3 articles in this issue
R.C. Van den Honert
Integer programming is used to test the nutritional completeness of two fast-food chains operating in South Africa. McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken. It is shown that a fully nutritional and varied daily diet can be made up from McDonald's menu items... see more
F. Beichelt
Reliability work occupies an increasingly important place in engineering practice. Although the details differ depending on whether mechanical, electrical, chemical, or other systems are under analysis, the reliability concepts and the mathematical founda... see more
Practical applications of stochastic maintenance models frequently fail due to insufficient information on the lifetime distribution of the systems. Moreover, the structure of numerous maintenance policies which have been proposed up till now is so compli... see more