Management Science Roundup

—“News: Proceedings of International Conference on Very Large Data Bases Available”;

—“Corporate Cash Management”;

—“From Mexico: Project Coin Mintage”.

—Seen elsewhere: (1) Railyard Modeling: Part I, Prediction of Put-through Time. Part II, The Effect of Yard Facilities on Congestion (Transportation Science}, Feb. 1977, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 37–59) by E. R. Peterson (Queen's University, Canada); (2) Using a Multi-nation Economic Model: Projection of Economic Relations between Japan and Developing Countries in Asia (1975–1985) (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 1977, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 121–142) by Akira Onishi (Soka University, Tokyo).