Performance analysis of the cultural and creative industry: a network‐based approach

The cultural and creative industries (CCIs) in Taiwan have gradually contributed to the national economy under the impetus of government policies. We employ a two‐stage data envelopment analysis model with an additive efficiency decomposition approach to measure the profitability and marketability of 22 Taiwanese cultural and creative companies. Furthermore, we employ the network‐based ranking approach to identify benchmark inputs/outputs, and the strengths and weakness of each company. Our empirical results show that the profitability of the cultural and creative companies is better than their marketability. Companies in the industries of publishing, creative life, popular music, and cultural content averagely perform better than those in the other three types of CCIs in terms of profitability. Companies in the creative life industry are on average more efficient than those in the other five types of CCIs in terms of marketability. The profitability/marketability matrix of cultural and creative companies is also presented.     

Inventory competition with yield reliability improvement

This article studies the inventory competition under yield uncertainty. Two firms with random yield compete for substitutable demand: If one firm suffers a stockout, which can be caused by yield failure, its unsatisfied customers may switch to its competitor. We first study the case in which two competing firms decide order quantities based on the exogenous reliability levels. The results from the traditional inventory competition are generalized to the case with yield uncertainty and we find that quantity and reliability can be complementary instruments in the competition. Furthermore, we allow the firms to endogenously improve their yield reliability before competing in quantity. We show that the reliability game is submodular under some assumptions. The results indicate that the competition in quantity can discourage the reliability improvement. With an extensive numerical study, we also demonstrate the robustness of our analytical results in more general settings. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 62: 107–126, 2015     

The dynamic lot size model with quantity discount: Counterexamples and correction

Federgruen and Lee ([3]) proposed an optimal algorithm for the single-item dynamic lot size model with all-unit discount. In this note we show that their algorithm fails to find the optimal solution for some special cases. We also provide a modification to the algorithm to handle them. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 45: 419–422, 1998     

Schedule design for liner services under vessel speed reduction incentive programs

Gas and particulate emissions from ship transportation have been increasing in recent years. In order to mitigate ship emissions near coastal areas, voluntary vessel speed reduction incentive programs (VSRIPs) were put in place by a number of ports. This paper studies a schedule design problem faced by liner shipping companies under VSRIPs. It proposes a mixed-integer nonlinear mathematical model for the minimization of the total cost, consisting of fuel cost, as well as operating cost, minus dockage refunds. The model balances three determinants, that is, the compliance of VSRIPs, the speed limit (the maximum physical speed of ships and the upper speed limit imposed by VSRIPs), and the limited number of ships. An enumerative algorithm and a piecewise-linear approximation algorithm are developed, based on some properties of the nonlinear model. The efficiency of the proposed algorithms is validated through extensive computational experiments.     

基于STK的弹箭半实物飞行实时可视化仿真

随着信息化时代的到来,在先前所建立的弹箭半实物飞行实时仿真系统的基础上,研究了弹箭飞行的实时可视化方案。因此,在弹箭半实物飞行的Windows+RTX实时仿真系统下实现与STK软件的RT3模块的实时数据传输与控制,从而实现弹箭飞行的实时可视化。结果表明:基于STK建立的弹箭半实物仿真实时可视化系统,可以在STK窗口看到弹箭飞行姿态和轨迹的变化,通过对姿态和轨迹进行分析,可以得到该可视化系统满足需要的实时性要求。     

组织结构复杂性熵尺度评价模型

将熵作为复杂性的度量,给出了管理熵度量与评价管理复杂性的新尺度、方法的基本概念、定义和原理;建立了复杂性度量的数学模型;在信息转化矢量空间、功能矢量空间和结构矢量空间三个复杂性空间的结合上建立一个统一的复杂性空间,结合组织结构复杂性构成因子的建立,构建了复杂性熵尺度评价模型,并运用该模型对某组织结构优化前后的组织结构复杂性进行了评价。结果表明:组织结构优化前每层的结构熵和整体熵均大于优化后的熵,组织结构优化后各层的管理幅度和强度减少,管理效率有了显著提高,从而验证了该评价模型的有效性。     

浅谈型号研制的几种质量管理方法

本文针对目前型号研制过程质量管理的现状,从科学组建质量师系统、实施量化的质量目标管理、坚持关键评审的的预审制度、开展质量督察与监理等方面详细介绍了型号研制中加强质量管理的方法及在设计、制造总装、试验等阶段过程中的质量管理。     

Terminal allocation problem in a transshipment hub considering bunker consumption

This article investigates the method of allocating arriving vessels to the terminals in transshipment hubs. The terminal allocation decision faced by a shipping alliance has the influence on the scheduled arrival time of vessels and further affects the bunker consumption cost for the vessels. A model is formulated to minimize the bunker consumption cost as well as the transportation cost of inter‐terminal transshipment flows/movements. The capacity limitation of the port resources such as quay cranes (QCs) and berths is taken into account. Besides the terminal allocation, the QC assignment decision is also incorporated in the proposed model. A local branching based method and a particle swarm optimization based method are developed to solve the model in large‐scale problem instances. Numerical experiments are also conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed model, which can save around 14% of the cost when compared with the “First Come First Served” decision rule. Moreover, the proposed solution methods not only solve the proposed model within a reasonable computation time, but also obtain near‐optimal results with about 0.1～0.7% relative gap. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 529–548, 2016     

武器装备绿色化的探讨

传统武器装备在制造、使用及销毁时,都会对环境及人体产生危害,并且具有空间上的迁移性和时间上的延续性.研究武器装备的绿色化有利于从源头控制军事环境污染,节约资源能源,节省军费开支,有效地促进军事、环境、经济的可持续发展.阐述了国内外绿色武器装备的研发现状,探讨了武器装备绿色化遵循的基本原则,论述了应用绿色设计实现武器装备绿色化的技术方略,提出了我国发展绿色武器装备的建议.     

拓扑结构/模糊逻辑的车载导航系统地图匹配算法

研究了地图匹配技术在车辆组合导航系统中的特点,利用模糊逻辑处理近似信息的优势和路网的拓扑结构,提出了一种基于拓扑结构/模糊逻辑的匹配地图算法,通过模糊逻辑部分的搜索子算法和投影子算法计算路段的隶属度,再结合路网自身的拓扑结构来选择匹配路段及投影匹配点,详细介绍了该算法的设计和流程.实际跑车实验证明,该算法有效地提高了匹配正确率和匹配效率.