Economic ordering decisions with market choice flexibility

Standard approaches to classical inventory control problems treat satisfying a predefined demand level as a constraint. In many practical contexts, however, total demand is comprised of separate demands from different markets or customers. It is not always clear that constraining a producer to satisfy all markets is an optimal approach. Since the inventory‐related cost of an item depends on total demand volume, no clear method exists for determining a market's profitability a priori, based simply on per unit revenue and cost. Moreover, capacity constraints often limit a producer's ability to meet all demands. This paper presents models to address economic ordering decisions when a producer can choose whether to satisfy multiple markets. These models result in a set of nonlinear binary integer programming problems that, in the uncapacitated case, lend themselves to efficient solution due to their special structure. The capacitated versions can be cast as nonlinear knapsack problems, for which we propose a heuristic solution approach that is asymptotically optimal in the number of markets. The models generalize the classical EOQ and EPQ problems and lead to interesting optimization problems with intuitively appealing solution properties and interesting implications for inventory and pricing management. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2004.     

Mitigation effects on the reflected overpressure of blast shock with water surrounding an explosive in a confined space

The mitigation of blast shock with water has broad application prospects. Understanding the mitigation effects on the reflected overpressure of the explosion shock with water surrounding an explosive in a confined space is of great significance for military explosives safety applications. To estimate the effects of the parameters on the reflected overpressure of blasted shock wave, a series of experiments were carried out in confined containers with spherical explosives immersed in a certain thickness of water, and numerical simulations were conducted to explore the corresponding mechanisms. The results reveal that the reflected overpressure is abnormally aggravated at a small scaled distance. This aggravation is due to the high impulse of the bulk accelerated water shell converted from the explosion. With increasing scaled distance, the energy will be gradually dissipated. The mitigation effects will appear with the dispersed water phase front impacting at a larger scaled distance, except in the case of a dense water phase state. A critical scaled distance range of 0.7—0.8 m/kg1/3 for effective mitigation was found. It is suggested that the scaled distance of space walls should be larger than the critical value for a certain water-to-explosive weight ratio range (5—20).     

A supply chain design model with unreliable supply

Uncertainties abound within a supply chain and have big impacts on its performance. We propose an integrated model for a three‐tiered supply chain network with one supplier, one or more facilities and retailers. This model takes into consideration the unreliable aspects of a supply chain. The properties of the optimal solution to the model are analyzed to reveal the impacts of supply uncertainty on supply chain design decisions. We also propose a general solution algorithm for this model. Computational experience is presented and discussed. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

党对军队绝对领导的根本组织保证——我军党委制的历史考察及其启示

军队的领导权问题,是马克思主义建军理论和实践的核心问题。我军作为党绝对领导下的人民军队,在80年发展历程中,逐渐形成了听党指挥这一最大优势。其根本的组织保证就在于党委制的设立。对此进行认真的回顾与考察,对于新世纪新阶段坚持和完善党委制,坚持党对军队的绝对领导,更好地履行我军的职能使命,有着十分重要的意义。     

围绕保证永远"听党指挥"全面推进军队党的建设

回顾我军党的建设80年,始终贯穿着一条鲜明的红线——保证人民军队"听党指挥"。这也是新世纪加强军队党的建设的根本性要求。站在新的历史起点上,我们必须抓住这个根本问题,全面推进军队党的建设。     

Nuclear deterrence in the 21st century

The purpose behind this section is to encourage, and sometimes solicit, short commentary and/or comment on timely topics that play a role in shaping current national and international defense and security policies. There is no limit or constraint on what defense and security topics are chosen, so long as they are timely and have policy relevance. By way of guidance, the nearest equivalent would be feature articles in the more reputable broadsheet press.     

An economic lot‐sizing problem with perishable inventory and economies of scale costs: Approximation solutions and worst case analysis

The costs of many economic activities such as production, purchasing, distribution, and inventory exhibit economies of scale under which the average unit cost decreases as the total volume of the activity increases. In this paper, we consider an economic lot‐sizing problem with general economies of scale cost functions. Our model is applicable to both nonperishable and perishable products. For perishable products, the deterioration rate and inventory carrying cost in each period depend on the age of the inventory. Realizing that the problem is NP‐hard, we analyze the effectiveness of easily implementable policies. We show that the cost of the best Consecutive‐Cover‐Ordering (CCO) policy, which can be found in polynomial time, is guaranteed to be no more than (4 + 5)/7 ≈ 1.52 times the optimal cost. In addition, if the ordering cost function does not change from period to period, the cost of the best CCO policy is no more than 1.5 times the optimal cost. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2005.     

钝倒锥体动导数数值工程模拟

分别采用求解非定常薄层近似的N－S方程数值模拟有粘扰动流场及非定常内伏牛顿流理论计算了钝倒锥外形的高超声速俯仰阻尼导数Cma＋Cmq。在非定常计算中通过引入“亚迭代”过程提高非定常流场的计算精度。两种方法计算结果一致，数值计算可应用于3＜M＜20，0°＜α＜20°时的一般流态俯仰阻尼导数计算。     

低信噪比抖动红外点目标的检测

本文为解决低信噪比条件下抖动红外点目标的检测问题，提出了一种基于膨胀累加、检测前跟踪的检测算法。该算法运用膨胀累加方法能够消除抖动对多帧累加算法的不利影响，使目标能量仍然能够实现有效的积累，从而达到目标增强的目的。本文还采用了小波变换预处理方法，对图象中相关的１／ｆ噪声进行白化。模拟实验结果表明，该算法能够快速检测出信噪比为２抖动点目标。     

用随机仿真方法验证液体火箭发动机静特性数学模型

以某泵压式液体火箭发动机为研究对象，用试车数据对发动机静特性数学模型进行了验证，在验证模型时既考虑了外部干扰因素的实际测量误差范围和内部干扰因素的实际变化范围，又考虑了发动机参数实测量的误差范围，并且使用了随机仿真的方法。验证结果表明，发动机静特性的非线性数学模型是足够准确的，所用的计算方法是合理的。