Revenue management with aircraft reassignment flexibility

A well‐studied problem in airline revenue management is the optimal allocation of seat inventory among different fare‐classes, given a capacity for the flight and a demand distribution for each class. In practice, capacity on a flight does not have to be fixed; airlines can exercise some flexibility on the supply side by swapping aircraft of different capacities between flights as partial booking information is gathered. This provides the airline with the capability to more effectively match their supply and demand. In this paper, we study the seat inventory control problem considering the aircraft swapping option. For theoretical and practical purposes, we restrict our attention to the class of booking limit policies. Our analytical results demonstrate that booking limits considering the swapping option can be considerably different from those under fixed capacity. We also show that principles on the relationship between the optimal booking limits and demand characteristics (size and risk) developed for the fixed‐capacity problem no longer hold when swapping is an option. We develop new principles and insights on how demand characteristics affect the optimal booking limits under the swapping possibility. We also develop an easy to implement heuristic for determining the booking limits under the swapping option and show, through a numerical study, that the heuristic generates revenues close to those under the optimal booking limits. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2011     

美军PAC-3评估指标体系分析

本文详细介绍了美国军方在对其PAC-3(爱国者先进能力-3)系统评估时所采用的评估指标体系。并对该评估指标体系的特点进行了认真的分析。本文旨在我军同类武器系统评估指标体系的建立提供参考。     

冗余技术在炮弹涂油机可靠性设计中的应用

运用冗余技术于军械装备的可靠性设计之中,可大大提高装备的可靠性。总结了炮弹涂油机可靠性设计的经验,从理论和实践的结合上阐述了冗余技术运用的途径、方法和注意的问题,通过给出涂油机可靠性模型、可靠性结构函数、计算单元重要度和系统的可靠性,为可靠性设计提供了一个简便的范例。     

基于Visual Basic故障诊断专家系统设计

从分析传统专家系统入手,把WINDOWS下的可视化技术和面向对象技术引入到人工智能程序设计中来。讨论了故障树模型的面向对象表示方法及其推理算法。根据雷达故障诊断中的典型故障树,给出了一个基于Visual Basic语言的故障诊断专家系统设计实例。     

偏心圆凸轮机构的运动学与动力学分析

按对心与偏置两种情况推导出了偏心圆凸轮机构压力角、位移、速度、加速度表达式,并由此对偏心圆凸轮机构工作过程中的运动学与动力学特性进行了分析。     

CDEST专家系统工具及其与数据库的接口

介绍、推荐了一种新的专家系统工具──ＣＤＥＳＴ（ＣｈｉｎｅｓｅＤｉａｇｎｏｓｉｓＥｘｐｅｒｔＳｙｓｔｅｍＴｏｏｌ）,并给出了ＣＤＥＳＴ与数据库接口的详细实现方法。     

切比雪夫多项式降阶技术在设计数字滤波器中的应用

论述一个以切比雪夫多项式为基础,能够使Ｎ阶多项式降阶而误差精度高的技术方法和此技术在设计数字滤波器中的应用。     

信息化战场指挥决策应突出增强“三性”

随着信息技术的不断发展和在军事领域的广泛运用，信息化战场将成为未来作战的主战场，作战指挥决策也将面临新的要求与挑战。文章从合理运用思维、综合运用各种方法和优化指挥机制体制等三个方面进行论述，旨在增强信息化战场指挥决策的敏锐性、科学性和时效性。     

Equivalent accelerated life testing plans for log‐location‐scale distributions

Accelerated life testing (ALT) is widely used to determine the failure time distribution of a product and the associated life‐stress relationship in order to predict the product's reliability under normal operating conditions. Many types of stress loadings such as constant‐stress, step‐stress and cyclic‐stress can be utilized when conducting ALT. Extensive research has been conducted on the analysis of ALT data obtained under a specified stress loading. However, the equivalency of ALT experiments involving different stress loadings has not been investigated. In this article, a log‐location‐scale distribution under Type I censoring is considered in planning ALT. An idea is provided for the equivalency of various ALT plans involving different stress loadings. Based on this idea, general equivalent ALT plans and some special types of equivalent ALT plans are explored. For demonstration, a constant‐stress ALT and a ramp‐stress ALT for miniature lamps are presented and their equivalency is investigated. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2010