Bayesian inference based on partial monitoring of components with applications to preventive system maintenance

Consider a binary, monotone system of n components. The assessment of the parameter vector, θ, of the joint distribution of the lifetimes of the components and hence of the reliability of the system is often difficult due to scarcity of data. It is therefore important to make use of all information in an efficient way. For instance, prior knowledge is often of importance and can indeed conveniently be incorporated by the Bayesian approach. It may also be important to continuously extract information from a system currently in operation. This may be useful both for decisions concerning the system in operation as well as for decisions improving the components or changing the design of similar new systems. As in Meilijson [12], life‐monitoring of some components and conditional life‐monitoring of some others is considered. In addition to data arising from this monitoring scheme, so‐called autopsy data are observed, if not censored. The probabilistic structure underlying this kind of data is described, and basic likelihood formulae are arrived at. A thorough discussion of an important aspect of this probabilistic structure, the inspection strategy, is given. Based on a version of this strategy a procedure for preventive system maintenance is developed and a detailed application to a network system presented. All the way a Bayesian approach to estimation of θ is applied. For the special case where components are conditionally independent given θ with exponentially distributed lifetimes it is shown that the weighted sum of products of generalized gamma distributions, as introduced in Gåsemyr and Natvig [7], is the conjugate prior for θ. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 48: 551–577, 2001.     

Patterns in spatial point locations: Local indicators of spatial association in a minefield with clutter

The problem of detecting a minefield in the presence of clutter can be abstracted to that of detecting a spatial pattern within a set of point locations. The point locations are superpositions of several patterns, one of which corresponds to mines. In contrast to previous articles that take a formal, model‐based approach, this article proposes a statistical methodology that is distinctly exploratory. Each point location is considered separately, and its contributions to a global measure of spatial distances between locations are featured. Different patterns and unusual points can be more easily identified on the new scale. Both minefield data and simulated point patterns demonstrate the power of the method. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Naval Research Logistics 48:333–347, 2001     

“九五”期间兵团中学教师继续教育研究

研究“九五”期间兵团中学教师继续教育培训的过程 ,探寻培训中存在的问题 ,梳理今后培训的基本思路 ,以切实提高培训的质量     

Testing or fault-finding for reliability growth: A missile destructive-test example

A new piece of equipment has been purchased in a lot of size m. Some of the items can be used in destructive testing before the item is put into use. Testing uncovers faults which can be removed from the remaining pieces of equipment in the lot. If t < m pieces of equipment are tested, then those that remain, m₁ = m − t, have reduced fault incidence and are more reliable than initially, but m₁ may be too small to be useful, or than is desirable. In this paper models are studied to address this question: given the lot size m, how to optimize by choice of t the effectiveness of the pieces of equipment remaining after the test. The models used are simplistic and illustrative; they can be straightforwardly improved. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 44: 623–637, 1997     

产品网络化协同开发系统信息处理模型研究

产品网络协同开发系统信息处理模型是现代制造企业从事产品开发、提高企业核心竞争力的关键。在分析产品网络化协同开发系统现状的基础上,阐明了产品网络化协同开发系统的基本内涵及实现方法。提出了基于输入、输出、知识、关系、方法和时间约束六个方面组成的产品网络化协同开发系统的信息处理统一模型;建立了一个面向产品开发全过程协同的信息流模型,构建了产品网络化协同开发平台信息流模型的软件结构,为制造企业建立产品网络协同开发平台,实现产品开发过程的信息化、科学化和规范化进行了有益的工作。     

飞行器动力学环境预示技术应用研究

动力学环境试验技术已被广泛应用 ,但动力学环境预示技术还没有得到很好的重视和发展。讨论了几种动力学环境预示方法的特点 ,着重研究了统计能量分析 ( SEA)方法的原理及其应用 ,并以某型号发动机长尾喷管舱为例 ,具体给出其工程分析估计过程     

The impact of exponential smoothing forecasts on the bullwhip effect

An important phenomenon often observed in supply chain management, known as the bullwhip effect, implies that demand variability increases as one moves up the supply chain, i.e., as one moves away from customer demand. In this paper we quantify this effect for simple, two‐stage, supply chains consisting of a single retailer and a single manufacturer. We demonstrate that the use of an exponential smoothing forecast by the retailer can cause the bullwhip effect and contrast these results with the increase in variability due to the use of a moving average forecast. We consider two types of demand processes, a correlated demand process and a demand process with a linear trend. We then discuss several important managerial insights that can be drawn from this research. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 47: 269–286, 2000     

采用随机几何工具的终端直通通信接入控制方法

针对现有具备终端直通（Device-to-Device, D2D）功能的蜂窝网络的干扰管理问题,提出一种新型的采用随机几何工具的D2D通信接入控制方法。利用随机过程理论以及随机几何工具建立模型分析邻近基站和D2D通信对蜂窝通信的影响,并推导蜂窝业务接入失败概率表达式。基于该表达式能够计算网络允许的最大D2D用户密度,辅助D2D通信接入控制实现干扰管理。仿真证明基于所提数值计算方法获得的估计结果与蒙特卡洛仿真结果相符,且通过合理限制D2D用户密度和D2D用户发射功率可满足指定的蜂窝业务接入失败概率要求。     

Optimal policies for stochastic clearing systems with time-dependent delay penalties

We study stochastic clearing systems with a discrete-time Markovian input process, and an output mechanism that intermittently and instantaneously clears the system partially or completely. The decision to clear the system depends on both quantities and delays of outstanding inputs. Clearing the system incurs a fixed cost, and outstanding inputs are charged a delay penalty, which is a general increasing function of the quantities and delays of individual inputs. By recording the quantities and delays of outstanding inputs in a sequence, we model the clearing system as a tree-structured Markov decision process over both a finite and infinite horizon. We show that the optimal clearing policies, under realistic conditions, are of the on-off type or the threshold type. Based on the characterization of the optimal policies, we develop efficient algorithms to compute parameters of the optimal policies for such complex clearing systems for the first time. We conduct a numerical analysis on the impact of the nonlinear delay penalty cost function, the comparison of the optimal policy and the classical hybrid policy (ie, quantity and age thresholds), and the impact of the state of the input process. Our experiments demonstrate that (a) the classical linear approximation of the cost function can lead to significant performance differences; (b) the classical hybrid policy may perform poorly (as compared to the optimal policies); and (c) the consideration of the state of the input process makes significant improvement in system performance.     

溅板式层板喷注单元燃烧特性数值分析

为了获得喷注单元结构参数对喷注器燃烧特性的影响规律,利用数值分析方法对单喷嘴溅板式层板喷注单元气-气燃烧特性进行研究,考察燃烧室特征长度及出口层喷嘴宽度对气氧/甲烷流动及燃烧特性的影响。在求解气-气燃烧流场方面,采用带化学反应的湍流N-S方程进行描述,其中化学动力学反应模型采用简化的单步9组分模型。研究结果表明:燃烧室特征长度的增大有利于特征速度效率的增加;该条件下采用溅板式层板喷注单元所对应的燃烧室特征长度约为600 mm。对比分析发现,出口层喷嘴宽度取0.15 mm时,水组分摩尔分数与热力计算值差别最大;当其值取1.05 mm时,燃烧室头部区域截面温度上升最快,取0.45 mm时上升最慢。总的来说,出口层喷嘴宽度取0.75 mm时,燃烧长度最短,燃烧效率最大。