基于筹措供应中心的装备器材保障研究

将先进的物流理论和供应链管理思想应用于装备器材保障中,阐述了建立装备器材筹措供应中心的重要性,构建了基于筹措供应中心的装备器材保障体系,设计了基于筹措供应中心的器材保障物流网络和器材保障信息管理,探讨了该模式下装备器材保障体系的运作机制,从而实现了装备器材保障管理的系统性和集成性,提高了装备器材保障的时效性和敏捷性。     

装备保障训练业务工程理论及体系构想

为适应信息化条件下装备保障训练转型的需要,提出装备保障训练业务工程理论研究构想。在研究装备保障训练业务工程概念的基础上,初步构建其理论体系,分析了该理论的特点,为装备保障训练系统研究提供了一种新的思路,对于促进装备保障训练工作的发展和改进具有一定的参考价值。     

基于能力需求的武器装备体系结构描述方法研究

提出一种“基于能力需求”的武器装备体系结构描述方法,包括两种描述思路,分别是“从需求到体系”的描述思路和“从体系到能力”的描述思路;以定性描述和定量描述的形式,给出了武器装备体系结构描述的框架与流程。该方法能为武器装备体系的构建与优化提供基础与指导。     

PDA在应急事故指挥中的应用研究

在分析当前部队应急事故指挥现状与PDA(Personal Digital Assistant)应用现状的基础上,提出集成EGIS,GPS,GPRS的PDA系统在应急事故指挥中的应用原型,用于解决应急事故指挥中移动困难的问题,加快应急事故指挥系统的响应速度,降低事故造成的损失.介绍了Windows CE与嵌入式开发、系统组成、工作原理及系统功能,为PDA在应急事故指挥中的应用提出一个可行性方案.     

复杂环境下防空体系效能评估的网络环模型研究与应用

随着当前防空指挥控制体系正逐步由"以平台为中心"向以"网络为中心"转变,与此相关的网络化的效能分析却一直进展不大,原因之一就在于缺乏合适的网络模型和方法对其进行描述和分析.基于此,通过构建防空指挥控制体系网络环模型,设计了一种求取邻接矩阵Perron-Frobenius特征值(PFE)的评估方法,该模型清晰地反映了防空指挥控制体系的复杂网络化结构,其邻接矩阵特征值能较好地反映防空指挥控制体系的网络化作战效能.通过一个高炮防空指挥控制网络的实例,分别分析了在理想环境和在电磁干扰的复杂环境下,防空指挥控制体系核心转移的过程及其邻接矩阵的特征值,证明该方法结构明晰,简单可行,对防空指挥控制体系的网络化效能分析是有效的.     

Properties of a mean residual life function arising from renewal theory

The present article discusses the properties of the mean residual life function in a renewal process. We examine the relationship this function has with the failure rate function and the conventional mean, variance and coefficient of variation of residual life. We also discuss some monotonicity properties of the mean residual life function. A partial order based on the renewal mean residual function is introduced along with its interrelationship with some existing stochastic orders. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2010     

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     

Threshold incentives over multiple periods and the sales hockey stick phenomenon

In this article, we study threshold‐based sales‐force incentives and their impact on a dealer's optimal effort. A phenomenon, observed in practice, is that the dealer exerts a large effort toward the end of the incentive period to boost sales and reach the threshold to make additional profits. In the literature, the resulting last‐period sales spike is sometimes called the hockey stick phenomenon (HSP). In this article, we show that the manufacturer's choice of the incentive parameters and the underlying demand uncertainty affect the dealer's optimal effort choice. This results in the sales HSP over multiple time periods even when there is a cost associated with waiting. We then show that, by linking the threshold to a correlated market signal, the HSP can be regulated. We also characterize the variance of the total sales across all the periods and demonstrate conditions under the sales variance can be reduced. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2010     

An integer decomposition algorithm for solving a two‐stage facility location problem with second‐stage activation costs

We study a stochastic scenario‐based facility location problem arising in situations when facilities must first be located, then activated in a particular scenario before they can be used to satisfy scenario demands. Unlike typical facility location problems, fixed charges arise in the initial location of the facilities, and then in the activation of located facilities. The first‐stage variables in our problem are the traditional binary facility‐location variables, whereas the second‐stage variables involve a mix of binary facility‐activation variables and continuous flow variables. Benders decomposition is not applicable for these problems due to the presence of the second‐stage integer activation variables. Instead, we derive cutting planes tailored to the problem under investigation from recourse solution data. These cutting planes are derived by solving a series of specialized shortest path problems based on a modified residual graph from the recourse solution, and are tighter than the general cuts established by Laporte and Louveaux for two‐stage binary programming problems. We demonstrate the computational efficacy of our approach on a variety of randomly generated test problems. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2010