Optimal production ramp-up in the smartphone manufacturing industry

Motivated by challenges in the smartphone manufacturing industry, we develop a dynamic production ramp-up model that can be applied to economically satisfy nonstationary demand for short-life-cycle products by high-tech companies. Due to shorter life cycles and more rapid evolution of smartphones, production ramp-up has been increasingly critical to the success of a new smartphone. In the production ramp-up, the key challenge is to match the increasing capacity to nonstationary demand. The high-tech smartphone manufacturers are urged to jointly consider the effect of increasing capacity and decreasing demand. We study the production planning problem using a high-dimensional Markov decision process (MDP) model to characterize the production ramp-up. To address the curse of dimensionality, we refine Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) algorithm and theoretically analyze its convergence and computational complexity. In a real case study, we find that the MDP model achieves revenue improvement by stopping producing the existing product earlier than the benchmark policy. In synthetic instances, we validate that the proposed MCTS algorithm saves computation time without loss of solution quality compared with traditional value iteration algorithm. As part of the Lenovo production solution, our MDP model enables high-tech smartphone manufacturers to better plan the production ramp-up.     

9/11: WHAT DID WE KNOW AND WHEN DID WE KNOW IT?

In February 1998, Osama Bin Laden published a signed statement calling for a fatwa against the United States for its having ‘declared war against God’. As we now know, the fatwa resulted in the unprecedented attack of 9/11. The issue of whether or not 9/11 was in any way predictable culminated in the public debate between Richard Clarke, former CIA Director George Tenet and the White House. This paper examines whether there was any evidence of a structural change in the terrorism data at or after February 1998 but prior to June 2001, controlling for the possibility of other breaks in earlier periods. In doing so, we use the standard Bai–Perron procedure and our sequential importance sampling (SIS) Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for identifying an unknown number of breaks at unknown dates. We conclude that sophisticated statistical time‐series analysis would not have predicted 9/11.     

非高斯噪声下信号盲检测算法*

针对实际甚低频和超低频接收机不仅受非高斯噪声的影响,同时受到接收机内部和外部环境中高斯噪声影响的问题,对噪声采用高斯尺度混合分布和高斯分布的混合模型建模,根据混合模型的性质,设计了一种基于马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗方法的信号盲检测算法。盲检测算法在贝叶斯层次模型下,采用Gibbs抽样和M-H抽样更新参数,同步检测信道衰落系数、噪声模型参数和信号。算法迭代效率快、精度高。通过与最优检测性能比较,盲检测算法性能优异,对甚低频和超低频信号接收具有重要的现实意义。     

Double window acceptance sampling

We introduce the concept of a sequential double window procedure and compare the resulting acceptance test with both a fixed sample size method as well as with the Wald sequential probability ratio test. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2004     

无线传感器网络中多传感器动态自适应调度算法

无线传感器网络中,目标跟踪往往通过节点之间的协作完成。在无迹变换卡尔曼滤波基础上,提出一种多传感器动态自适应调度算法进行目标跟踪。该方法根据预测跟踪精度来确定采样间隔,然后基于特定的检测概率,为下一时刻选择一组传感器,形成一个临时工作组,并指定某一个传感器作为中心节点进行数据融合。仿真结果证明了该算法能有效提高跟踪精度和可靠性。     

加权采样的序列蒙特卡罗滤波技术

在处理非线性滤波问题时,常用的几种通过模型近似或计算近似的滤波方法均在某种特定的情况下具有适用性.近年来随着计算机处理能力的快速发展,提出了序列蒙特卡罗滤波方法,因其在处理复杂的非线性和非高斯问题时表现出强大的潜力而引起广泛关注.详述了序列蒙特卡罗滤波算法的基本思想和原理,对其关键技术进行了归纳分析,并指出了该方法亟待解决的一些难点问题.     

基于蒙特卡洛和multi-Agents的舰艇编队维修保障能力优化求解

针对舰艇编队的维修保障能力评估,采用蒙特卡洛方法和智能计算技术进行了建模,并在分布交互仿真环境下进行了求解.通过将舰艇编队维修系统按维修单位的功能划分成多个子系统,每个子系统抽象为能进行局部优化的Agent,实现了基于Agent的建模.在此基础上,重点讨论了基于HLA的仿真环境,通过应用RTI的服务确保了求解过程的时空一致性.仿真试验结果表明:通过采用蒙特卡洛方法、智能技术及分布交互仿真技术相结合的方法,能有效地对舰艇编队的维修保障能力进行评估.     

加权随机模拟的时变可靠性分析方法

针对结构时变可靠性的随机模拟分析方法计算代价大的问题,在极值方法的基础上提出基于加权随机模拟的时变可靠性分析策略。时变可靠性分析需要计算在不同时间处的失效概率,通常需要进行多次可靠性分析,计算代价巨大。所提方法通过对常规静态可靠性的随机模拟方法进行改进拓展,运用加权策略分别发展了加权蒙特卡洛法和加权重要抽样法,使之能够高效分析计算时变可靠性问题。所提方法仅需一次常规可靠性分析模拟,即可得到时变失效概率函数估计。采用管状悬臂梁和十杆桁架两个算例进行验证。结果表明,基于加权思想的分析方法在能确保精确度的前提下能够大幅度减小计算量,提高计算效率。     

蒙特卡洛剖分投影法的爆震弹破片平均比动能评估

为了评估爆震弹封装壳体破片致死、致伤半径,并削弱其平均比动能,基于蒙特卡洛剖分投影法建立破片平均比动能计算模型。通过LS-DYNA及自编程联合仿真方法对爆震弹自然破片、半预制破片比动能计算模型进行仿真求解,获得了全破片全时域的质量分布、初始速度、垂直靶分布、平均比动能阈值及安全半径等指标。结果表明:在相同装药参数下,半预制破片相比于自然破片,质量分布、初始速度阈值更低且更集中;在小于等于2.5 m范围内半预制破片平均比动能阈值比自然破片更低,大于2.5 m后半预制破片平均比动能阈值比自然破片更高。相比于自然破片,采用半预制破片可显著减小爆震弹破片的致死半径,但并不能明显增大其安全半径。     

考虑黏弹性材料随机性的被动约束层阻尼梁动力学分析

采用传递函数方法研究了阻尼层黏弹性材料随机性对被动约束层阻尼(PCLD)梁动力学特性的影响。由Hamilton原理建立了PCLD梁六阶运动微分方程,通过引入状态向量,建立了系统的状态空间方程,利用传递函数方法得到了梁的固有频率和损耗因子。以黏弹性材料分数导数模型中的参数作为基本的随机变量,并假设其服从正态分布,使用Monte Carlo直接抽样法考察了材料模型参数的随机性对结构固有频率和模态损耗因子的影响。计算结果表明黏弹性材料参数的随机性对梁动力学特性的变异系数影响较大,模态损耗因子的变异系数最大值是材料参数变异系数的4.5倍。