Supplier‐buyer contracting: Asymmetric cost information and cutoff level policy for buyer participation

We consider the problem of designing a contract to maximize the supplier's profit in a one‐supplier–one‐buyer relationship for a short‐life‐cycle product. Demand for the finished product is stochastic and price‐sensitive, and only its probability distribution is known when the supply contract is written. When the supplier has complete information on the marginal cost of the buyer, we show that several simple contracts can induce the buyer to choose order quantity that attains the single firm profit maximizing solution, resulting in the maximum possible profit for the supplier. When the marginal cost of the buyer is private information, we show that it is no longer possible to achieve the single firm solution. In this case, the optimal order quantity is always smaller while the optimal sale price of the finished product is higher than the single firm solution. The supplier's profit is lowered while that of the buyer is improved. Moreover, a buyer who has a lower marginal cost will extract more profit from the supplier. Under the optimal contract, the supplier employs a cutoff level policy on the buyer's marginal cost to determine whether the buyer should be induced to sign the contract. We characterize the optimal cutoff level and show how it depends on the parameters of the problem. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 48: 41–64, 2001     

寿命试验持续时间的预测

工程界中诸多电子元器件的寿命都可以看作或近似看作是服从指数分布的,只有经寿命试验掌握各类电子元器件寿命的分布情况,才能对整个电子系统的可靠度有较充分的认识,从而对整个电子系统中的电子设备进行合理布局,优化控制,使其在实际应用中最大程度地发挥其作用。分别给出服从单参数指数分布的样本在寿命试验的早期结果上预测寿命试验的总持续时间的精确与近似方法的证明,并对两种预测方法在不同情况下的预测结果进行比较。     

亚音速轴流风扇静转子相互作用线谱噪声预报

静转子相互作用线谱噪声是亚音速轴流风扇主要噪声源之一,快速预报该噪声对风扇设计初期的叶片选型和参数设计具有重要意义.因此在叶栅响应函数理论的基础上考虑静转子叶片的相互作用,采用叶片经验尾流模型模拟转子尾流,推导得到静转子叶栅相互作用线谱辐射声功率半经验半理论计算公式.通过与NASA已有的试验模型和计算模型结果对比,验证...     

武装直升机微光电视瞄准原理分析

主要就某型武装直升机加装微光电视瞄准系统后,在分析了该系统的关键硬件组成、软件设计、微光电视图像信号的增强技术、控制器设计和信号交联的基础上,研究了夜视设备与机载武器的兼容性问题。即:如何与机载瞄准具进行匹配实现对目标的跟踪瞄准。     

基于MDA的HLA系统开发流程与框架设计

HLA作为IEEE认定的分布式仿真标准,随着在军事、民用等仿真领域的广泛运用,其自身的模型重用性、互操作性等不强的弱点逐渐暴露出来,越来越不能满足大型复杂仿真系统的需要。将MDA方法引入HLA仿真系统设计中,尝试用MDA的模型思想对HLA系统进行开发,提升HLA的模型重用性和互操作性。对MDA在HLA系统中各种模型的设计和表述方式进行了分析研究,提出了一个基于MDA开发HLA仿真系统的开发流程,建立了一个基本开发框架,从软件开发的角度提高了系统的开发效率。     

舰载集装箱武器设备的基座倾斜修正

为了在民用集装箱船上快速安装集装箱式模块化武器设备,快速形成战斗力,同时保证武器设备使用精度和可靠性,必须对安装的武器设备的基座水平进行检测并加以修正.通过对影响基座水平度变化因素的分析,结合集装箱船的特点,提出了利用平台罗经安装平台和电子差分水平仪测量基座倾斜度,并对测量值进行多项式拟舍得出基座倾斜修正量的方法.这种方法在实际应用中取得了良好的效果,满足战时快速安装,快捷调试的要求,并能确保武器系统的战术技术指标.     

军事信息系统的互操作性研究*

为了正确理解和准确评测军事信息系统的互操作性,分析比较了军事信息系统互操作性的不同定义和内涵,讨论了军事信息系统的互操作性分析方法,探讨了军事信息系统互操作性建模方法,分析了互操作性与系统安全脆弱性之间的关系,给出了军事信息系统互操作性研究的几点建议.     

Capacity expansion under a service‐level constraint for uncertain demand with lead times

For a service provider facing stochastic demand growth, expansion lead times and economies of scale complicate the expansion timing and sizing decisions. We formulate a model to minimize the infinite horizon expected discounted expansion cost under a service‐level constraint. The service level is defined as the proportion of demand over an expansion cycle that is satisfied by available capacity. For demand that follows a geometric Brownian motion process, we impose a stationary policy under which expansions are triggered by a fixed ratio of demand to the capacity position, i.e., the capacity that will be available when any current expansion project is completed, and each expansion increases capacity by the same proportion. The risk of capacity shortage during a cycle is estimated analytically using the value of an up‐and‐out partial barrier call option. A cutting plane procedure identifies the optimal values of the two expansion policy parameters simultaneously. Numerical instances illustrate that if demand grows slowly with low volatility and the expansion lead times are short, then it is optimal to delay the start of expansion beyond when demand exceeds the capacity position. Delays in initiating expansions are coupled with larger expansion sizes. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2009     

4电平S类数字功放的电平合成策略

通过增加量化电平,Delta-Sigma调制器输出序列能够获得更好的调制性能。但在S类数字功放中,受限于开关功放的实现结构,多电平Delta-Sigma调制器输出脉冲序列无法直接驱动开关功放,需采用由多个开关功放单元构成的多电平开关功放。针对2比特Delta-Sigma调制器输出序列,分析了电平合成策略对4电平S类数字功放性能的影响,提出了两种优化的电平合成策略。理论分析和仿真结果表明,采用合适的电平合成策略,4电平S类数字功放可以获得更优的输出性能,尤其在输出功率回退状态下,电平合成策略对功放性能的影响更为显著。     

改进遗传算法在传声器阵列优化中的应用

规则平面阵列因其结构周期性,在进行波束综合时存在主瓣宽、旁瓣电平高等问题。对此,提出一种基于改进遗传算法的阵列优化方法。设计平面栅格传声器阵列,以满足阵元间距的要求,并构造以主瓣宽度为约束条件、以全局旁瓣电平为适应度的目标函数,对常规遗传算法进行改进,采取个体间自由交叉、随机的阵元数量强制变异的策略来增大种群的搜索范围。通过仿真,得到多个优化阵列,与几种规则平面阵列相比,在不同的信噪比输入下,经过改进遗传算法优化得到的随机阵列均有更好的表现。而相比于几种常规的优化算法,改进的遗传算法具有更强的搜索能力,得到数量更多、性能更优的随机阵列,由此证明了所提方法的可行性。