Inventory management with advance capacity information

An important aspect of supply chain management is dealing with demand and supply uncertainty. The uncertainty of future supply can be reduced if a company is able to obtain advance capacity information (ACI) about future supply/production capacity availability from its supplier. We address a periodic‐review inventory system under stochastic demand and stochastic limited supply, for which ACI is available. We show that the optimal ordering policy is a state‐dependent base‐stock policy characterized by a base‐stock level that is a function of ACI. We establish a link with inventory models that use advance demand information (ADI) by developing a capacitated inventory system with ADI, and we show that equivalence can only be set under a very specific and restrictive assumption, implying that ADI insights will not necessarily hold in the ACI environment. Our numerical results reveal several managerial insights. In particular, we show that ACI is most beneficial when there is sufficient flexibility to react to anticipated demand and supply capacity mismatches. Further, most of the benefits can be achieved with only limited future visibility. We also show that the system parameters affecting the value of ACI interact in a complex way and therefore need to be considered in an integrated manner. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2011     

基于Linux/QT的火控系统实时故障诊断方法

针对某数字化火控系统实时故障检测与诊断问题,提出了一种基于对象式框架知识表示的火控系统实时故障诊断方法。该方法采用专家系统与实时进程通信,获取故障征兆,进行实时推理定位故障源。给出了诊断系统的一般架构,介绍故障诊断系统知识表示的形式化描述,实时推理、规则匹配算法和UDP进程通信协议。实际应用证明了这种方法的有效性和可扩展性。     

一类参数激励与强迫激励并存的非线性振动系统的分叉

本文用Ｌｉａｐｕｎｏｖ—Ｓｃｈｍｉｄｔ方法研究了同时受参数激励与强迫激励作用的非线性振动系统的亚谐分叉问题,用奇异性理论确定了等价意义下的分叉方程的形式,导出了必需的分叉系数,求出并且分析了１／２—１／２亚谐共振分叉方程的普适开折,画出了各个结构稳定域及分叉集上的响应图。     

SiCf/Si-O-C复合材料的抗氧化、抗热震性能研究

通过研究材料的氧化前后质量的改变和强度减少及氧化前后微观结构的变化,研究了先驱体转化法制备的SiCf/Si-O-C复合材料的抗氧化、抗热震性能。结果表明SiCf/Si-O-C复合材料具有良好的抗氧化、抗热震性能。对所得材料微观结构进行了分析讨论,发现界面结构的变化是影响SiCf/Si-O-C复合材料抗氧化、抗热震性能的主要原因。     

Capacity allocation to sales agents in a decentralized logistics network

Many logistics systems operate in a decentralized way, while most optimization models assume a centralized planner. One example of a decentralized system is in some sea cargo companies: sales agents, who share ship capacity on a network, independently accept cargo from their location and contribute to the revenue of the system. The central headquarters does not directly control the agents' decisions but can influence them through system design and incentives. In this paper, we model the firm's problem to determine the best capacity allocation to the agents such that system revenue is maximized. In the special case of a single‐route, we formulate the problem as a mixed integer program incorporating the optimal agent behavior. For the NP‐hard multiple‐route case, we propose several heuristics for the problem. Computational experiments show that the decentralized system generally performs worse when network capacity is tight and that the heuristics perform reasonably well. We show that the decentralized system may perform arbitrarily worse than the centralized system when the number of locations goes to infinity, although the choice of sales incentive impacts the performance. We develop an upper bound for the decentralized system, where the bound gives insight on the performance of the heuristics in large systems. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

Technical note: Worst‐case performance of power‐of‐two policies for serial inventory systems with incremental quantity discounts

This study presents power‐of‐two policies for a serial inventory system with constant demand rate and incremental quantity discounts at the most upstream stage. It is shown that an optimal solution is nested and follows a zero‐inventory ordering policy. To prove the effectiveness of power‐of‐two policies, a lower bound on the optimal cost is obtained. A policy that has a cost within 6% of the lower bound is developed for a fixed base planning period. For a variable base planning period, a 98% effective policy is provided. An extension is included for a system with price dependent holding costs. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

Estimation of average backorders for an assemble‐to‐order system with random batch demands through extreme statistics

We investigate inventory management for a large‐scale multi‐product, multi‐component Assemble‐to‐Order system with general random batch demands. Results from extreme statistics theory are applied in developing approximation schemes for a widely used performance measure, customer backorders. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

舰载火控系统的建模与仿真

探讨了建模与仿真技术在新型武器系统研制中的作用地位;介绍了WISE一体化建模／仿真开发环境及仿真软件,描述了新型舰载火控系统的建模与数字仿真方法,给出了采用分布交互式仿真(DIS)技术支持新型舰载火控系统进行效能评估的技术途径     

用CORBA技术构建分布对象应用系统

首先讨论了网络计算面临的问题和分布对象计算技术,然后详细讨论了分布对象计算标准——公共对象请求代理结构（ＣＯＲＢＡ）规范的体系和各个部分．最后,对基于ＣＯＲＢＡ的分布对象计算的优点及前景作了讨论．