This survey article (which will appear as a chapter in the book “Computer Algebra in Quantum Field Theory: Integration, Summation and Special Functions”, Springer-Verlag) provides a small collection of basic material on multiple hypergeometric series of Appell-type and of more general series of related type.

HYPERDIRE is a project devoted to the creation of a set of Mathematica based programs for the differential reduction of hypergeometric functions. The current version includes two parts: the first one, FdFunction, for manipulations with Appell hypergeometric functions FD of r variables; and the second one, FsFunction, for manipulations with Lauricella-Saran hypergeometric functions FS of three v...