundation modelling, R. J. Hosking 
  Volume 4 (2000), Issue 2, Pages 103-110
• The McNabb symposium 7-8 February 2000 Auckland, New Zealand, John C. Butcher 
  Volume 4 (2000), Issue 2, Pages 99-101
• Analysis of singly ordered two-way contingency tables, J. C.W. Rayner and D. J. Best 
  Volume 4 (2000), Issue 1, Pages 83-98
• Robust estimation in Capital Asset Pricing Model, Wing-Keung Wong and Guorui Bian 
  Volume 4 (2000), Issue 1, Pages 65-82
• A coupling technique for stochastic comparison of functions of Markov Processes, M. Doisy 
  Volume 4 (2000), Issue 1, Pages 39-64
• Stratified filtered sampling in stochastic optimization, Robert Rush, John M. Mulvey, John E. Mitchell, and Thomas R. Willemain 
  Volume 4 (2000), Issue 1, Pages 17-38
• Construction of -variate distribution functions and applications to discrete decision models, Yadlin A. Marisa 
  Volume 4 (2000), Issue 1, Pages 7-16

[19 ARTICLES]

• Note on a comparative evaluation of nine well-known algorithms for solving the cell formation problem in group technology, Prafulla Joglekar, Q. B. Chung, and Madjid Tavana 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 4, Pages 253-268
• A statistical comparison of three goodness-of-fit criteria used in modelling distances, Robert F. Love and Halit Üster 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 4, Pages 235-251
• Financial applications of a Tabu search variable selection model, Zvi Drezner, George A. Marcoulides, and Mark Hoven Stohs 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 4, Pages 215-234
• Long-term global climate dynamics: A Hopf bifurcation causing recurrent ice ages, Andrei Korobeinikov and Alex Mcnabb 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 4, Pages 201-214
• Classroom note: Fourier method for Laplace transform inversion, M. Iqbal 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 3, Pages 193-200
• Power of the Neyman smooth tests for the uniform distribution, Glen D. Rayner and John C. W. Rayner 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 3, Pages 181-191
• Mathematical modelling of ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation, Larissa Ju Fradkin, Victor Zalipaev, and Dmitri Gridin 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 3, Pages 165-180
• Microwave assisted ignition to achieve combustion synthesis, E. Balakrishnan, M. I. Nelson, and X. D. Chen 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 3, Pages 151-164
• The joint determination of price, quality, and capacity: An application to supermarket operations, Jess S. Boronico and Alexandros Panayides 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 3, Pages 133-150
• A finite difference equivalent circuit approach to secondary current modelling in annular porous electrodes, T. W. Farrell, D. L. S. Mcelwain, and D. A. J. Swinkels 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 2, Pages 119-132
• Heat output from spreading and rifting models of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, Graham J. Weir 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 2, Pages 105-118
• Fluid velocity profile reconstruction for non-Newtonian shear dispersive flow, Paul R. Shorten and David J. N. Wall 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 2, Pages 87-104
• Weak formulation of free-surface wave equations, A. D. Sneyd 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 2, Pages 75-85
• Growing bubbles rising in line, John F. Harper 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 2, Pages 65-73
• The McNabb Symposium, 7-8 February 2000, Auckland, New Zealand, John C. Butcher 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 2, Pages 61-63
• Three different operations research models for the same  policy, Omar Ben-Ayed 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 1, Pages 47-59
• Confidence circles for correspondence analysis using orthogonal polynomials, Eric J. Beh 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 1, Pages 35-45
• The capacitated newsboy problem with revenue sharing, Barry A. Pasternack 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 1, Pages 21-33
• One sample tests for the location of modes of nonnormal data, Anthony M. Carolan and J. C. W. Rayner 
  Volume 5 (2001), Issue 1, Pages 1-19

[18 ARTICLES]

• Asymptotics for general nonstationary fractionally integrated processes without prehistoric influence, Qiying Wang, Yan-Xia Lin, and Chandra Gulati 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 4, Pages 255-269
• Components of the Pearson-Fisher chi-squared statistic, G. D. Raynery 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 4, Pages 241-254
• The effects of I(1) series on cointegration inference, Yan-Xia Lin and Michael Mccrae 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 4, Pages 229-240
• Estimating a resource selection function with line transect sampling, Bryan F. J. Manly 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 4, Pages 213-228
• Goodness-of-fit tests based on sample space partitions: a unifying overview, O. Thas and J. P. Ottoy 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 4, Pages 203-212
• Introductory remarks, John Rayner 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 4, Pages 201-202
• Optimum workforce scheduling under the (14, 21) days-off timetable, Hesham K. Alfares 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 3, Pages 191-199
• A simple proof of Suzumura’s extension theorem for finite domains with applications, Somdeb Lahiri 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 3, Pages 183-190
• Ignition Properties of Thermally Thin Plastics: The Effectiveness of Non-Competitive Char Formation in Reducing Flammability, M. I. Nelson, J. Brindley, and A. C. Mcintosh 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 3, Pages 155-181
• A new heuristic for the quadratic assignment problem, Zvi Drezner 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 3, Pages 143-153
• Analytical bootstrap methods for censored data, Alan D. Hutson 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 2, Pages 129-141
• The value of econometrics to economists in business and government: a study of the state of the discipline, Eric R. Sowey 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 2, Pages 101-127
• Expert rule versus majority rule under partial information, II, Daniel Berend and Luba Sapir 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 2, Pages 79-99
• A finite horizon production model with variable production rates and constant demand rate, Zvi Goldstein 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 2, Pages 71-78
• Hedging entry and exit decisions: activating and deactivating barrier options, Laurent Gauthier 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 1, Pages 51-70
• Calculation of steady-state probabilities of M/M queues: further approaches, David K. Smith 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 1, Pages 43-50
• An integrated selection formulation for the best normal mean: the unequal and unknown variance case, Pinyuen Chen and Jun-Lue Zhang 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 1, Pages 23-42
• Nonparametric statistical methods and the pricing of derivative securities, Rüdiger Kiesel 
  Volume 6 (2002), Issue 1, Pages 1-22

[20 ARTICLES]

• Recursive estimation of inventory quality classes using sampling, L. Aggoun, L. Benkherouf, and A. Benmerzouga 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 4, Pages 249-263
• A reduced load approximation accounting for link interactions in a loss network, M. R. Thompson and P. K. Pollett 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 4, Pages 229-248
• Genetic algorithm for network cost minimization using threshold based discounting, Hrvoje Podnar and Jadranka Skorin-Kapov 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 4, Pages 207-228
• Robustness to non-normality of common tests for the many-sample location problem, Azmeri Khan and Glen D. Rayner 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 4, Pages 187-206
• Polya tree distributions for statistical modeling of censored data, Andrew A. Neath 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 3, Pages 175-186
• Inequalities between hypergeometric tails, Mary C. Phipps 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 3, Pages 165-174
• A two-stage heat transfer model for the peripheral layers of a grain store, Alexsandar Antic and James M. Hill 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 3, Pages 147-164
• Some results of ruin probability for the classical risk process, He Yuanjiang, Li Xucheng, and John Zhang 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 3, Pages 133-146
• Considering ethnicity in teaching and learning statistics: should I worry about where my students come from?, Darfiana Nur and Kerrie Mengersen 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 2, Pages 123-131
• Supporting statistics in the workplace: experiences with two hospitals, M. Y. Mortlock, N. Spencer, and K. Mengersen 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 2, Pages 115-122
• Making statistics significant in a short course for graduates with widely-varying non-statistical backgrounds, H. L. Macgillivray 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 2, Pages 105-113
• Use of demonstrations and experiments in teaching business statistics, D. G. Johnson and J. A. John 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 2, Pages 93-103
• Electronic resources: the Ohio state university EESEE project, Petra L. Graham, William I. Notz, Dennis K. Pearl, and Elizabeth A. Stasny 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 2, Pages 85-92
• An international project for the development of data handling skills of teachers and pupils, Neville Davies, Doreen Connor, and Nancy Spencer 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 2, Pages 75-83
• From classroom to online teaching: experiences in improving statistics education, Anne Porter, David Griffiths, and John Hedberg 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 2, Pages 65-73
• Background, J. Rayner 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 2, Pages 61-63
• Discovery of functional and approximate functional dependencies in relational databases, Ronald S. King and James J. Legendre 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 1, Pages 49-59
• A case study of the residual-based cointegration procedure, Riccardo Biondini, Yan-Xia Lin, and Michael Mccrae 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 1, Pages 29-48
• Minimal waiting times in static traffic control, O. Moeschlin and C. Poppinga 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 1, Pages 11-28
• The theoretical basis of heat flux sensor pen, Xiao Dong Chen and Sing Kiong Nguang 
  Volume 7 (2003), Issue 1, Pages 1-10

[16 ARTICLES]

• An application of latent class random coefficient regression, Lars Erichsen and Per Bruun Brockhoff 
  Volume 8 (2004), Issue 4, Pages 247-260
• Robustness to non-normality of various tests for the one-sample location problem, Michelle K. McDougall and Glen D. Rayner 
  Volume 8 (2004), Issue 4, Pages 235-246
• Improving prediction of neural networks: a study of tow financial prediction tasks, Tarun K. Sen, Parviz Ghandforoush, and Charles T. Stivason 
  Volume 8 (2004), Issue 4, Pages 219-233
• The relationship between stock markets of major developed countries and Asian emerging markets, Wing-Keung Wong, Jack Penm, Richard Deane Terrell, and Karen Yann Ching Lim 
  Volume 8 (2004), Issue 4, Pages 201-218
• Duals for classical inventory models via generalized geometric programming, Carlton H. Scott, Thomas R. Jefferson, and Soheila Jorjani 
  Volume 8 (2004), Issue 3, Pages 191-200
• A wareness, belief, and communication reaching consensus, Emiko Fukuda, Takashi Matsuhisa, and Hisato Sasanuma 
  Volume 8 (2004), Issue 3, Pages 175-190
• Linear programs with an additional separable concave constraint, Takahito Kuno and Jianming Shi 
  Volume 8 (2004), Issue 3, Pages 155-174
• Variance reduction trends on ‘boosted’ classifiers, Virginia Wheway 
  Volume 8 (2004), Issue 3, Pages 141-154
• On the relationship between regression analysis and mathematical programming, Dong Qian Wang, Stefanka Chukova, and C. D. Lai 
  Volume 8 (2004), Issue 2, Pages 131-140
• On gradient simplex methods for linear programs, R. R. Vemuganti 
  Volume 8 (2004), Issue 2, Pages 107-129
• Comparison of efficient seasonal indexes, Peter T. Ittig 
  Volume 8 (2004), Issue 2, Pages 87-105
• A non-iterative alternative to ordinal Log-Linear models, Eric J. Beh and Pamela J. Davy 
  Volume 8 (2004), Issue 2, Pages 67-86
• Cross-national stability of a quality management model: a comparative study of the United States and Turkey, Burhan F. Yavas, Swinder Janda, and George A. Marcoulides 
  Volume 8 (2004), Issue 1, Pages 43-65
• Sample size for testing homogeneity of two a priori dependent binomial populations using the Bayesian approach, Athanassios Katsis 
  Volume 8 (2004), Issue 1, Pages 33-42
• SUR Models applied to an environmental situation with missing data and censored values, Ross Sparks 
  Volume 8 (2004), Issue 1, Pages 15-32
• Three ways to solve for bond prices in the Vasicek model, Rogemar S. Mamon 
  Volume 8 (2004), Issue 1, Pages 1-14