The impact of component commonality on composite assembly policies

Assemble in Advance (AIA) policy reduces assembly cost due to advance planning, while Assemble to Order (ATO) policy eliminates assembly of excessive (more than demanded) units. The tradeoffs between the two policies have been studied in the past for single product environments. Moreover, it was shown that it is beneficial to employ AIA and ATO simultaneously. In this article, we study the employment of such a composite assembly policy in a multiproduct environment with component commonality. When common components are used, ATO may also enable us to benefit from the risk pooling effect. We provide important managerial insights such as: the multiperiod problem is myopic and changes in inventory levels due to the use of common components, and demonstrate the potential profit increase compared to other policies.© 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

Optimal burn‐in procedure for periodically inspected systems

Burn‐in is a widely used method to improve the quality of products or systems after they have been produced. In this paper, we study burn‐in procedure for a system that is maintained under periodic inspection and perfect repair policy. Assuming that the underlying lifetime distribution of a system has an initially decreasing and/or eventually increasing failure rate function, we derive upper and lower bounds for the optimal burn‐in time, which maximizes the system availability. Furthermore, adopting an age replacement policy, we derive upper and lower bounds for the optimal age parameter of the replacement policy for each fixed burn‐in time and a uniform upper bound for the optimal burn‐in time given the age replacement policy. These results can be used to reduce the numerical work for determining both optimal burn‐in time and optimal replacement policy. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

Modeling and analysis of a mixed‐model assembly line with stochastic operation times

We consider a mixed‐model assembly line (MMAL) comprised a set of workstations and a conveyor. The workstations are arranged in a serial configuration. The conveyor moves at a constant speed along the workstations. Initial units belonging to different models are successively fed onto the conveyor, and they are moved by the conveyor to pass through the workstations to gradually generate final products. All assembling tasks are manually performed with operation times to be stochastic. An important performance measure of MMALs is overload times that refer to uncompleted operations for operators within their work zones. This paper establishes a method to analyze the expected overload times for MMALs with stochastic operation times. The operation processes of operators form discrete time nonhomogeneous Markov processes with continuous state spaces. For a given daily production schedule, the expected overload times involve in analyzing the Markov processes for finite horizon. Based on some important properties of the performance measure, we propose an efficient approach for calculating the expected overload times. Numerical computations show that the results are very satisfactory. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

Technical note: Worst‐case performance of power‐of‐two policies for serial inventory systems with incremental quantity discounts

This study presents power‐of‐two policies for a serial inventory system with constant demand rate and incremental quantity discounts at the most upstream stage. It is shown that an optimal solution is nested and follows a zero‐inventory ordering policy. To prove the effectiveness of power‐of‐two policies, a lower bound on the optimal cost is obtained. A policy that has a cost within 6% of the lower bound is developed for a fixed base planning period. For a variable base planning period, a 98% effective policy is provided. An extension is included for a system with price dependent holding costs. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

一种用于潜艇多传感器水下信息相关的算法

潜艇多传感器信息相关问题,是潜艇水下信息融合中的一个重要课题。利用统计技术,通过设置粗、细判决门限对潜艇多传感器信息进行了互相关检验研究,给出了相关检验算法。仿真结果表明该算法的有效性与实用性     

基因遗传算法在三维数据场造型中的应用

将基因遗传算法应用于三维数据场的造型研究之中,提出了遗传三角剖分算法.针对三维三角剖分的特殊性,提出了虚拟交叉算子和三角变异算子,能够确保在遗传进化过程中,解群中的每一个串始终代表一个合法的三角剖分.     

电液伺服系统的模糊神经网络自适应控制

针对电液伺服控制系统中存在的非线性影响,常规PID控制难以取得良好的控制效果,采用模糊神经网络自适应控制,通过BP算法改变模糊隶属函数的形状及模糊规则的中心值,实验结果表明该方法能有效地跟踪电液位置伺服系统。     

主维对矩阵运算性能的影响

随着计算机体系结构的发展,高速缓存（ｃａｃｈｅ）的引入,分块方法成为矩阵计算中性能优化的主要方法,而矩阵主维对分块算法的性能影响很大。本文分析了矩阵主维影响性能的原因以及如何选取主维来改善性能,并与拷贝方法进行了比较。最后用矩阵乘法和ＬＵ分解进行了试算,取得了满意的结果     

谈算法研究

算法是计算机程序设计的核心。本文结合实际应用,通过研究算法所取得的成效,说明算法研究的必要性和重要作用。     

一种混合事件仿真调度算法

针对既含有离散事件,又含有连续事件的高炮防空仿真系统提出了一种混合事件仿真调度算法。通过引入绝对仿真时钟和相对仿真时钟,来完成混合事件仿真调度,该算法简化了事件与活动处理的复杂性。