The 10th anniversary special issue

More than ten years ago, two colleagues and I developed an idea for a new journal that promised, as we stated in the preface of the first issue, “to bring together three main areas of applied mathematics, namely, classical applied mathematics, applied statistics, and operations research.” We believe that we have succeeded in our goal as is evident in over 170 articles spanning such areas as biofuel production, dynamics growth games, convex and nonconvex optimization, robustness of sample correlation, global optimization, dynamical system modeling, decision support system, and much more. Although the initial focus of this journal was to fill the gap in applied mathematics and decision sciences research that existed in New Zealand, the journal quickly grew to become an international journal with over thirty editors across the globe. In our first issue, we also promised our readers and potential contributors that the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences (JAMDS) would “appeal to practitioners as well as theoreticians with carefully reviewed articles, be inexpensively priced, and be published rapidly.” Today, we continue striving to satisfy all these goals. Every article that appeared in our journal has been diligently reviewed by two or more referees, followed by a careful examination by the editor in charge, and depending on the nature of the article, a final review by an area editor or the editor-in-chief. We continue to be a leader in our response time to authors and though our journal has been reasonably priced throughout its life, as of this year, we have made the journal available at no cost to the readers through a novel business model called Open Access Program. To celebrate a decade of successful publications and our association with a new publisher, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, we have devoted this special issue to the current