An Independent System for the Evaluation of Contract Tenders
描述了英国煤炭公司采购合同的组织方式及招标评估需求，并介绍了一个名为INSECT的微电脑决策支持系统，该系统采用准优化程序而非线性规划来评估投标。
After a description of British Coal's method of organizing purchase contracts and consequent requirements for evaluating tenders, reference is made to the use of linear programming to allocate business. The later part of the paper describes the development and operation of a user-friendly, menu-driven microcomputer decision-support system for tender evaluation called INSECT, which uses a purpose-built, quasi-optimizing routine rather than linear programming.