Dynamic inventory management with cash flow constraints

In this article, we consider a classic dynamic inventory control problem of a self‐financing retailer who periodically replenishes its stock from a supplier and sells it to the market. The replenishment decisions of the retailer are constrained by cash flow, which is updated periodically following purchasing and sales in each period. Excess demand in each period is lost when insufficient inventory is in stock. The retailer's objective is to maximize its expected terminal wealth at the end of the planning horizon. We characterize the optimal inventory control policy and present a simple algorithm for computing the optimal policies for each period. Conditions are identified under which the optimal control policies are identical across periods. We also present comparative statics results on the optimal control policy. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 2008     

A decision support system for the procurement of military equipment

The use of life-cycle costs in procurement is limited by the accuracy of cost estimates and assessments of availability risks under the conditions generating costs. Critical to these problems are the needs and responses of equipment to maintenance and repair. Using transition probabilities to define the relationships between serviceability and maintenance and repairs, this article develops a comprehensive decision support system for military procurement. It uses a dynamic programming model to determine the least-cost set of maintenance and repair decisions, where adjustments are included for warranty conditions, time value of money, the opportunity costs of equipment failure, and the end-of-cycle salvage values or disposal costs. The system allows users to define working and failed states, create their own rules or indicators of availability from estimates of state probabilities and establish thresholds of risk acceptability.     

Value management of diagnostic equipment with cancelation,no‐show,and emergency patients

Magnetic resonance imaging and other multifunctional diagnostic facilities, which are considered as scarce resources of hospitals, typically provide services to patients with different medical needs. This article examines the admission policies during the appointment management of such facilities. We consider two categories of patients: regular patients who are scheduled in advance through an appointment system and emergency patients with randomly generated demands during the workday that must be served as soon as possible. According to the actual medical needs of patients, regular patients are segmented into multiple classes with different cancelation rates, no‐show probabilities, unit value contributions, and average service times. Management makes admission decisions on whether or not to accept a service request from a regular patient during the booking horizon to improve the overall value that could be generated during the workday. The decisions should be made by considering the cancelation and no‐show behavior of booked patients as well as the emergency patients that would have to be served because any overtime service would lead to higher costs. We studied the optimal admission decision using a continuous‐time discrete‐state dynamic programming model. Identifying an optimal policy for this discrete model is analytically intractable and numerically inefficient because the state is multidimensional and infinite. We propose to study a deterministic counterpart of the problem (i.e., the fluid control problem) and to develop a time‐based fluid policy that is shown to be asymptotically optimal for large‐scale problems. Furthermore, we propose to adopt a mixed fluid policy that is developed based on the information obtained from the fluid control problem. Numerical experiments demonstrate that this improved policy works effectively for small‐scale problems. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 287–304, 2016     

基于转业回报视角的我军高素质人力资本流失分析

从微观主体人力资源投资的角度来理解军队高素质人力资源的流失现象,以人力资本投资理论、经济学成本一效益理论和激励相容理论为基础,在Mincer工资方程的基础上建立转业回报方程,通过计算教育回报率和转业回报率来解释我军高素质人才缺失、高素质人才留不住的现况。为从实证角度分析转业回报率和教育回报率,提出相应的政策建议奠定了理论基础。     

有源诱饵弹对抗毫米波制导武器仿真分析

有源诱饵弹是对抗毫米波制导武器的一种重要手段。根据毫米波雷达制导导弹波束窄的特点,采用投放多枚诱饵弹以组成诱饵阵的对抗方法。初步建立了对抗过程仿真的数学模型,并通过该模型对对抗过程进行了仿真分析。分析表明,如果依据形势合理布放诱饵,将会对目标起到很好的保护作用。     

A partial characterization of the optimal ordering/rationing policy for a periodic review system with two demand classes and backordering

We consider a finite horizon periodic review, single product inventory system with a fixed setup cost and two stochastic demand classes that differ in their backordering costs. In each period, one must decide whether and how much to order, and how much demand of the lower class should be satisfied. We show that the optimal ordering policy can be characterized as a state dependent (s,S) policy, and the rationing structure is partially obtained based on the subconvexity of the cost function. We then propose a simple heuristic rationing policy, which is easy to implement and close to optimal for intensive numerical examples. We further study the case when the first demand class is deterministic and must be satisfied immediately. We show the optimality of the state dependent (s,S) ordering policy, and obtain additional rationing structural properties. Based on these properties, the optimal ordering and rationing policy for any state can be generated by finding the optimal policy of only a finite set of states, and for each state in this set, the optimal policy is obtained simply by choosing a policy from at most two alternatives. An efficient algorithm is then proposed. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2010     

基于本体的信息与信息空间及其代数结构

实现特定信息环境下基于信息组织的信息资源服务,需要对信息、信息空间有更合适的、形式化的描述。文章基于本体层次对信息、信息的运算、信息之间的关系以及信息空间给出了数学描述并对其代数结构进行了研究。从而为特定信息环境下的信息资源服务提供理论支撑。     

刍议GJB 1371与GJB 3837的关系

在新装备的研制过程中,需要有效地开展保障性分析工作,同时会产生大量的信息,GJB 3837便是为有效地存储这些信息而制定的标准。为明确GJB 3837与保障性分析工作之间的对应关系,本文对GJB 1371与GJB 3837进行了简要介绍,并对二者之间的对应关系展开研究,以期为GJB 1371和GJB 3837的工程化应用奠定基础。     

反舰导弹两种射击方式下捕捉概率及仿真

超视距攻击下,不同的射击方式对捕捉概率可能产生不同的影响.在不同射击方式误差机理分析的基础上,给出了超视距打击情况下两种不同射击方式的捕捉概率模型,在一定的数据设置情况下,进行了仿真分析,给出了两种不同射击方式下的对比分析.     

燃气轮机仿真软件构造方法综述

从方法论的角度综述了燃气轮机仿真软件的研究现状,分析了过程式方法和过程式模块化方法的不足,阐明采用面向对象方法的必要性,并对未来的发展方向作了初步探讨.