Optimal inventory and dynamic admission policies for a retailer of seasonal products with affiliate programs and drop‐shipping

This article investigates the optimal inventory and admission policies for a “Clicks‐and‐Bricks” retailer of seasonal products that, in addition to selling through its own physical and online stores, also sells through third‐party websites by means of affiliate programs. Through postings on partners' webpages, an affiliate program allows a retailer to attract customers who would otherwise be missed. However, this retailer needs to pay a commission for each sale that originates from the website operators participating in the program. The retailer may also refer online orders to other sources (such as distributors and manufacturers) for fulfillment through a drop‐shipping agreement and thus earns commissions. This would be an option when, for example, the inventories at the physical stores were running low. Therefore, during the selling horizon, the retailer needs to dynamically control the opening/closing of affiliate programs and decide on the fulfillment option for online orders. On the basis of a discrete‐time dynamic programming model, the optimal admission policy of the retailer is investigated in this paper, and the structural properties of the revenue function are characterized. Numerical examples are given to show the revenue impact of optimal admission control. The optimal initial stocking decisions at the physical stores are also studied. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 2009     

Zr基块体非晶合金屈服行为及屈服准则研究

为了明确块体非晶合金屈服行为与屈服准则的关系,对非晶合金屈服强度间相互关系以及试验中拉伸和压缩断裂面与最大剪应力作用的45°倾斜面的偏离角度进行分析,应用滑移线间断场理论和Mises屈服条件计算出拉伸颈缩断裂面与载荷轴夹角和块体非晶合金实验结果的一致性,利用Coulomb屈服条件计算出的单轴压缩断裂面倾斜角与实验结果相吻合,确定块体非晶合金在不同应力状态下遵循不同的屈服准则:在拉伸条件下该块体非晶合金遵循Mises屈服准则;在压缩条件下遵循Coulomb屈服准则。     

共享经济视域下的军事训练场地整合

军改以来,"军委管总、战区主战、军种主建"的格局打破了原有军事训练场地的建设、管理和使用模式,训练场地需求旺盛,缺口较大,急需构建适应新体制新机制的新型训练场地建设管理体系,满足训练需求。本文分析了当前军事训练场地建设管理中存在的问题,提出了基于共享经济模式整合军事训练场地资源的对策措施。     

基于内外子区域划分的高阶精度CFD程序异构并行算法

对计算流体力学(CFD)程序CNS提出一种Offload模式下基于内外子区域划分的异构并行算法,结合结构化网格下有限差分计算和四阶龙格库塔方法的特点,引入ghost网格点区域,设计了一种ghost区域收缩计算策略,显著降低了异构计算资源之间的数据传输开销,负载均衡时CPU端的计算与MPI通信完全和加速器端的计算重叠,提高了异构协同并行性。推导了保证计算正确性的ghost区域的参数,分析了负载均衡的条件。在“CPU(Intel Haswell Xeon E5-2670 12 cores ×2)＋加速器(Xeon Phi 7120A ×2)”的服务器上测得该算法较直接将任务子块整体迁至加速器端计算的异构算法性能平均提升5.9倍,较MPI/OpenMP两级并行算法使用24个纯CPU核的性能,该算法使用单加速器时加速1.27倍,使用双加速器加速1.45倍。讨论和分析了性能瓶颈与存在的问题。     

An eikonal equation based path planning method using polygon decomposition and curve evolution

Path planning is a key technique of autonomous navigation for robots, and the velocity field is an important part. Constructing velocity field in a complex workspace is still challenging. In this paper, an inner normal guided segmentation algorithm in a complex polygon is proposed to decompose the complex workspace in this paper. The artificial potential field model based on probability theory is then used to calculate the potential field of the decomposed workspace, and the velocity field is obtained by utilizing the potential field of this workspace. Path optimization is implemented by curve evolution, during which the internal force generated in the smoothing process of the initial path by a mean filter and the external force is obtained from the gradient of the workspace potential field. The parameter selection principle is deduced by analyzing the influence of several parameters on the path length and smoothness. Simulation results show that the designed polygon decomposition algorithm can effectively segment complex workspace and that the path optimization algorithm can shorten and smoothen paths.     

鳍对拖式吊舱推进器水动力性能的影响

为考察鳍对拖式吊舱推进器水动力性能的影响,用基于速度势的面元法建立了吊舱推进器水动力性能计算的数学模型,对附鳍的吊舱式推进器的定常及非定常水动力性能进行了预报.螺旋桨和吊舱及鳍之间的相互影响通过迭代计算来处理.采用计算较为简便的关于扰动速度势的基本积分微分方程,并采用双曲面形状的面元以消除面元间的缝隙.在桨叶随边满足压力Kutta条件,用Yanagizawa方法求得物体表面的速度分布.计算了无鳍、单鳍和双鳍拖式吊舱推进器的水动力性能,计算结果表明,鳍会产生推力,使得双鳍时整个推进器的水动力性能最好,单鳍次之,无鳍最低.     

装备综合保障大纲的制定

根据装备综合保障大纲要求达到的目的和所要完成的任务,提出了装备综合保障军用标准的体系表,建议并拟定了“大纲”的框架结构.     

minimax问题的广义共轭向量法

本文按照共轭向量法的理论,针对非奇异对称矩阵提出了广义共轭向量的概念,并论述了它的三个重要性质(线性独立性、可寻驻点和可扩展性)。在此基础上,构造了极小极大(minimax)问题的广义共轭向量法。理论分析表明,该算法具有二次终止性质,且在每一维搜索时具有确定的寻优特征(求极小或求极大)。该算法为用拉格朗日乘子法求解数学规划提供了一个可能的途径。计算实例表明该算法是有效的。     

Adaptive phasefield modelling of crack propagation in orthotropic functionally graded materials

In this work, we extend the recently proposed adaptive phase field method to model fracture in orthotropic functionally graded materials (FGMs). A recovery type error indicator combined with quadtree decomposition is employed for adaptive mesh refinement. The proposed approach is capable of capturing the fracture process with a localized mesh refinement that provides notable gains in computational efficiency. The implementation is validated against experimental data and other nu-merical experiments on orthotropic materials with different material orientations. The results reveal an increase in the stiffness and the maximum force with increasing material orientation angle. The study is then extended to the analysis of orthotropic FGMs. It is observed that, if the gradation in fracture properties is neglected, the material gradient plays a secondary role, with the fracture behaviour being dominated by the orthotropy of the material. However, when the toughness increases along the crack propagation path, a substantial gain in fracture resistance is observed.     

Did the Russian General Staff experiment with free play during VOSTOK-2018?

The VOSTOK-2018 strategic field training exercise (FTX) that took place in mid-September 2018 rehearsed forces’ integration and combat preparedness across multiple strategic directions. Regarding combat readiness, the research question outlined in this paper relates to whether the General Staff experimented with mission-command - a key component of Russia’s modern military thinking. The answer is clearly no: operational creative manoeuvring hardly featured during the VOSTOK-2018 drills for clearly identified reasons. At the systemic level, little room was left for initiatives since the drills focused on implementing and testing command and control (C2) systems. At the structural level, VOSTOK-2018 was not oriented towards mission-command but ‘mission-control’ and streamlining centralised decision-making processes down to the tactical level. At the symbolic level, free play was not exercised due to the participation of China in the drills, and the necessity to impress Chinese military observers.