A current trend in corporate information systems is the increasing use of the Internet for marketing, intranets for internal communication, and extranets for logistics and distribution

_______ is keeping costs low enough to achieve profits while pricing products at levels that are attractive to consumers.

A. Price control B. Margin maximization C. Total quality control D. Cost competitiveness E. Workforce efficiency

Table 10-3 presents an integer programming problem. Suppose you wish to add a constraint that stipulates that both alternative 2 and alternative 3 must be selected, or neither can be selected. How would this constraint be written?

A) X2 = X3 B) X2 ? X3 C) X2 ? X3 D) X2 + X3 = 1 E) None of the above