Interchange fee rate,merchant discount rate,and retail price in a credit card network: A game‐theoretic analysis

We consider two game‐theoretic settings to determine the optimal values of an issuer's interchange fee rate, an acquirer's merchant discount rate, and a merchant's retail price in a credit card network. In the first setting, we investigate a two‐stage game problem in which the issuer and the acquirer first negotiate the interchange fee rate, and the acquirer and the retailer then determine their merchant discount rate and retail price, respectively. In the second setting, motivated by the recent US bill “H.R. 2695,” we develop a three‐player cooperative game in which the issuer, the acquirer, and the merchant form a grand coalition and bargain over the interchange fee rate and the merchant discount rate. Following the cooperative game, the retailer makes its retail pricing decision. We derive both the Shapley value‐ and the nucleolus‐characterized, and globally‐optimal unique rates for the grand coalition. Comparing the two game settings, we find that the participation of the merchant in the negotiation process can result in the reduction of both rates. Moreover, the stability of the grand coalition in the cooperative game setting may require that the merchant should delegate the credit card business only to the issuer and the acquirer with sufficiently low operation costs. We also show that the grand coalition is more likely to be stable and the U.S. bill “H.R. 2695” is thus more effective, if the degree of division of labor in the credit card network is higher as the merchant, acquirer, and issuer are more specialized in the retailing, acquiring, and issuing operations, respectively. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2012     

CCD高速摄像机及其在核爆光辐射信号探测中的应用

介绍了CCD高速摄像机基本构成和工作原理,并就其在核爆光辐射信号探测中的应用进行了分析探讨,最后得出使用CCD高速撮像机探测核爆光辐射特性是可行的。     

数字化装甲营作战仿真实验室的支撑软件设计

介绍了数字化装甲营作战仿真实验室的支撑软件组成、结构和功能.军事指挥人员(建模人员)利用支撑软件按照自己的意图,快速制定作战想定,兵力、兵器部署的系统模型,通过系统模型的运行,实现战斗进程的逼真模拟,实施人在环、部分实装在环的装甲兵分队作战指挥对抗演习和实验,完成装甲兵分队的战术和技术训练任务,为装甲兵部队作战理论研究,人员训练,装备作战效能评估,技术保障研究和院校各专业技术人才培养提供高技术的软件平台,并且快速确定系统模型的可信度指标,为上级机关决策的合理化提供有力的支持.     

玻璃镜破坏痕迹的试验研究

本文根据一种玻璃镜的破坏试验结果,结合普通平板玻璃的有关物理性质,对玻璃镜的破坏痕迹进行了实用性的研究。认为玻璃镜的破坏痕迹不仅与造成破坏的原因有关,而且还与破坏时的条件有关。从而为分析火灾现场情况,了解火灾的各种因素提供了理论依据,为尽快查明火灾原因起指导作用。     

Minimizing the false alarm rate in systems with transient abnormality

We consider a stochastic partially observable system that can switch between a normal state and a transient abnormal state before entering a persistent abnormal state. Only the persistent abnormal state requires alarms. The transient and persistent abnormal states may be similar in appearance, which can result in excess false alarms. We propose a partially observable Markov decision process model to minimize the false alarm rate, subject to a given upper bound on the expected alarm delay time. The cost parameter is treated as the Lagrange multiplier, which can be estimated from the bound of the alarm delay. We show that the optimal policy has a control‐limit structure on the probability of persistent abnormality, and derive closed‐form bounds for the control limit and present an algorithm to specify the Lagrange multiplier. We also study a specialized model where the transient and persistent abnormal states have the same observation distribution, in which case an intuitive “watchful‐waiting” policy is optimal. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 320–334, 2016     

CON/SLK due date assignment and scheduling on a single machine with two agents

We consider scheduling problems involving two agents (agents A and B), each having a set of jobs that compete for the use of a common machine to process their respective jobs. The due dates of the A‐jobs are decision variables, which are determined by using the common (CON) or slack (SLK) due date assignment methods. Each agent wants to minimize a certain performance criterion depending on the completion times of its jobs only. Under each due date assignment method, the criterion of agent A is always the same, namely an integrated criterion consisting of the due date assignment cost and the weighted number of tardy jobs. Several different criteria are considered for agent B, including the maxima of regular functions (associated with each job), the total (weighted) completion time, and the weighted number of tardy jobs. The overall objective is to minimize the performance criterion of agent A, while keeping the objective value of agent B no greater than a given limit. We analyze the computational complexity, and devise polynomial or pseudo‐polynomial dynamic programming algorithms for the considered problems. We also convert, if viable, any of the devised pseudopolynomial dynamic programming algorithms into a fully polynomial‐time approximation scheme. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 416–429, 2016     

武警部队在执勤中对非法小型无人机防范问题探究

小型无人机的装备使用可以大大提高武警部队遂行任务中的侦查能力,但不法分子也同样在利用无人机对执勤目标进行监视和窃密,甚至利用无人机进行袭击和破坏。维护执勤目标安全稳定是武警部队的神圣职责,在执勤中防范和打击非法无人机,防止其进行袭击和破坏是一个值得研究的新课题。文章提出了"硬打击""软打击"防御无人机方法,研究表明,装备呈多样性,智能化和一体化趋势。     

电子战条件下雷达接收信号模型

文中建立了电子战条件下雷达信号环境数学模型,包括雷达发射信号数学模型,目标回波信号数学模型,电子干扰（有源干扰和无源干扰）信号数学模型,杂波数学模型以及噪声数学模型     

火箭发动机燃烧室内气体非定常流动数值模拟

应用新的ＰＩＳＯ算法对液体火箭发动机内非定常流动过程进行了数值模拟计算。算法采用一步隐式预测、两步显式校正完成每一时间层计算,而不是通常的多次迭代计算,因而大大缩短计算时间。     

考虑线性应变硬化效应时自紧管的应力与强度

本文主要讨论了在材料线性应变硬化效应的情况下,自紧管应力与强度的计算公式的推导。