From the Editor…

This issue marks the beginning of my term as Editor-in-Chief of Decision Analysis. Founding Editors-in-Chief Bob Clemen and Don Kleinmuntz guided us well through the first three years of publication. Beginning now, with our fourth volume, I am introducing a new structure with associate editors and a managing editor. Combined with our existing editorial board, this structure will allow us to better serve the diverse decision analysis community and will position us to manage the growth of our journal. This issue features articles by Hazen on the addition of life goals to health preference models, by Abbas on invariant utility functions, and by van Binsbergen and Marx on relationships between decision analysis and game theory. Also, Hurley analyzes the wisdom of the United States Ryder Cup Captain Curtis Strange’s decision to place the top golfers in the last matches of the team golf event.