Presents an application of an expert system in the commodities market. The system is designed to facilitate decision making with regard to when to buy and sell. This system has several attractive features which make it very appealing to users without much computer background. Executives of large...

A heuristic algorithm, designed for freeze‐drying operations in the food processing industry, is developed for a multistage system with parallel machines and resource constraints. The system is extremely complex owing to factors such as stage capacities, resource constraints and requirements,...