The Charme product from Compagnie des Machines Bull SA launched on the Japanese market earlier this year by the ISAX software subsidiary of Sekisui Chemical Co was developed by Bull from work on the CHIP restrictive logic language developed at the European Computer Research Centre in Munich founded jointly by Bull, ICL Plc and Siemens AG: the artificial intelligence tool can solve scheduling, timetable, delivery and delivery manpower planning problems, and it costs $15,500, half price for academic institutions, and ISAC is hoping to sell 10 copies of it this year.
