This year marks the 22nd Anniversary of Advances in Decision Sciences (ADS), which is listed in Scopus, since its establishment in 1997. To celebrate the anniversary, ADS will publish a single volume special issue, designated 22(A).

The significance of the number of pages per paper in 2018 as an outlier is that the ownership of ADS was transferred from the previous publisher to Asia University in early 2018. Subsequently, a new and talented editorial team was established (see http://journal.asia.edu.tw/ADS2/editorial-board/  ), which augurs well for the future of the journal.

ADS will continue to encourage researchers, academics, scientists, social scientists, advanced students, practitioners, and other interested individuals to undertake research in decision sciences, and consider the journal as an outlet for their research. This will also afford them the opportunity to be well informed of the latest innovations in the analysis of optimal decision making through developments in all technical and cognate disciplines of decision sciences.

lease find below the web page of the journal, Table of Contents for 22(A), and an updated version of papers for the special issue:

http://journal.asia.edu.tw/ADS/

http://journal.asia.edu.tw/ADS/category/table-of-contents-for-year-2018/

IETI President, IETI Distinguished Fellow, Prof. Dr. Michael McAleer, Asia University, Taiwan