Social benefits of government investment in enterprises

A critical issue for many governments is boosting the adoption rates of products or technologies that enhance consumer surplus or total social welfare. Governments may, for example, pay subsidies to producers or to consumers to stimulate the manufacture or consumption of specific products, for example, energy-efficient appliances or more effective drugs. This research proposes a strategic government investment policy, namely, share acquisition, and demonstrates its effectiveness in reaching societal objectives. We consider a Cournot quantities-choice market comprised of homogeneous firms where the government intervenes to buy shares, and turning private firms into state-owned enterprises. We recognize that purchasing a single private firm is the optimal policy for the government to reach its societal objectives. Additionally, taking into consideration financial constraints, we find that the optimal stake increases with the budget. Compared with the optimal output-based subsidy policy, when the budget is low, the optimal government investment policy induces a higher consumer surplus. In addition, in differentiated Cournot competition, under which firms compete in selling substitutable products, we find that when the budget is sufficient, the optimal stake purchased first decreases and then increases according to the substitutability level among products.     

Synchronizing pricing and replenishment to serve forward-looking customers

We incorporate strategic customer waiting behavior in the classical economic order quantity (EOQ) setting. The seller determines not only the timing and quantities of the inventory replenishment, but also the selling prices over time. While similar ideas of market segmentation and intertemporal price discrimination can be carried over from the travel industries to other industries, inventory replenishment considerations common to retail outlets and supermarkets introduce additional features to the optimal pricing scheme. Specifically, our study provides concrete managerial recommendations that are against the conventional wisdom on “everyday low price” (EDLP) versus “high-low pricing” (Hi-Lo). We show that in the presence of inventory costs and strategic customers, Hi-Lo instead of EDLP is optimal when customers have homogeneous valuations. This result suggests that because of strategic customer behavior, the seller obtains a new source of flexibility—the ability to induce customers to wait—which always leads to a strictly positive increase of the seller's profit. Moreover, the optimal inventory policy may feature a dry period with zero inventory, but this period does not necessarily result in a loss of sales as customers strategically wait for the upcoming promotion. Furthermore, we derive the solution approach for the optimal policy under heterogeneous customer valuation setting. Under the optimal policy, the replenishments and price promotions are synchronized, and the seller adopts high selling prices when the inventory level is low and plans a discontinuous price discount at the replenishment point when inventory is the highest.     

Volterra级数模型的非线性压缩测量辨识算法

针对非线性系统的辨识问题,提出了非线性压缩测量辨识算法,且推导出了一种符合压缩感知测量准则的测量模型。相比递归最小二乘法,该方法极大地减少了所需的测量数,使得高阶Volterra级数辨识成为可能。此外,还分析了实际应用中的各项因素对辨识准确性的影响,如信号稀疏度、测量噪声、测量矩阵形式等。     

Assortment optimization with position effects under the nested logit model

We study the assortment optimization problem with position effects under the nested logit model, whose goal is to find the revenue-maximizing subset of products as well as their corresponding display positions. In this joint assortment-position optimization problem, the choices of products are affected by not only their qualities and prices but also the positions where they are displayed. Despite determining the assortment and their corresponding display positions sequentially, we propose to solve this problem in an integrated way to obtain the optimal solution. We formulate this problem as a nonlinear binary integer programming model and develop a dynamic programming based solution approach to obtain the optimal assortment-position assignments. We carry out extensive numerical experiments to evaluate the benefit of our integrated approach. The most important insight we discover is that it is not necessarily better to put the most attractive products in the best position. Moreover, we show that compared to the sequential approaches, our approach can improve revenue by 10.38% on average, which suggests that firms should take into consideration position effects when making assortment decisions. Finally, we discuss results related to two extensions of this problem, that is, the special case when positions are preassigned to nests, and the joint assortment-position-price optimization problem.     

多阶段传感器-武器联合任务管理方法

针对动态环境下的传感器-武器联合任务管理问题展开研究。根据在动态作战过程中出现的有效新目标、有效空闲传感器和武器数量设定阶段门限,以决定进入下一阶段的时机,从而构建多阶段的作战过程。从打击方案质量及系统响应时间的角度出发,分析构建分布式作战体系对系统作战效能的影响,使系统在每个任务管理阶段可以决定响应流程。通过仿真实验验证了所构建的分布式作战体系与设定的阶段门限可以明显提升系统的作战效能。     

基于信息融合的多星搜索动目标问题

运用多星在海洋中搜索动目标,当动目标失去联系或者目标存在战术意图时,这种不确定动目标搜索将变得极为困难。建立搜索图描述搜索的环境模型,提出了一种解决多星搜索动目标问题的方法。利用信息融合的信息更新搜索图,并根据目标的运动预测方法再次更新搜索图,动态规划整个多星搜索动目标过程。卫星搜索策略是最大化目标发现概率。仿真实验结果验证了所提方法的有效性,能够有效地解决多星搜索动目标问题。     

大斜视角下空时编码成像算法

空时编码可以有效地消除多发多收雷达的自相关干扰,但是传统的空时编码合成孔径成像算法无法精确校正其距离方位耦合,因此限制了其在大斜视角情况下的数据处理能力。为避免以上缺陷,将空时编码方案与ωK算法相结合,在空时解码处理中引入新的解码矩阵来完成一致聚焦,利用Stolt映射完成补余聚焦,对距离方位耦合进行精确地校正。理论分析和仿真结果表明:该方法能够在大斜视角情况下实现目标的高质量成像,并有效地消除了互相关干扰。     

坦克连对岛上战车排进攻作战能力分析

利用作战动力学方法对我军一个装备有某新型的坦克连对敌一个战车排进攻的作战能力进行分析,分火力压制,疏开展开,冲击对抗三个阶段,用兰彻斯特平方定律公式建立模型进行定量分析,得出了对抗结束时双方兵力剩余数量和双方兵力损耗规律;提出了可指导作战的一些参考建议,为我坦克部队新装备形成战斗力,新时期岛上作战战法研究提供参考依据.     

对第四代战斗机综合航电系统的构想

通过对战斗机综合航电系统的回顾,分析了第四代战斗机及其航电系统的主要特征和关键技术,并对我国新一代综合航电系统的能力、功能等进行了展望.为提高我国航空电子技术的水平,要充分研究国外先进技术,对第四代战斗机综合航电系统进行分析和预先研究.