Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the usefulness of a heuristic expert system, to show its applicability to real‐world valuation problems, and to suggest several avenues for statistical testing. Design/methodology/approach – The expert systems follow a traditional sales...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the demand and supply relationship between urban and non‐urban land, the latter's diminishing supply, arguments for and against its preservation, methods in which preservation might be achieved and one method in particular, with which the...

The expansion of computer and information technology firms combined with the simultaneous decline in traditional manufacturing firms in the 1990s argues for a re‐examination of economic base models in light of changing basic sectors within the economy. This paper reviews the literature and...