2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/48550Next-to-leading order calculations for heavy quark three-jet production in e+e- annihilation are reviewed. Their applications for the measurement of the b-quark mass at LEP/SLC and for the test of flavour independence of the strong coupling constant are discussed.LaTeX, 5 pages, 6 figures, uses ltwol2e.sty Reference to Phys.Lett. B418(1998)430 is corrected. Contribution to the XXIX International Conference on High Energy Physics, (Vancouver, Canada, July 1998)High Energy Physics - PhenomenologyNLO calculations of the three-jet heavy quark production in e^+e^--annihilation: status and applicationstext