Optimal timing of switches between product sales for sports and entertainment tickets

Like airlines and hotels, sports teams and entertainment venues can benefit from revenue management efforts for their ticket sales. Teams and entertainment venues usually offer bundles of tickets early in their selling horizon and put single‐event tickets on sale at a later date; these organizations must determine the best time to offer individual tickets because both types of ticket sales consume the same fixed inventory. We model the optimal a priori timing decision for a seller with a fixed number of identical tickets to switch from selling the tickets as fixed bundles to individual tickets to maximize the revenue realized before the start of the performance season. We assume that bundle and single‐ticket customers each arrive according to independent, nonhomogeneous Markovian death processes with a linear death rate that can vary over time and that the benefit from selling a ticket in a package is higher than from selling the ticket individually. We characterize the circumstances in which it is optimal for the seller to practice mixed bundling and when the seller should only sell bundles or individual tickets, and we establish comparative statics for the optimal timing decision for the special case of constant customer arrival rates. We extend our analytical results to find the optimal time for offering two groups of tickets with high and low demand. Finally, we apply the timing model to a data set obtained from the sports industry. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2008     

火箭弹防静电短路卡抗静电性能实验研究

通过实验研究了火箭弹系统在安装防静电短路卡前后静态电阻的变化 ,提出了利用脉冲电流发生器测定安装防静电短路卡后系统动态电阻的方法。研究表明 ,安装防静电短路卡后 ,系统动态电阻很小 (小于30mΩ) ,火箭弹抗静电性能明显提高     

行星变速箱换档过程动态仿真研究

从传动系行星排传递单元和构件出发,建立了N自由度行星变速箱运动学数学模型,并运用该模型对三自由度行星变速箱进行了换档过程的动态仿真。     

“管理科学与工程“专业硕士研究生培养与实践

针对学院“管理科学与工程专业”研究生的培养,详细讨论了该学科的定位和培养目标;结合军队特点,论证了培养方向以及相应培养计划的制订;结合培养过程中教学与科研紧密结合的特点,介绍了人才培养与学术、科研并重所取得的实际成果以及在职研究生培养的若干经验;说明了围绕学科建设在加强学术队伍和教学基础建设方面进行的主要工作;并对目前存在的一些具体问题进行了探讨。     

Strategic capacity decision‐making in a stochastic manufacturing environment using real‐time approximate dynamic programming

In this study, we illustrate a real‐time approximate dynamic programming (RTADP) method for solving multistage capacity decision problems in a stochastic manufacturing environment, by using an exemplary three‐stage manufacturing system with recycle. The system is a moderate size queuing network, which experiences stochastic variations in demand and product yield. The dynamic capacity decision problem is formulated as a Markov decision process (MDP). The proposed RTADP method starts with a set of heuristics and learns a superior quality solution by interacting with the stochastic system via simulation. The curse‐of‐dimensionality associated with DP methods is alleviated by the adoption of several notions including “evolving set of relevant states,” for which the value function table is built and updated, “adaptive action set” for keeping track of attractive action candidates, and “nonparametric k nearest neighbor averager” for value function approximation. The performance of the learned solution is evaluated against (1) an “ideal” solution derived using a mixed integer programming (MIP) formulation, which assumes full knowledge of future realized values of the stochastic variables (2) a myopic heuristic solution, and (3) a sample path based rolling horizon MIP solution. The policy learned through the RTADP method turned out to be superior to polices of 2 and 3. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 2010     

Competing with channel partners: Supply chain conflict when retailers introduce store brands

Private‐label products are of increasing importance in many retail categories. While national‐brand products are designed by the manufacturer and sold by the retailer, the positioning of store‐brand products is under the complete control of the retailer. We consider a scenario where products differ on a performance quality dimension and we analyze how retailer–manufacturer interactions in product positioning are affected by the introduction of a private‐label product. Specifically, we consider a national‐brand manufacturer who determines the quality of its product as well the product's wholesale price charged to the retailer. Given the national‐brand quality and wholesale price, the retailer then decides the quality level of its store brand and sets the retail prices for both products. We find that a manufacturer can derive substantial benefits from considering a retailer's store‐brand introduction when determining the national brand's quality and wholesale price. If the retailer has a significant cost disadvantage in producing high‐quality products, the manufacturer does not need to adjust the quality of the national‐brand product, but he should offer a wholesale price discount to ensure its distribution through the retailer. If the retailer is competitive in providing products of high‐quality, the manufacturer should reduce this wholesale price discount and increase the national‐brand quality to mitigate competition. Interestingly, we find the retailer has incentive to announce a store‐brand introduction to induce the manufacturer's consideration of these plans in determining the national‐brand product quality and wholesale price. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2010     

基于装备演化规律的C4ISR需求生成模式研究

针对C4ISR需求生成的系统性问题,提出基于武器装备演化规律的C4ISR需求生成模式。根据武器装备在作战、系统、技术三个层面的演变规律,从任务模糊性、结构复杂性、技术不确定性三个维度划分目标武器装备,提出与演变规律对应的、逐层递进的C4ISR需求研究模式——复制、发现和创造,提供了解决C4ISR需求精确性问题、正确性问题和前瞻性问题的途径。实例表明,采用该模式能够系统地生成C4ISR需求。     

面向作战任务的作战系统冲突检测与消解研究

以作战任务为中心,动态集成作战系统是当前军事领域研究的新课题,从多个作战任务的时间冲突和作战系统状态能力有限性出发,研究作战系统在执行作战任务过程中存在冲突的问题,给出冲突规则的形式化描述,提出了冲突检测与消解的算法,最后通过实例对算法进行了验证。     

基于QFD方法的作战仿真需求管理模型

针对作战仿真缺乏有效的需求管理方法和模型的问题,通过改进质量功能配置(QFD)方法,建立了适合作战仿真需求管理的需求屋模型,将需求和功能之间的关系进行量化,使用多个向量来反映需求的实现状态,并以光学成像侦查卫星仿真系统为算例进行了详细说明。该模型有助于控制仿真活动的进度、费用和性能,能有效提高仿真管理者的工作效率。     

高校学生公寓思想政治教育问题与对策

近年来,高等教育逐渐普及,党中央日益重视对高校学生思想政治教育工作的开展。各大高校积极响应党的号召,正努力建设具有社会主义新时代的特色校园文化。在高校中学生公寓逐步被大家认为是学生走向生活的第一社会、第二家乡、接受教育的第三课堂。因此学生公寓成为进行思想政治教育、建设优良学风校风的新的重要场所。目前,越来越多的教育工作者重视学生公寓的育人工作,随着高校学生公寓思想政治教育功能的逐渐增强,一些教育管理问题也显现出来。探讨高校学生公寓思想政治教育中所遇到的问题以及相应的对策成为学生教育管理研究的重要课题。