Optimal pricing for a short life‐cycle product when customer price‐sensitivity varies over time

Technology products often experience a life‐cycle demand pattern that resembles a diffusion process, with weak demand in the beginning and the end of the life cycle and high demand intensity in between. The customer price‐sensitivity also changes over the life cycle of the product. We study the prespecified pricing decision for a product that exhibits such demand characteristics. In particular, we determine the optimal set of discrete prices and the times to switch from one price to another, when a limited number of price changes are allowed. Our study shows that the optimal prices and switching times show interesting patterns that depend on the product's demand pattern and the change in the customers' price sensitivity over the life cycle of the product. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2012     

纯引力轨道验证质量辐射计效应与气体阻尼耦合模型的数值分析

辐射计效应和气体阻尼是纯引力轨道验证质量的重要干扰力,是影响纯引力轨道构造水平的重要因素.在纯引力轨道飞行器中,这两种力分别描述了由腔体中温度梯度和验证质量相对运动引起的气体分子作用,两者从不同角度描述了气体分子作用力,均是气体分子作用力的一部分,而两者的耦合模型则可以反映验证质量受到的气体分子作用力总和.针对耦合模型形式复杂的特点,本文以内编队系统为例,利用数值方法分析了耦合模型中的影响因素,这些因素包括内卫星相对运动速度、内卫星半径、外卫星腔体半径、腔体平均温度、腔体温差和腔体平均压力等.对大量计算结果进行了数据拟合,给出了内卫星气体分子作用力与各物理参数关系的拟合公式,和原始计算结果相比,拟合误差在20％以内.     

基于全寿命周期的舰船喷水推进装置综合保障技术研究

针对舰船喷水推进装置的保障需求，介绍了喷水推进装置的基本组成、技术特点，引入环境特征，使用特征因素，研究喷水推进装置从交装到服役期满的全寿命服役周期的综合保障技术，提出针对喷水推进装置在不同状态、不同时期的保障策略，建立喷水推进装置保障能力体系。     

基于实射数据的舰炮弹药当量系数

弹药当量系数是准确评估身管寿命的关键参数。通过对某型小口径舰炮的研究,提出了一种基于实弹射击数据的当量系数计算方法。对实弹射击试验获取的身管内膛烧蚀磨损数据进行了分析处理,拟合得到了身管磨损速度曲线,并计算得到了3种射击条件下的当量系数。研究结果为评估该类型火炮身管寿命提供了重要的数据支撑。     

生命哲学视角下西部高校教师职业幸福感研究

幸福是人生追求的永恒主题，在以人为本的理念下，高等教育更为关注人的生命，人的生命存在方式。面对信息相对闭塞、生活环境相对恶劣、管理体制相对落后等无奈状况，西部高校教师职业幸福感如何？对于该问题的研究有利于促进教师心理健康发展，提升教师幸福感，提高教育教学质量。研究发现西部高校教师职业感受以不幸福为主；幸福感来源单一，主要来自于学生的行为表现；导致不幸福感的因素主要以压力大、学生问题、缺乏认可等因素为主。研究从生命哲学视角出发认为高校教师存在的应然意义在于“诗意栖息”，但实然状况下高校教师的“诗意存在”被现实消解，“创造性地栖息”、“精神相遇地栖息”是冲破藩篱、回归“诗意居住”幸福生活的路径。     

The effects of model parameter deviations on the variance of a linearly filtered time series

We consider a general linear filtering operation on an autoregressive moving average (ARMA) time series. The variance of the filter output, which is an important quantity in many applications, is not known with certainty because it depends on the true ARMA parameters. We derive an expression for the sensitivity (i.e., the partial derivative) of the output variance with respect to deviations in the model parameters. The results provide insight into the robustness of many common statistical methods that are based on linear filtering and also yield approximate confidence intervals for the output variance. We discuss applications to time series forecasting, statistical process control, and automatic feedback control of industrial processes. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2010     

可靠性强化试验与加速寿命试验综述

介绍可靠性强化试验与加速寿命试验的基本概念 ,并进一步综述强化试验与加速寿命试验的国内外研究现状 ,最后对强化试验与加速寿命试验领域可能的研究方向进行归纳总结。     

舰炮大型铸铝件断裂残余应力分析

采用盲孔法测试某型舰炮大型铸铝件残余应力,结果分析表明原结构中残余应力较大,部分位置残余应力超过材料屈服极限是其断裂的根本原因.通过工艺改进后,构件残余应力幅值大幅降低,满足工程要求.     

Mean residual life of coherent systems consisting of multiple types of dependent components

Mean residual life is a useful dynamic characteristic to study reliability of a system. It has been widely considered in the literature not only for single unit systems but also for coherent systems. This article is concerned with the study of mean residual life for a coherent system that consists of multiple types of dependent components. In particular, the survival signature based generalized mixture representation is obtained for the survival function of a coherent system and it is used to evaluate the mean residual life function. Furthermore, two mean residual life functions under different conditional events on components’ lifetimes are also defined and studied.     

Determination of burn‐in parameters and residual life for highly reliable products

Today, many products are designed and manufactured to function for a long period of time before they fail. Determining product reliability is a great challenge to manufacturers of highly reliable products with only a relatively short period of time available for internal life testing. In particular, it may be difficult to determine optimal burn‐in parameters and characterize the residual life distribution. A promising alternative is to use data on a quality characteristic (QC) whose degradation over time can be related to product failure. Typically, product failure corresponds to the first passage time of the degradation path beyond a critical value. If degradation paths can be modeled properly, one can predict failure time and determine the life distribution without actually observing failures. In this paper, we first use a Wiener process to describe the continuous degradation path of the quality characteristic of the product. A Wiener process allows nonconstant variance and nonzero correlation among data collected at different time points. We propose a decision rule for classifying a unit as normal or weak, and give an economic model for determining the optimal termination time and other parameters of a burn‐in test. Next, we propose a method for assessing the product's lifetime distribution of the passed units. The proposed methodologies are all based only on the product's initial observed degradation data. Finally, an example of an electronic product, namely contact image scanner (CIS), is used to illustrate the proposed procedure. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2003