Waiting time analysis for a queueing system with time‐limited service and exponential timer

We consider a single‐queue with exhaustive or gated time‐limited services and server vacations, in which the length of each service period at the queue is controlled by a timer, i.e., the server serves customers until the timer expires or the queue becomes empty, whichever occurs first, and then takes vacations. The customer whose service is interrupted due to the timer expiration may be attended according to nonpreemptive or preemptive service disciplines. For the M/G/1 exhaustive/gated time‐limited service queueing system with an exponential timer and four typical preemptive/nonpreemptive service disciplines, we derive the Laplace—Stieltjes transforms and the moment formulas for waiting times and sojourn times through a unified approach, and provide some new results for these time‐limited service disciplines. © John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 48: 638–651, 2001.     

Arrival and departure state distributions in the general bulk‐service queue

In this paper, we give an explicit relation between steady‐state probability distributions of the buffer occupancy at customer entrance and departure epochs, for the classical single‐server system G/G^[N]/1 with batch services and for the finite capacity case. The method relies on level‐crossing arguments. For the particular case of Poisson input, we also express the loss probability in terms of state probabilities at departure epochs, yielding probabilities observed by arriving customers. This work provides the “bulk queue” version of a result established by Burke, who stated the equality between probabilities at arrival and departure epochs for systems with “unit jumps.” © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 46: 107–118, 1999     

Inventory control and periodic price discounting campaigns

This paper develops an inventory model that determines replenishment strategies for buyers facing situations in which sellers offer price‐discounting campaigns at random times as a way to drive sales or clear excess inventory. Specifically, the model deals with the inventory of a single item that is maintained to meet a constant demand over time. The item can be purchased at two different prices denoted high and low. We assume that the low price goes into effect at random points in time following an exponential distribution and lasts for a random length of time following another exponential distribution. We highlight a replenishment strategy that will lead to the lowest inventory holding and ordering costs possible. This strategy is to replenish inventory only when current levels are below a certain threshold when the low price is offered and the replenishment is to a higher order‐up‐to level than the one currently in use when inventory depletes to zero and the price is high. Our analysis provides new insight into the behavior of the optimal replenishment strategy in response to changes in the ratio of purchase prices together with changes in the ratio of the duration of a low‐price period to that of a high‐price period. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007.     

过航点舰载弹炮结合武器系统发射判定模型

针对基于过航点对弹炮结合武器系统进行火力分配中未求解过航点坐标和未考虑毁伤概率等因素,以及基于勾径点模型对弹炮结合武器进行火力分配方法过于简化、未充分考虑武器系统火力防区对弹炮发射判定的影响等问题,建立基于过航点的弹炮发射判定模型,提出了基于过航点的弹炮结合武器发射判定问题的解决方案,经仿真分析,与上两种算法对比,具有一定的改进。     

机动管线水底穿越稳管方法探讨

机动管线水底穿越江河,裸管铺设在河床上,由于水流的作用,通常需要施加压载才能保持稳定.针对机动管线在水底的受力情况,研究管线受力的影响因素,探讨管线能够保持稳定的临界流速,并以DN150管线为例进行计算,得到管线需要施加压载稳管的临界流速;提出采用机动管线配备的管子和器材,以管线充水作为压载的稳管方法,并进行了理论分析...     

城市道路交叉口人行环境设计分析——以重庆市大坪、石桥铺路段为例

以人为本是建筑设计的基本原则,是建筑设计的根本价值取向和终极目标。建筑师应将其落实到建筑设计的细节中。随着城市化进程的加快,城市道路交叉口过街环境越来越多样化、立体化。实地考察了重庆市大坪到石桥铺路段过街环境,在对其形态、人流、车流、人的行为方式等诸多要素进行分析的基础上,结合街道两侧建筑环境现状,探讨环境与人的行为之间的深层次关系,揭示了人的行为心理、行为特征和行为目的是城市道路交叉口过街环境设施设计中应考虑的主要因素。结合实例强调,设计师应特别关注因街道两侧建筑环境业已形成的人的习惯性过街行为,它也是影响城市道路交叉口人行环境设计的重要因素。     

Parallel Sets的改进及其在全球恐怖袭击数据分析中的应用

随着恐怖主义愈演愈烈,"反恐"成为当今世界各国军事安全部门的中心任务.使用分类型可视化工具Parallel Sets分析国际恐怖主义数据库中多属性分类值间的关系,揭示数据库中的隐性信息,并针对Parallel Sets任意排列分类值产生较多交叉的不足,提出带降势的启发式分类值布局算法,自动优化分类值布局顺序,减轻视图中...     

Optimally scheduling interfering and non‐interfering cranes

This article treats the problem of scheduling multiple cranes processing jobs along a line, where cranes are divided into different groups and only cranes in the same group can interfere with each other. Such crane scheduling problems occur, for example, at indented berths or in container yards where double rail‐mounted gantry cranes stack containers such that cranes of the same size can interfere with each other but small cranes can pass underneath larger ones. We propose a novel algorithm based on Benders decomposition to solve this problem to optimality. In a computational study, it is shown that this algorithm solves small and medium‐sized instances and even many large instances within a few seconds or minutes. Moreover, it improves several best known solutions from the literature with regard to the simpler problem version with only one crane group. We also look into whether investment in more complicated crane configurations with multiple crane groups is actually worthwhile.     

Sojourn time analysis of a queueing system with two‐phase service and server vacations

We consider a two‐phase service queueing system with batch Poisson arrivals and server vacations denoted by M^X/G₁‐G₂/1. The first phase service is an exhaustive or a gated bulk service, and the second phase is given individually to the members of a batch. By a reduction to an M^X/G/1 vacation system and applying the level‐crossing method to a workload process with two types of vacations, we obtain the Laplace–Stieltjes transform of the sojourn time distribution in the M^X/G₁‐G₂/1 with single or multiple vacations. The decomposition expression is derived for the Laplace–Stieltjes transform of the sojourn time distribution, and the first two moments of the sojourn time are provided. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

跨境民族对云南边境管理的影响及原因分析

云南省是跨境民族多、贫困人口多、山村面积大的边疆省份。由于其特殊的地理位置和所处环境,历来既是中国边疆危机的前沿阵地,又是国防前线和战略要冲。跨境民族常年居住在边界两侧,对边境情况较为熟悉,经常在国境线两侧出入,从而加大了边境管理的难度,影响了边境管理的有效性和有序性。这一现象应引起边境管理部门的高度重视。