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     

基于有限元法的脉冲负载下高弹联轴器轴向力计算方法

以应用于脉冲柴油机发电机组中的高弹联轴器为研究对象,利用CATIA建立高弹联轴器的三维模型导入到Hyper Mesh中进行有限元网格划分,再将其有限元模型导入ANSYS中进行仿真分析,模拟其橡胶块在脉冲负载作用下的动态性能,对高弹联轴器在柴油机输出扭矩和脉冲负载同时作用时产生的轴向力进行仿真计算。结果表明:高弹联轴器在该工况下产生的轴向力较大,并且橡胶块在受交变应力作用时产生多应力集中点。仿真结果与Rivlin经典理论计算结果有较好的一致性,可为消磁舰船动力装置、消磁电站发电机组等场合下的弹性联轴器的选型设计提供参考。     

基于四元联系数的非战争军事行动装备保障能力评价方法研究

针对非战争军事行动装备保障能力评价问题,综合运用能力模型和集对分析理论,在构建非战争军事行动装备保障能力评价指标体系基础上,建立非战争军事行动装备保障能力四元联系数评价模型,并示例说明该方法的应用．     

南宋钓鱼城城池防御初探

针对古代战争研究与当今国防建设缺乏关联的问题,首次就钓鱼城保卫战经典战例对我国现代国防建设的启示意义作了研究。分析钓鱼城城池选址"独"与"险"的地理关系、筑城布局内容和多层综合防御体系这三者对战争胜利的关键影响,提出在当前国防工程规划与建设中借鉴其成功经验的观点,并从工程宏观选址、多城池防御的联防体系及军民联合的防御模式等三方面就其经验和启示意义进行归纳与总结。     

Are non‐lethal weapons a viable military option to strengthen the hearts and minds approach in Afghanistan?

Commanders of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have repeatedly stressed the hearts and minds approach in Afghanistan, in saying that the human terrain is decisive for a successful outcome of the mission. Avoidance of civilian casualties is considered of strategic importance, and by nature highly dependent on the management of tactical level Escalation of Force (EoF) situations. Non‐lethal weapons (NLWs) are expected to enable tactical commanders to avoid innocent civilian casualties in such situations. This article considers a selected NLW on its potential to accomplish this requirement. It uses a defence technology assessment approach to analyse EoF situations experienced by Dutch ISAF forces in which the NLW is inserted. The analysis demonstrates that a range of contextual factors in the Afghanistan high‐risk environment tend to narrow down the window of opportunity for the NLW to help defuse the risk of unintended civil casualties.     

雷达干扰效能评估指标体系的构建方法

建立合理的干扰效能评估指标体系是实现雷达干扰效能综合评估的前提,首先分析了影响雷达干扰效能的要素,提出了一种由雷达受到干扰后的战术性能变化、干扰机主要战术性能参数和电磁环境因素建立雷达干扰效能评估指标集的方法。然后应用粗糙集属性约简算法对该指标集进行约简,删除了冗余属性,并对约简后的指标体系进行了有效性检验。仿真结果表明,该指标体系具有较好的完备性和独立性。     

A computation procedure for the exact solution of location-allocation problems with rectangular distances

A method is presented to locate and allocate p new facilities in relation to n existing facilities. Each of the n existing facilities has a requirement flow which must be supplied by the new facilities. Rectangular distances are assumed to exist between all facilities. The algorithm proceeds in two stages. In the first stage a set of all possible optimal new facility locations is determined by a set reduction algorithm. The resultant problem is shown to be equivalent to finding the p-median of a weighted connected graph. In the second stage the optimal locations and allocations are obtained by using a technique for solving the p-median problem.     

空战关键信息与战术规则提取算法

将粗糙集理论引入到空战研究中 ,提出了一种通过属性约简提取空战决策的关键信息和战术规则的算法 ,以便对空战过程中的冗余信息进行约简 ,提高决策实时性。通过一个空战战术选择示例对该算法进行了验证 ,结果表明 :在保证空战战术分类结果不变的情况下 ,该算法可提取出对空战决策起关键作用的信息以及最小简化战术规则。     

关于分形插值函数的积分

用反例说明在 [1 ,2 ]中关于分形插值函数的积分公式是错误的 ,并建立了关于分形插值函数积分的正确公式。     

Waiting time analysis for a queueing system with time‐limited service and exponential timer

We consider a single‐queue with exhaustive or gated time‐limited services and server vacations, in which the length of each service period at the queue is controlled by a timer, i.e., the server serves customers until the timer expires or the queue becomes empty, whichever occurs first, and then takes vacations. The customer whose service is interrupted due to the timer expiration may be attended according to nonpreemptive or preemptive service disciplines. For the M/G/1 exhaustive/gated time‐limited service queueing system with an exponential timer and four typical preemptive/nonpreemptive service disciplines, we derive the Laplace—Stieltjes transforms and the moment formulas for waiting times and sojourn times through a unified approach, and provide some new results for these time‐limited service disciplines. © John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 48: 638–651, 2001.