Distributed processing has been motivated by many objectives. Among these are a desire to share resources, reduce communications costs (as compared to a centralized processing scheme), increase performance and decrease response time by partitioning tasks and achieve higher system availability...

This paper explores rational decision making for investment in the stock market. The first part is concerned with problems of a methodological nature, mainly dealing with the relationship between normative models and operations research. The major part explores a particular model and the various...