An optimal structured policy for maintenance of partially observable aircraft engine components

This paper considers the maintenance of aircraft engine components that are subject to stress. We model the deterioration process by means of the cumulative jump process representation of crack growth. However, because in many cases cracks are not easily observable, maintenance decisions must be made on the basis of other information. We incorporate stress information collected via sensors into the scheduling decision process by means of a partially observable Markov decision process model. Using this model, we demonstrate the optimality of structured maintenance policies, which support practical maintenance schedules. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 45: 335–352, 1998     

专家系统优化排列准则及时间估计模型研究

军用仿真系统中 ,专家系统作为一个决策软件包 ,满足整个软件系统运行的性能需要 ,因此研究专家系统的推理时间是必要的。专家系统的推理时间与其推理模式、知识库结构等因素有关。针对知识库结构 ,利用时间齐次马尔可夫链为专家系统知识库进行建模 ,并给出了相应的时间估计模型及其排列准则 ,从而可以研究专家系统的实时性。     

柴油机磨损寿命的灰色马尔柯夫模型预测

基于灰色系统理论,将灰色ＧＭ（１,１）预测模型和马尔柯夫预测模型的优点结合起来,形成一个灰色马尔柯夫预测模型,拓宽了灰色预测的应用范围。特别地,这种模型的预测结果比其它随机波动性较大的数据到模型的预测结果精确得多。对柴油机磨损寿命进行预测,取得了令人满意的结果。     

快速边缘跟踪与边界链码的获取

本文首先讨论了边缘跟踪的常用方法,并指出了其存在的缺点,而后提出了虚象点与虚链的概念,并讨论了它们的性质。在此基础上,提出了快速边缘跟踪的算法和边界链码的获取。     

基于Markov决策支持系统的坦克排作战效能预测

分析了Markov模型的一般预测过程,建立了一种基于Markov决策支持系统的作战效能预测分析模型,根据坦克排在担负不同作战任务时的特点,给出了坦克排作战效能预测分析的应用实例,预测分析的结果表明,该模型能够对作战态势做以正确的预测,有利于指挥员更好地进行兵力部署,发挥坦克排作战的最佳效能.     

Optimization of steerable sensor network for threat detection

A Markov chain approach to detecting a threat in a given surveillance zone by a network of steerable sensors is presented. The network has a finite number of predetermined states, and transition from one state to another follows a Markov chain. Under the assumption that the threat avoids detection, two game theoretic problems for finding an optimal Markov chain (two surveillance strategies) are formulated: the first maximizes the probability of threat detection for two consecutive detection periods, whereas the second minimizes the average time of detection for the worst‐case threat's trajectory. Both problems are reduced to linear programming, and special techniques are suggested to solve them. For a dynamic environment with moving noise sources, the optimal Markov chain changes at each detection period, and the rate of convergence of the Markov chain to its stationary distribution is analyzed. Both surveillance strategies are tested in numerical experiments and compared one with another. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2011     

Monitoring the market or the salesperson? The value of information in a multilayer supply chain

We study a supply chain in which a manufacturer relies on a salesperson to sell the products to the consumers. The sales outcome is determined by a random market condition and the salesperson's service level, both of which are privately observed by the salesperson. Apart from them, there are two types of resellers: a knowledgeable reseller observes the market condition, whereas a diligent reseller can monitor the service level. While delegating to a reseller enhances information acquisition, it may also result in double marginalization and inefficiency. We identify several operating regimes in which double marginalization can be eliminated via simple contracts and establish the benefit of monitoring the salesperson over monitoring the market. Our dominance result is not prone to our model characteristics regarding the complementarity of market condition and sales effort, the relative importance of adverse selection and moral hazard, and the contract form. We then generalize our model and re‐establish the dominance result in the presence of reseller's risk aversion or private monitoring expertise. We also quantify the performance gaps among different selling schemes under various scenarios. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2011     

基于运动相似性的监控轨迹聚合分析

对于监控轨迹序列集,提出一种使用运动特征发现其潜在语义内容的方法.在特征统计估计阶段,将轨迹曲线中的拐点特征加入到核密度估计过程中,得到准确平滑的方向多性态分布;使用隐马尔科夫模型估计轨迹子类中存在的串行或并行空间模式.最后以运动特征分布为基础,提出一种基于运动相似性的轨迹层次聚合模型.实验结果表明,该模型可以有效地分...     

灰色-马尔科夫模型在机场道面使用性能预测中的应用

介绍利用灰色-马尔科夫模型对机场道面使用性能进行预测的基本方法和具体步骤,并给出了工程实例.应用分析表明,该方法能够充分利用机场道面使用中各段历史数据,较好地对机场道面使用性能进行预测,且预测结果比单纯的灰色模型有更高的精度.