7 Final News Herbert Simon Award Final Paper


IJAHP News: AHP Paper on the Possibility of Group Welfare Functions Wins Herbert 
Simon Award 

 

 

International Journal of the 
Analytic Hierarchy Process             

 
87 
 

Vol. 4 Issue 1 2012   
ISSN 1936-6744 

 

AHP PAPER ON THE POSSIBILITY OF GROUP WELFARE 
FUNCTIONS WINS HERBERT SIMON AWARD 

 

Warm congratulations to Luis Vargas (top) 
and Thomas Saaty who won the 2011 Herbert 
Simon Award for Outstanding Contribution 
in Information Technology and Decision 
Making for their paper “THE POSSIBILITY 
OF GROUP WELFARE FUNCTIONS” 
published in the International Journal of 
Information Technology & Decision Making 
(IJITDM), 2005, vol. 04, issue 02, pages 167-
176. The paper was ranked the first in overall 
score. IJITDM formally announced this news 

in its Vol. 11, Issue 1 (Jan. 2012). This year, the award committee evaluated 30 papers 
that were published in IJITDM during 2002-2010 for the award according to the 
following criteria:  

 

1. Significance of the paper to 
the field of Information 
Technology Decision Making; 

2. The extent to which the paper 
is interesting; 

3. Records of academic citations; 
4. Theoretical contribution to 

ITDM; 
5. Use of appropriate 

methodological rigor; 
6. Clarity of writing and/or 

presentation 
 

IJITDM has a new ISI Web of Knowledge Impact Factor of 3.139, ranking of 7th out 
of 108 in the categories of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, 5th out of 126 
in Computer Science and Information Systems, 7th out of 97 in Computer Science and 
Interdisciplinary Application, and 3rd out of 74 in Operations Research & Management 
Science. 

 

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