决策分析协会促进了逻辑方法的发展和使用，以改善公共和私营企业的决策。这样的方法包括在不确定性或多个目标条件下决策的模型；风险分析和风险评估的技术；决策行为的实验和描述性研究；竞争和战略决策的经济分析；促进小组决策的技术；以及用于决策支持的计算机建模软件和专家系统。我们的成员包括具有工程，商业，经济学，统计，心理学以及其他社会和应用科学背景背景的从业者，教育工作者和研究人员。
决策分析社会的细分INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. INFORMS is the world's largest organization of operations researchers and management scientists, with over 12,000 members. The Decision Analysis Society is among the largest of INFORMS' subdivisions, with more than 1000 members.
The Decision Analysis Society was founded in 1980 as the ORSA Special Interest Group on Decision Analysis, becoming the INFORMS Section on Decision Analysis upon the merger of ORSA with TIMS. In February 1996, the Section on Decision Analysis became the Decision Analysis Society.