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<div style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> FYI - the
March 2023 issue of Decision Analysis has now been
published. Check out the five papers in this issue, at
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Several of the papers in this issue analysis highlight the
contributions that industrial and system engineers have
made to decision analysis: <br>
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<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); font-size: 16px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); background-image: ; background-position-x: ; background-position-y: ; background-size: ; background-repeat-x: ; background-repeat-y: ; background-attachment: ; background-origin: ; background-clip: ; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; --artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize:1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight:1.5; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); cursor: text; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Multipolar Security Cooperation Planning: A Multiobjective, Adversarial-Risk-Analysis Approach," by William Caballero of the Air Force Academy, Jeffery Weir of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and coauthors, is useful in understanding the possible roles of diplomacy in achieving security. </p>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">Happy reading!</div>
<div class="moz-forward-container"> --Vicki Bier,
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