...Xiaoping Xu; Yugang Yu; Guowei Dou; Xiaomei Ruan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the operational decisions of a manufacturer who produces multiple products and the government's selection of cap-and-trade and carbon tax regulations. Design/methodology/approach This paper...

...Iain D. Craig Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Production Describes the ELEKTRA reflective production rule interpreter, which differs from other interpreters by providing considerable support for meta‐level inference and reflection. Also describes the representations employed in the system...

...A.G. Adeagbo‐Sheikh In the construction of Beer's Predictive Model for control of operations in “complex probabilistic systems” a major exercise is the adjustment of resources to meet current productivity values so as to stabilize overall system output. There arise, however, certain theoretical...