Risk and Decision Analysis


SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
COPYRIGHT
PROOFS & PURCHASES


SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Submit to: One of the Editorial Board members listed below (click on the name for the email address). The topic of your paper should correspond with the area of expertise of the board member.


Editors-in-Chief

Alain Bensoussan
School of Management
University of Texas at Dallas
Box 830688
Richardson, Texas 75083-0688
USA

Charles Tapiero
Deparment of Finance and Risk Engineering
Polytechnic University of New York
6 Metro Tech Center
Brooklyn, New York 11201
USA


Board member Affiliation Area(s) of expertise
Edward Altman New York University
USA
  • Bankruptcy
  • Credit risk
  • Debt markets
  • John Bailleul Boston University
    USA
  • Risk-based strategies in dynamic games
  • Risk associated with complex dynamics
  • Failure-tolerant control strategies
  • Alain Bensoussan University of Texas at Dallas
    USA
  • Stochastic Control
  • Variational and Quasi Variational Inequlities
  • Optimization
  • Estimation and Filtering
  • Metin Çakanyildirim University of Texas at Dallas
    USA
  • Supply Chain Risk and Information Security
  • Rama Cont Columbia University
    USA
  • Stochastic modeling
  • Computational methods in finance
  • Mathematical finance
  • Model uncertainty
  • Robert Cooper Florida Atlantic University
    USA
  • Queuing theory
  • Rachel Croson University of Texas at Dallas
    USA
  • Experimental and Behavioral Economics
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Bargaining and Negotiation
  • Gambling Activities
  • Michel Crouhy IXIS Securities
    France
    Risk management:
  • Market risk
  • Credit risk and economic capital allocation
  • Credit risk derivatives
  • Credit structured products
  • Tyrone Duncan University of Kansas
    USA
  • Stochastic methods
  • Stochastic analysis of risk
  • Stochastic modeling
  • Dan Galai The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Israel
  • Risk management in banks and non-banks corporations
  • Credit risk assessment
  • Helyette Geman School of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics
    United Kingdom
    Paul R. Kleindorfer University of Pennsylvania
    USA
  • In supply chain contracting
  • Catastrophe risk
  • Commodity derivatives
  • Environmental risk
  • Jean-Michel Lasry Université Paris IX-Dauphine
    France
  • Financial risk control
  • Catastrophe risk
  • Capital management
  • Stochastic control
  • Stochastic games and related PDEs
  • John Liu The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Hong Kong
  • Logistics and Maritime Studies
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Efficiency Assessment
  • Insurance and Contingent Opertions
  • Hybrid Diffusion
  • Systems
  • Computational QVI (Quasi-variational-inequalities)
  • Jean-Hervé Lorenzi Cie Financière Edmond de Rothschild
    France
  • Système de régulation des risques au niveau des entreprises (banques et assurances) et des organismes de contrôle
  • Ely Merzbach Bar Ilan University
    Israel
  • Probability theory
  • Stochastic processes
  • Stochastic models
  • Martingale theory
  • Point processes
  • Bertrand Munier GRID-CNRS, ESTP-ENSA
    France
  • Industrial risk modeling
  • Operational risk in all kinds of businesses and corporations
  • Agricultural markets risk modeling
  • Risk governance in private and public organizations
  • Decision analysis broadly defined
  • Mihai Nadin University of Texas at Dallas
    USA
  • Anticipation and Risk
  • Environmental and Social issues
  • Shmuel S. Oren University of California at Berkeley
    USA
  • Management of energy related risk and the application of financial methods and market mechanisms to energy related decisions: The development of hedging strategies for energy risk and the pricing of energy derivatives and energy contracts
  • The use of real option methods for valuing energy assets and for analyzing investment strategies in the energy sector
  • Design and applications of auctions in energy markets
  • George Papanicolaou Stanford University
    USA
  • Pricing and analyzing credit derivatives
  • Bozenna Pasik-Duncan University of Kansas
    USA
  • Stochastic adaptive control  and probability
  • Statistics
  • Stochastic modeling
  • Financial mathematics
  • Insurance
  • System identification
  • Estimation and learning
  • Applications of stochastic theory
  • Adaptive control to actuarial sciences
  • Elisabeth Pate-Cornell Stanford University
    USA
  • Risk analysis
  • Engineering systems and decision analysis with recent applications to space systems
  • Medical devices and procedures
  • National security problems
  • Michael L. Pinedo NYU Stern School of Business
    USA
    Olivier P. Pironneau Université Paris VI
    France
  • Option pricing
  • Calibration
  • Modelling with partial differential equations
  • Numerical solutions
  • Sumit Sarkar University of Texas at Dallas
    USA
  • Information systems
  • Operational risks as they arise from the use of information technology
  • Ayme Scannavino Université de Paris 2
    France
  • International finance Macroeconomics
  • Mathematical Finance
  • Econometrics
  • Algebra
  • Suresh P. Sethi University of Texas at Dallas
    USA
  • Inventory and supply chain management
  • Nessim Taleb c/o Chantal Delabarre
  • Risk of Derivatives
  • Charles Tapiero Polytechnic University of New York
    USA
    Pierre Vallois Université Henri Poincaré Nancy I
    France
  • Brownian motion
  • Diffusions processes
  • Special processes ( Bessel, Lévy and so on)
  • Random walks
  • Markov chains and related sequences


  • Please contact Chantal Delabarre for (editorial) questions and/or remarks. In case you have difficulties to link the topic of your paper to the area(s) of expertise of one of the Editorial Board members, please submit your paper to:
    c/o Chantal Delabarre
    CNES - Centre de Toulouse
    DCE/CP - BPI 2011
    18 Avenue Edouard Belin
    31401 Toulouse cedex 9 -
    France
    Phone: +33 (0)5 61 28 23 16
    Email: rda.delabarre@gmail.com

    Required files
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    - a word processor file of the text, such as Word, WordPerfect, LateX (If using LaTeX, please use the standard article.sty as a style file and also send a pdf version of the LaTeX file)
    - separate files of all figures (if any); see "Preparation of manuscripts" for the required file formats.

    Colour figures
    It is possible to have figures printed in colour, provided the cost of their reproduction is paid for by the author. See Preparation of Manuscripts for the required file formats.

    PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
    Organization of the paper and style of presentation
    Manuscripts must be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are advised to seek the advice of a native English speaker, before submitting their manuscripts.

    You can also visit www.internationalscienceediting.com. International Science Editing offers a language and copyediting service to all scientists who want to publish their manuscript in scientific peer-reviewed periodicals and books.

    Manuscripts should be prepared with wide margins and double spacing throughout, including the abstract, footnotes and references. Every page of the manuscript, including the title page, references, tables, etc., should be numbered. However, in the text no reference should be made to page numbers; if necessary, one may refer to sections. Try to avoid the excessive use of italics and bold face.

    Manuscripts should be organized in the following order:
  • Title page
  • Body of text (divided by subheadings)
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Tables
  • Figure captions
  • Figures
  • Headings and subheadings should be numbered and typed on a separate line, without indentation.

    SI units should be used, i.e., the units based on the metre, kilogramme, second, etc.

    Title page
    The title page should provide the following information:
  • Title (should be clear, descriptive and not too long)
  • Name(s) of author(s); please indicate who is the corresponding author
  • Full affiliation(s)
  • Present address of author(s), if different from affiliation
  • Complete address of corresponding author, including tel. no., fax no. and e-mail address
  • Abstract; should be clear, descriptive, self-explanatory and not longer than 200 words, it should also be suitable for publication in abstracting services
  • Keywords
  • Tables
    Number as Table 1, Table 2 etc, and refer to all of them in the text.

    Each table should be provided on a separate page of the manuscript. Tables should not be included in the text.

    Each table should have a brief and self-explanatory title.

    Column headings should be brief, but sufficiently explanatory. Standard abbreviations of units of measurement should be added between parentheses.

    Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Leave some extra space between the columns instead.

    Any explanations essential to the understanding of the table should be given in footnotes at the bottom of the table.

    Figures

    Number figures as Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc and refer to all of them in the text.

    Each figure should be provided on a separate sheet. Figures should not be included in the text.

    Colour figures can be included, provided the cost of their reproduction is paid for by the author.

    For the file formats of the figures please take the following into account:

  • Line art should be have a minimum resolution of 600 dpi, save as EPS or TIFF
  • Grayscales (incl photos) should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi (no lettering), or 500 dpi (when there is lettering); save as tiff
  • Do not save figures as JPEG, this format may lose information in the process
  • Do not use figures taken from the Internet, the resolution will be too low for printing
  • Do not use colour in your figures if they are to be printed in black & white, as this will reduce the print quality (note that in software often the default is colour, you should change the settings)
  • For figures that should be printed in colour, please send a CMYK encoded EPS or TIFF
  • Figures should be designed with the format of the page of the journal in mind. They should be of such a size as to allow a reduction of 50%.

    On maps and other figures where a scale is needed, use bar scales rather than numerical ones, i.e., do not use scales of the type 1:10,000. This avoids problems if the figures need to be reduced.

    Each figure should have a self-explanatory caption. The captions to all figures should be typed on a separate sheet of the manuscript.

    Photographs are only acceptable if they have good contrast and intensity.


    REFERENCES
    For citations in the text, numbers between square brackets should be used. All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references following the text of the manuscript.
    References should be listed alphabetically in the following style:
    [1] B. Newman and E.T. Liu, Perspective on BRCA1, Breast Disease 10 (1998), 3-10.
    [2] D.F. Pilkey, Happy conservation laws, in: Neural Stresses, J. Frost, ed., Controlled Press, Georgia, 1995, pp. 332-391.
    [3] E. Wilson, Active vibration analysis of thin-walled beams, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1991.

    Footnotes
    Footnotes should only be used if absolutely essential. In most cases it is possible to incorporate the information in the text.
  • If used, they should be numbered in the text, indicated by superscript numbers and kept as short as possible.

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