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Peter Fishburn

PETER C. FISHBURN is a member of tjie technical staff in the Mathematical Sciences Research Center of AT&T Bell Laboratories in MJurray Hill, New Jersey. He is the author of books in decision theory, social choice theory, and discrete mathematics, and has published many articles in technical journals. Dr Fishburn received his PHD in operations research from Case Institute of Technology Jn 1962.

Donald Wehrung

DONALD A. WEHRUNG is Associate Professor and Director of the MBA Program at the University of British Columbia. He holclsa PHD degree in business and a MS degree in operations research from Stanfcjrd University. His recent research has beeti in the areas of managerial risk, assessment of preferences, and multiple criteria decision making.

Kenneth Maccrimmon

KENNETH R. MACCRIMMON is the ED. MacPhee Professor of Management at the University of British Columbia. He has held the position of J.L. Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Decision at Northwestern University. Earlier he was on the faculty at Carnegie-Mellon University. His BS, MBA, and PHD degrees are in management science from UCLA. His recent research has been in the areas of risk assessment, utility theory, strategic planning, problem-solving strategies, ^nd experimental economics.

Kent Brothers

KENT M. BROTHERS is a partner in Stephenson Softward Ltd, North Vancouver, BC and a research associate in the Division of Heajth Systems at the University of British Columbia. He holds a PHD in Operations Research and Statistics from Rensselaer Polvteclinic Institute. His main area of interest is computational methodology in statistics and management information systems,

Herbert Moskowitz

HERBERT MOSKOWITZ is a Professor of Management and the pirector of Graduate Professional Programs in Management at the Krannert Graduate School of Management. Dr Moskowitz is the co-author oi" four texts and has published some fifty articles in the areas of decisicjn making, optimization, management science, and quality control iiji refereed academic journals. He is an associate editor of Decision Sciences and the Journal of Interdisciplinary Modeling and Simulation and has bedn a special associate editor of Management Science. He is a Fellow of thei American Institute for Decision Sciences and served as a vice-president and member of the executive board of this organization. He also holds positions with TIMS and ORSA, and is a member of the American Society for Quality Control Standards Council.

Jyrki Wallenius

JYRKI WALLENIUS is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Jyväskylä. Dr Wallenius served as the chairman of the Department of Economics and Management, University of Jyväskylä, 1982-'83, and is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Business Research Institute, University of Jyväskylä. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Management at the Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University, 1979–80. Dr. Wallenius has published several articles in the areas of multiple criteria optimization and decision making in Management Science and Operations Research, among others. He is an Editorial Associate ofthe European Journal of Operational Research and has served as a referee to several professional journals.

Carolyne Smart

CAROLYNE SMART is an Assistant Professor of Policy Analysis and Organizational Behaviour at Simon Fraser University. Dr Siinart's research interests focus on strategic management and decision making in the public and private sectors. Recent publications have examined how internal and external environments condition the strategic decisions of organizations.

Ilan Vertinsky

ILAN VERTINSKY is a Professor of Management Science, Policy Analysis and Resource Ecology at the University of British Columbia. Dr Vertinsky has published more than eighty papers in journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, Review of Economic Studies, and Animnl Ecology. He is the former CORS editor of INFOR.

Patricia Vertinsky

PATRICIA VERTINSKY is an Associate Professor of Education at the University of British Columbia. Dr Vertinsky has published extensively in the areas of risk communications, lifestyle management, and curricSulum theory.

Dan Laughhunn

DAN J. LAUGHHUNN is Professor of Business Administration, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706. He received a BS degree in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Illinois. His current research interests are in risk preference of martagers and strategic risk management. His publications have appeared in Management Science, Decision Sciences, Financial Management, and The Bell Journal of Economics. He is a member of AIDS and the Financial Management Association.

John Payne

JOHN W. PAYNE is Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Caroling 27706. He received his BA, MA, and PHD in Psychology from the University of California, Irvine. He has been an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing at the University of Chicago, and a PostDoctoral Fellow in Psychology at Carnegie-Mellon University. His research interests include risky choice behaviour, cognitive psychology, and the design of decision aids. His articles with Dan J. Laughhunn have been published in Management Science, Financial Management, and the Bell Journal of Economics.

John Cohen

JOHN COHEN was educated at University College, London (M4, PHD). He served in Royal Armoured Corps m World War II, then at the Offices of the War Cabinet under the Prime Minister. Academic appoijntments at the Universities of Leeds and London. Professor of Psychology at the University of Manchester, 1952-78. Consultant to UNESCO and other international bodies. Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and former rnember of Council. British editor of several international journals. Author of some twenty books (translated into many languages) and of about 350 papers in scientific, medical and other learned journals, national and international.

Ola Svenson

OLA SVENSON received his PHD in psychology from the Udiversity of Stockholm in 1971. Currently, he is a researcher appointbd by the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social S(iiences. He has conducted research in perception and psychophysical scaling, and his present basic research includes studies of cognitive processes in| judgment and decision making. The author has also worked for the Swedish Secretariat for Future Studies and a numljer of other offices, including the Road Safety Office, the Swedish Energy Research and Development Commission, and the Swedish Cobmission for Handling; of Spent Nuclear Fuel.