Optimal pricing for a short life‐cycle product when customer price‐sensitivity varies over time

Technology products often experience a life‐cycle demand pattern that resembles a diffusion process, with weak demand in the beginning and the end of the life cycle and high demand intensity in between. The customer price‐sensitivity also changes over the life cycle of the product. We study the prespecified pricing decision for a product that exhibits such demand characteristics. In particular, we determine the optimal set of discrete prices and the times to switch from one price to another, when a limited number of price changes are allowed. Our study shows that the optimal prices and switching times show interesting patterns that depend on the product's demand pattern and the change in the customers' price sensitivity over the life cycle of the product. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2012     

The Obama administration's phased-adaptive architecture: technological,operational and political issues

In 2009, the Obama administration announced a new missile defense strategy, termed a phased-adaptive architecture (PAA) focused primarily on countering the growing threat from theater ballistic missiles. The success of this strategy is predicated on the rapid development and fielding of successive increments of defensive capability in a manner adapted to the specific requirements for missile defenses in different regions of the world. The administration is committed to building a European regional missile defense system, the European PAA or EPAA between now and 2020. The first elements of the EPAA were deployed in late 2011. However, much progress is still required in order to reach the goals set for the PAA. This article addresses the technological, operational and political issues confronting the Obama administration in its efforts to make the PAA a reality.     

The Chinese and Asian impact on Russian nuclear policy

Asia, where nuclear powers already interact (including North Korea), exerts a growing influence on the thinking and policy underlying Russia's current and future nuclear (and overall defense) posture. China's rise is forcing Russia into a greater reliance on strategic offensive weapons and tactical nuclear weapons. These in turn will reinforce its opposition to US missile defenses, not only in Europe but also in Asia. Russia must now entertain the possibility of nuclear use in regional conflicts that would otherwise remain purely conventional. It cannot be postulated blindly that nuclear weapons serve no discernible purpose other than to deter nuclear attacks by other nuclear powers. The strategic equation in Asia and in the Russian Far East convincingly demonstrates the falsity of this approach. Nuclear weapons will be the essential component of Russia's regional defense policy if not of its overall policies – and this also includes contingencies in Europe.     

基于变异离散粒子群的协同空战攻击决策算法

为了提高智能协同空战攻击决策算法性能,将变异策略引入到DPSO(Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization)协同空战攻击决策算法中,提出了一种新的基于变异离散粒子群(Mutation Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization,MDPSO)的协同空战攻击决策算法。基于典型空战想定背景,仿真验证了算法的有效性。采用对比实验方法,基于准确性、可靠性和快速性等关键性能指标,分析比较了基于MDPSO协同空战攻击决策算法与多种智能决策算法,验证了基于MDPSO的协同空战攻击决策算法有着较好的综合性能。     

水下潜器自导搜索策略仿真平台设计与应用

根据研究实际需求,本文基于作战能力评估理论对水下潜器自导搜索策略仿真平台进行了开发设计,并结合建立的多指标评估体系和相应的评估方法,借助均匀设计法,将其成功应用于水下潜器自导搜索策略的设计优化中。文中首先分析了仿真平台的系统需求,进而确定了其总体构架,并针对自导搜索策略研究的特点确定了相应的人机交互界面。最后给出了进行自导搜索策略仿真优化的基本思路和方法,并通过水下潜器最优自导搜索策略方案仿真研究的实例表明,本文设计的仿真平台和研究方法不仅完全能够满足水下潜器的自导搜索策略仿真研究需求,还能有效节省科研成本,具有重要的工程应用价值。     

建模仿真主计划及其关键技术

综述了建模仿真主计划 (MSMP)的目的和内容 ,着重阐述该计划中的公共技术框架 ,分析该计划对军事领域内建模仿真活动的影响 ,并对其中某些关键技术问题提出了解决思路或方法     

Optimal control of an M/G/1 queue with impatient priority customers

An optimal operating policy is characterized for the infinite‐horizon average‐cost case of a single server queueing control problem. The server may be turned on at arrival epochs or off at departure epochs. Two classes of customers, each of them arriving according to an independent Poisson processes, are considered. An arriving 1‐customer enters the system if the server is turned on upon his arrival, or if the server is on and idle. In the former case, the 1‐customer is selected for service ahead of those customers waiting in the system; otherwise he leaves the system immediately. 2‐Customers remain in the system until they complete their service requirements. Under a linear cost structure, this paper shows that a stationary optimal policy exists such that either (1) leaves the server on at all times, or (2) turns the server off when the system is empty. In the latter case, we show that the stationary optimal policy is a threshold strategy, this feature being commonplace in most of priority queueing systems and inventory models. However, the optimal policy in our model is determined by two thresholds instead of one. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 48: 201–209, 2001     

离散变结构系统的组合控制策略研究

对离散变结构控制系统的趋近律方法进行研究,提出了4种组合控制策略,它们可以明显改善系统的动态性能,并给出应用例子加以验证．     

遥感图像自动配准的串行与并行策略研究

面对数据量呈指数增长的全球遥感图像,研究快速、有效、高精度的自动图像配准算法成为遥感领域迫切需要解决的问题。综述了遥感图像自动配准算法的研究现状和关键技术,且从新的角度分类总结了已有算法的特点及适用情况,并给出了综合的解决方案;同时研究并提出了三种新的并行策略,获得了较好的实验结论。由于算法采用粗粒度的数据并行方法,因此可扩展性和可移植性较好,无论在理论上还是在实践上都能为实际的遥感应用提供有益的指导和借鉴。最后提出了有待进一步研究的问题。     

协调发展是邓小平非均衡发展战略的完善和创新

非均衡发展战略是邓小平经济发展理论的重要组成部分。先富带后富的指导思想 ,先沿海后内陆的战略布置以及“三步走”的战略目标 ,在实践中取得了巨大成功 ,有力的推动了我国经济的快速发展。现阶段 ,针对地区之间、城乡之间收入差距拉大等现状 ,采取协调发展战略 ,是对非均衡发展战略的完善和发展 ,是新时期经济社会发展的客观需要