Economic ordering decisions with market choice flexibility

Standard approaches to classical inventory control problems treat satisfying a predefined demand level as a constraint. In many practical contexts, however, total demand is comprised of separate demands from different markets or customers. It is not always clear that constraining a producer to satisfy all markets is an optimal approach. Since the inventory‐related cost of an item depends on total demand volume, no clear method exists for determining a market's profitability a priori, based simply on per unit revenue and cost. Moreover, capacity constraints often limit a producer's ability to meet all demands. This paper presents models to address economic ordering decisions when a producer can choose whether to satisfy multiple markets. These models result in a set of nonlinear binary integer programming problems that, in the uncapacitated case, lend themselves to efficient solution due to their special structure. The capacitated versions can be cast as nonlinear knapsack problems, for which we propose a heuristic solution approach that is asymptotically optimal in the number of markets. The models generalize the classical EOQ and EPQ problems and lead to interesting optimization problems with intuitively appealing solution properties and interesting implications for inventory and pricing management. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2004.     

Close Encounters of the Tribal Kind: the Implementation of Co-option as a Tool for De-escalation of Conflict – The Case of the Netherlands in Afghanistan's Uruzgan Province

Abstract

In contemporary counter-insurgency campaigns de-escalation is typically achieved by obtaining the local population's collaboration. The rationale underlying this approach is that such collaboration spawns control over the population and therefore weakens the insurgent's position. This article seeks to understand how this approach is practised in the reality of contemporary counter-insurgency warfare. In Iraq as well as Afghanistan counter-insurgents were confronted with fragmented indigenous societies in which the various local segments were dominated by local power-holders. Consequently, obtaining the local population's collaboration required co-option of these agents. As such a strategy of co-option is a highly localized approach, this article focuses on Afghanistan's Uruzgan province and analyzes the implementation of co-option by the Netherlands' Task Force Uruzgan (TFU), which operated there from 2006 to 2010. The analysis discusses how the counter-insurgents obtained a profound understanding of Uruzgan's societal landscape and how co-option of local power-holders became part of the counter-insurgency routine. In the end, co-option was successfully implemented as TFU even succeeded in obtaining the collaboration of previously marginalized elements of the population. However, as the methods employed for co-option were mainly of a persuasive nature, the TFU co-option strategy was less effective in containing the influence of notorious spoilers. Thus this case study provides an insight into the dynamics and limitations of co-option as a tool for de-escalation in contemporary counter-insurgency warfare.     

Priority queue with customer upgrades

This article is concerned with a general multi‐class multi‐server priority queueing system with customer priority upgrades. The queueing system has various applications in inventory control, call centers operations, and health care management. Through a novel design of Lyapunov functions, and using matrix‐analytic methods, sufficient conditions for the queueing system to be stable or instable are obtained. Bounds on the queue length process are obtained by a sample path method, with the help of an auxiliary queueing system. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2012     

基于UDVR的低压配电线路雷击电压跌落治理仿真

采用分相控制的UDVR主电路结构,利用瞬时波形比较法,基于三角波比较的delta增量逆变技术,建立了UDVR的PSCAD／EMTDC仿真模型,解决了低压配电网线路遭受雷击、绝缘子闪络等引发的单相接地故障在线路重合闸期间引发的电压跌落问题,保证了敏感负荷在此期间的持续供电的电能质量．仿真结果表明：模型建立正确,控制方法可行．     

SINS/DR组合导航系统可观测性研究

对SINS/DR组合导航系统的误差方程进行了介绍。将陀螺漂移、加速度计零偏和里程仪刻度系数误差扩展为卡尔曼滤波器的状态,建立了19维状态的组合导航滤波模型。采用分段线性定常系统(PWCS)分析了载车在各个不同运动特性下SINS/DR组合导航系统的可观测矩阵;利用奇异值分解(SVD)分析法定量地分析了SINS/DR导航系统的可观测度。通过系统仿真预测了位置误差、姿态误差和速度误差的滤波效果,仿真结果表明,位置误差、姿态误差和速度误差的估计效果较好。     

基于agent的多传感器管理原型系统研究

近年来,基于agent的分布式智能系统已成功应用于众多领域。将多agent技术应用于多传感器管理领域研究,以开发多传感器智能管理的多agent系统,提出了其原型系统的基本框架和系统实现途径及方法,其中着重研究了融合agent与传感器agent的原型系统结构、基于多a-gent理论的传感器管理问题分布式任务分解与控制问题以及agent之间的协调合作问题。原型系统的研究,为实际应用系统的研制开发提供了理论指导和方法依据。     

一种基于UML/OCL的软件测试方法

根据UML/OCL和建模环境提供的软件模型信息,以一个武器装备管理信息系统的装备入库顺序图为例,在分析UML/OCL顺序图的语法和对象间的交互信息的基础上产生测试场景,提供了一种基于UML/OCL的面向对象的软件测试方法,并提出测试自动化的设想,对软件测试有一定的借鉴作用。     

C4ISR/M&S互操作HLA仿真设施

基于仿真互操作标准组织(Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization,SISO)C4ISR/M&S互操作技术参考模型和高层体系结构(High Level Architecture,HLA),C4ISR/M&S互操作HLA仿真设施为架构仿真系统运行体系提出了面向方面框架(Aspect Oriented Framework,AOF)和应用服务平台的技术.AOF能控制C4ISR/M&S互操作所引起的仿真系统结构复杂化,应用服务平台则能丰富仿真系统的运行环境,仿真设施可作为仿真系统通用运行体系的基础组件,支持复杂互操作系统开发.     

某型鱼雷尾追式弹道设计与仿真

主要介绍了基于MATLAB/Simulink和Delphi两种途径的鱼雷尾追式弹道的设计与仿真方法.首先给出鱼雷导引系统的数学模型,然后介绍如何应用Simulink建立系统的仿真模型并进行仿真计算,并使用Delphi语言进行了仿真,最后给出相应的仿真结果和分析.Simulink的仿真方法克服了其他传统编程语言如Delphi仿真时繁杂、难度高、周期长的缺点,使动态系统的仿真变得容易、直观、迅捷.     

Shock-induced reaction behaviors of functionally graded reactive material

In this paper, the ballistic impact experiments, including impact test chamber and impact double-spaced plates, were conducted to study the reaction behaviors of a novel functionally graded reactive material (FGRM), which was composed of polytetrafluoroethylene/aluminum (PTFE/Al) and PTFE/Al/bismuth trioxide (Bi₂O₃). The experiments showed that the impact direction of the FGRM had a significant effect on the reaction. With the same impact velocity, when the first impact material was PTFE/Al/Bi₂O₃, compared with first impact material PTFE/Al, the FGRM induced higher overpressure in the test chamber and larger damaged area of double-spaced plates. The theoretical model, which considered the shock wave generation and propagation, the effect of the shock wave on reaction efficiency, and penetration behaviors, was developed to analyze the reaction behaviors of the FGRM. The model predicted first impact material of the FGRM with a higher shock impedance was conducive to the reaction of reactive materials. The conclusion of this study provides significant information about the design and application of reactive materials.