Production/distribution system design with inventory considerations

This study addresses the design of a three‐stage production/distribution system where the first stage includes the set of established retailers and the second and third stages include the sets of potential distribution centers (DCs) and potential capacitated suppliers, respectively. In this problem, in addition to the fixed location/operating costs associated with locating DCs and suppliers, we consider the coordinated inventory replenishment decisions at the located DCs and retailers along with the appropriate inventory costs explicitly. In particular, we account for the replenishment and holding costs at the retailers and selected DCs, and the fixed plus distance‐based transportation costs between the selected plants and their assigned DCs, and between the selected DCs and their respective retailers, explicitly. The resulting formulation is a challenging mixed‐integer nonlinear programming model for which we propose efficient heuristic solution approaches. Our computational results demonstrate the performance of the heuristic approaches as well as the value of integrated decision‐making by verifying that significant cost savings are realizable when the inventory decisions and costs are incorporated in the production distribution system design. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 59: 172–195, 2012     

典型航天装备试验鉴定总体策略研究

航天装备具有面向任务、科研性强、全系统的技术状态难以固定，以及小子样等特点，在全寿命周期内的试验策略与常规武器装备的差异很大。本文在介绍装备试验鉴定模式改革的基础上，分析了航天装备试验鉴定按照新模式进行的相应调整，重点给出了卫星系统、运载火箭和航天测控装备等典型航天装备的全寿命周期模型，设计了新体制下全寿命周期内的试验阶段和关键时间节点、主要试验类型、决策支持依据、试验方式方法，以及与原试验要求的继承关系等总体策略；同时，鉴于航天装备试验鉴定数据量小等特殊性，给出了有别于常规装备的数据采信原则。该试验鉴定总体策略和数据采信原则可为航天装备试验鉴定顶层设计、组织实施、数据分析和决策支持提供参考。     

Optimizing usage and maintenance decisions for k‐out‐of‐n systems of moving assets

We consider an integrated usage and maintenance optimization problem for a k‐out‐of‐n system pertaining to a moving asset. The k‐out‐of‐n systems are commonly utilized in practice to increase availability, where n denotes the total number of parallel and identical units and k the number of units required to be active for a functional system. Moving assets such as aircraft, ships, and submarines are subject to different operating modes. Operating modes can dictate not only the number of system units that are needed to be active, but also where the moving asset physically is, and under which environmental conditions it operates. We use the intrinsic age concept to model the degradation process. The intrinsic age is analogous to an intrinsic clock which ticks on a different pace in different operating modes. In our problem setting, the number of active units, degradation rates of active and standby units, maintenance costs, and type of economic dependencies are functions of operating modes. In each operating mode, the decision maker should decide on the set of units to activate (usage decision) and the set of units to maintain (maintenance decision). Since the degradation rate differs for active and standby units, the units to be maintained depend on the units that have been activated, and vice versa. In order to minimize maintenance costs, usage and maintenance decisions should be jointly optimized. We formulate this problem as a Markov decision process and provide some structural properties of the optimal policy. Moreover, we assess the performance of usage policies that are commonly implemented for maritime systems. We show that the cost increase resulting from these policies is up to 27% for realistic settings. Our numerical experiments demonstrate the cases in which joint usage and maintenance optimization is more valuable. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 64: 418–434, 2017     

反舰导弹攻击三位一体图形化战术决策

反舰导弹攻击三位一体图形化战术决策,是将反舰导弹攻击时的捕捉概率决策、火分目标决策、航路规划决策等三种决策合为一体,以图形化的操作界面作为主要的决策交互手段,通过对各种图形的操作达到战术决策的目的。重点分析和研究了反舰导弹攻击三位一体图形化战术决策的基本思路、决策过程、设计原则、作战流程和图形设计,对开展反舰导弹攻击战术决策软件的研制具有一定的理论参考价值。     

基于MapGIS的突发事件应急指挥系统设计与实现

针对当前突发事件处理过程中人为因素过多,容易出现错误决策的不足,设计实现了基于MapGIS的突发事件应急指挥系统。系统包括地图操作、突发事件应急决策、突发事件模拟等功能,并以应急决策模块为例说明了系统实现。     

基于地域分析的智能空间决策支持技术

地域分析技术是作战指挥辅助决策的关键技术之一。详细介绍了基于多维战场环境条件下作战地域分析的智能空间决策支持系统的设计方法、系统结构、主要算法和实现。系统以军事地理信息系统、军用地图处理和态势信息系统为开发平台,设计过程中采用了联机分析处理、模型技术、数据挖掘、人工智能等辅助决策技术,实现了多约束条件下炮兵作战地域选择方案的自动生成和评估,提出了基于栅格元数据的地理信息表示模型、地域分析和评估模型、基于产生式规则的知识推理算法以及将模型、知识推理和实现方法紧密集成的决策支持模型,对基于地域分析的智能空间决策支持系统的系统结构和功能实现以及多层次决策支持技术进行了探索和研究。     

防空作战风险决策分析

防空作战决策活动具有极强的风险性。以决策者面对风险的态度为突破点,通过建立效用曲线并在最大效用原则下对有关决策问题进行优化,在一定程度上可大大降低决策方案的风险性。同时对于防空体系设计也具有一定的参考价值。     

The initial provisioning decision for insurance type items

Initial provisioning decisions (inventory stocking requirements) for low demand items often have to be made without much knowledge of what future demand rates will be. When the nature of an item is such that little demand for it is expected, the problem of whether to stock initially or risk not stocking the item is most critical. This report discusses this problem and presents decision procedures which can be used to handle this aspect of initial provisioning. The procedures relate an item's provisioning desirability to its provisioning characteristics, such as expected cost, expected resupply time, current information on its likely demand rate, and to an overall operating policy or criterion. The criterion function measures the total system degredation as a function of the events of having items out of stock when demand occurs. Several different policy functions are discussed and the provisioning decision rules which apply to each are presented. Demand rate information is handled through a Bayesian type approach. The decision rules presented in this report can be utilized to either determine stocking requirements within a budgetary constraint, or determine the relative stocking desirability on an item-by-item basis.     

Threshold optimization for weighted voting classifiers

Weighted voting classifiers considered in this paper consist of N units each providing individual classification decisions. The entire system output is based on tallying the weighted votes for each decision and choosing the one which has total support weight exceeding a certain threshold. Each individual unit may abstain from voting. The entire system may also abstain from voting if no decision support weight exceeds the threshold. Existing methods of evaluating the reliability of weighted voting systems can be applied to limited special cases of these systems and impose some restrictions on their parameters. In this paper a universal generating function method is suggested which allows the reliability of weighted voting classifiers to be exactly evaluated without imposing constraints on unit weights. Based on this method, the classifier reliability is determined as a function of a threshold factor, and a procedure is suggested for finding the threshold which minimizes the cost of damage caused by classifier failures (misclassification and abstention may have different price.) Dynamic and static threshold voting rules are considered and compared. A method of analyzing the influence of units' availability on the entire classifier reliability is suggested, and illustrative examples are presented. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 50: 322–344, 2003.     

战役级军械维修器材保障决策支持系统设计研究

传统的面向事务的数据处理方法已经无法适应处理大量数据的要求,为解决这一问题,将面向主题的数据仓库技术用于军械维修器材保障决策支持系统的设计,阐述了基于数据仓库的军械维修器材保障决策支持系统需求分析、系统设计和系统实现,讨论了系统设计原则、设计方法、逻辑结构设计、多维数据仓库设计、底层数据库设计、前端用户视图设计等内容,对军械维修器材保障决策支持系统的开发提供了基本思路．     

基于HLA的维修保障仿真系统设计研究

针对作战单元维修保障能力评估的需求,提出建立基于HLA的维修保障仿真分析平台。在分析维修保障系统构成和运行过程的基础上,阐述了仿真联邦的设计思想和构建方法,并进行了系统设计。根据实际系统的运行逻辑开发了联邦剧情,基于HLA的开发和执行过程模型构建了联邦系统框架,设计了联邦对象模型,并指出了仿真实现的关键技术所在。     

LCDP SO算法在协同空战攻击决策中的运用?

为了探索提高协同空战攻击决策算法性能的途径,将多子群粒子群优化理论用于求解协同空战攻击决策,利用生命周期粒子群模型（ LCPSO）,提出了一种生命周期离散粒子群（ LCDPSO）协同空战攻击决策算法。基于典型空战想定背景,仿真验证了算法的有效性。通过统计实验的方法,分析比较了LCDPSO协同空战攻击决策算法与多种智能决策算法的准确性、可靠性和快速性,研究结果证明LCDPSO协同空战攻击决策算法优良的综合性能。     

小户型公寓设计与分析

公寓房是我军住房保障体系的重要组成部分,其中又以小户型公寓房为主体,加强小户型公寓的设计研究对提高其保障效能具有现实意义。解读军队公寓住房建筑设计方案竞赛一等奖作品,指出小户型公寓采用一梯两户多层的形式在营造营区环境、降低建筑全寿命费用、改善室内舒适度等方面具有比较优势;应合理分配小户型公寓房面积,适当提高卫浴和厨房所占面积比例,控制客厅和卧室规模;应在门厅空间布局与卫浴空间分室设置、储藏空间多样化、布置多用途小空间、管井集中出户等方面提高设计的精细化程度。     

The dynamic and stochastic knapsack Problem with homogeneous‐sized items and postponement options

This article generalizes the dynamic and stochastic knapsack problem by allowing the decision‐maker to postpone the accept/reject decision for an item and maintain a queue of waiting items to be considered later. Postponed decisions are penalized with delay costs, while idle capacity incurs a holding cost. This generalization addresses applications where requests of scarce resources can be delayed, for example, dispatching in logistics and allocation of funding to investments. We model the problem as a Markov decision process and analyze it through dynamic programming. We show that the optimal policy with homogeneous‐sized items possesses a bithreshold structure, despite the high dimensionality of the decision space. Finally, the value (or price) of postponement is illustrated through numerical examples. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 62: 267–292, 2015     

反渗透系统水的回收率研究

反渗透技术是海水淡化技术的重要组成部分，其中水的回收率设计问题是反渗透系统设计的重要方面。在不影响反渗透膜寿命的前提下，回收率设计最基本的依据是提高整个系统的经济性。在综合分析回收率对系统规模、运行成本以及传质过程三个方面的影响之后，认为提高回收率有利于降低系统规模的建设成本以及运行成本，但是由于膜的传质过程的条件限制，回收率的提高必须限定在一个范围内。     

Predicting the cost performance of inventory control systems by retrospective simulation

When an inventory-control system is designed to utilized statistical demand information in computing an (s,S) policy, it may be necessary to use performance forecasts to calibrate the relationship between control parameters and performance measures. Using a simulation model to test prediction by retrospective simulation we estimated the bias and variance of forecasts for expected costs and other operating characteristics. The results show the sensitivity of the prediction bias to changes in demand, cost, and lead time parameters and to choices made in system design.     

Optimal redesign decisions through failure rate estimates

To reduce the time-to-market of newly developed systems, manufacturers increasingly adopt strategies where systems are brought to market while system field reliability is still uncertain. These systems are typically sold under performance-based contracts, which incentivizes potential customers to invest in them despite reliability uncertainty. Such contracts make the manufacturer (partly) responsible for the availability of the system. Subsequently, when field reliability is lower than anticipated, the manufacturer may choose to redesign the system to avoid high contract penalties. Redesign is a costly effort which may substantially increase field reliability. Deciding when to redesign is challenging, especially because the initial failure rate estimate by the system's engineers is refined over time as failure data accrues. We propose a model that endogenizes the failure rate updating to analyze this tactical redesign decision. We study additive and multiplicative redesigns and show that the optimal policy has a control limit structure. We benchmark our optimal policy against a static counterpart numerically, and conclude that basing redesign decisions on the updated estimate of the failure rate can substantially reduce costs.     

天基信息支援指挥控制体系运行机制及复杂网络建模?

天基信息支援是当前联合作战的主要样式之一，指挥控制体系是天基信息支援联合作战的核心和神经中枢，构建天基信息支援指挥控制体系运行机制和网络结构模型有助于提升天基信息支援乃至联合作战体系效能。探讨了天基信息支援云作战的基本概念和主要特点、天基信息支援云作战体系的构成和运行机制、以及天基信息支援云作战指挥控制体系的构成和流程，勾画了天基信息支援云作战指挥控制的理论框架，并结合示例构建了天基信息支援云作战指挥控制体系结构的复杂网络模型，并进行了主要参量分析，对开展天基信息支援指挥控制体系建设，指导天基信息支援以及联合作战体系需求论证、结构设计、评估优化等具有积极而现实的参考价值。     

Optimal investment,pricing and replacement of computer resources

The problem of multiple-resource capacity planning under an infinite time horizon is analyzed using a nonlinear programming model. The analysis generalizes to the long term the short-run pricing model for computer networks developed in Kriebel and Mikhail [5]. The environment assumes heterogeneous resource capacities by age (vingate), which service a heterogeneous and relatively captive market of users with known demand functions in each time period. Total variable operating costs are given by a continuous psuedoconcave function of system load, capacity, and resource age. Optimal investment, pricing, and replacement decision rules are derived in the presence of economies of scale and exogenous technological progress. Myopic properties of the decision rules which define natural (finite) planning subhorizons are discussed.