Competing with channel partners: Supply chain conflict when retailers introduce store brands

Private‐label products are of increasing importance in many retail categories. While national‐brand products are designed by the manufacturer and sold by the retailer, the positioning of store‐brand products is under the complete control of the retailer. We consider a scenario where products differ on a performance quality dimension and we analyze how retailer–manufacturer interactions in product positioning are affected by the introduction of a private‐label product. Specifically, we consider a national‐brand manufacturer who determines the quality of its product as well the product's wholesale price charged to the retailer. Given the national‐brand quality and wholesale price, the retailer then decides the quality level of its store brand and sets the retail prices for both products. We find that a manufacturer can derive substantial benefits from considering a retailer's store‐brand introduction when determining the national brand's quality and wholesale price. If the retailer has a significant cost disadvantage in producing high‐quality products, the manufacturer does not need to adjust the quality of the national‐brand product, but he should offer a wholesale price discount to ensure its distribution through the retailer. If the retailer is competitive in providing products of high‐quality, the manufacturer should reduce this wholesale price discount and increase the national‐brand quality to mitigate competition. Interestingly, we find the retailer has incentive to announce a store‐brand introduction to induce the manufacturer's consideration of these plans in determining the national‐brand product quality and wholesale price. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2010     

不确定情况下协同空战目标分配方法

现代空战环境下出现的大量不确定信息, 现在常用的协同目标分配模型都没有考虑到这种情况.针对这种情况,将随机规划引入到协同空战目标分配研究中,在一般期望值模型的基础上,建立了多机空战协同目标分配期望值模型,并利用随机模拟、神经网络和遗传算法结合而成的混合智能算法来求解该期望值模型.2∶4协同空战仿真结果表明该模型的有效性.     

网络化多平台协同控制与决策系统总体设计框架

针对单一平台在探测能力和信息获取方面的局限性,提出构建基于空中、地面、水中平台的多平台人机协同控制与决策系统的体系结构,该系统的特点是有人参与决策,可实现有人平台和无人平台的协同。分析了地面指挥控制与决策中心及各平台应具有的功能,并对人机交互软件界面进行了总体设计。给出了一个典型的应用场景,分析了其工作原理及多平台协同跟踪与决策过程,验证了所提系统体系结构的灵活性和合理性。     

编队协同防空制导交接仿真研究

协同制导是编队协同防空作战中的一种重要作战手段.制导交接又是协同制导中的关键环节.对制导交接方式的选择进行了说明,分析了理想和实际交接区的范围,对水平交接区进行了仿真分析,对协同制导时的航路规划提出了要求.结果表明,只有交接平台以及导弹的相对位置以及导弹航路满足一定要求,才能顺利完成制导交接.     

无源时差定位布站形式对定位精度的影响

用时差法对空中机动目标进行定位,地面至少需要四个基站工作,而地面基站的布站形式对定位精度有很大的影响.通过计算机对时差定位的三种基本布站形式进行分析和仿真,得出了目标定位精度与布站方式的关系,即在相同的测量条件下达到最优的测量结果.通过建立时差定位模型,分析影响定位精度的各因素,得出了不同布站情况下的几何精度因子图,为无源时差定位系统的布站提供理论指导.     

基于战术地图的GPS坐标定位

主要研究在扫描的战术地图上进行GPS坐标定位、显示的方法。说明了GPS坐标系与北京1954坐标系的差异,给出了GPS坐标到高斯投影坐标的变换模型和GPS坐标修正的原理及方法,为战术地图的GPS定位提供了一种可行的方法。该方法使快速的GPS定位技术与战术地图详细的数据得到了最佳结合,解决了战术地图快速定位问题,拓展GPS定位的应用范围。     

GPS定位中2种自适应滤波的组合算法

分析了卡尔曼滤波发散的原因,并给出了指数加权的衰减自适应记忆滤波和噪声加权自适应滤波2种算法用来抑制发散,相应地分析了衰减因子的选取以及噪声模型的在线估计,最后提出这2种定位方式组合的定位算法。仿真结果表明,衰减自适应记忆滤波和噪声加权自适应滤波明显提高了卡尔曼滤波的定位精度并且抑制了发散,组合算法在提高定位精度、抑制发散的同时,使这2种定位方式的优点形成了互补,增加了算法的稳定性。     

多智能体系统的二阶一致性跟踪问题

为了解决通信时延下关于参考状态的二阶一致性问题,提出了一种一致性算法。该算法利用Lya-punov稳定性理论,首先给出多智能体系统在固定时延下达到一致性的充分的线性矩阵不等式(LMI)判据;再给出满足一定条件的多智能体系统在时变时延下达到一致性的判据;最后,以水下无人航行器(UUV)集结为应用背景进行算法验证。运算结果表明了所提出的一致性算法和判据的有效性。该算法适用于具有时延的有向通信网中多智能体系统关于参考状态的二阶一致性问题。     

带宽受限条件下的资源发布与定位

随着数据链技术的发展和指挥控制系统信息化水平的提升,对指控系统通过数据链实现资源共享和数据传输提出了越来越高的要求。本文根据我军武器装备水平和指控系统现状,研究了低数据率低带宽通信条件下的资源发布和定位的技术,并进行了原型验证,为多军兵种联合作战资源共享和行动协同提供了技术途径和解决方案。     

Inventory pooling games for expensive,low‐demand spare parts

We consider several independent decision makers who stock expensive, low‐demand spare parts for their high‐tech machines. They can collaborate by full pooling of their inventories via free transshipments. We examine the stability of such pooling arrangements, and we address the issue of fairly distributing the collective holding and downtime costs over the participants, by applying concepts from cooperative game theory. We consider two settings: one where each party maintains a predetermined stocking level and one where base stock levels are optimized. For the setting with fixed stocking levels, we unravel the possibly conflicting effects of implementing a full pooling arrangement and study these effects separately to establish intuitive conditions for existence of a stable cost allocation. For the setting with optimized stocking levels, we provide a simple proportional rule that accomplishes a population monotonic allocation scheme if downtime costs are symmetric among participants. Although our whole analysis is motivated by spare parts applications, all results are also applicable to other pooled resource systems of which the steady‐state behavior is equivalent to that of an Erlang loss system. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2012