On allocating one active redundancy to coherent systems with dependent and heterogeneous components' lifetimes

This article studies coherent systems of heterogenous and statistically dependent components' lifetimes. We present a sufficient and necessary condition for a stochastically longer system lifetime resulted by allocating a single active redundancy. For exchangeable components' lifetimes, allocating the redundancy to the component with more minimal path sets is proved to produce a more reliable system, and for systems with stochastic arrangement increasing components' lifetimes and symmetric structure with respect to two components, allocating the redundancy to the weaker one brings forth a larger reliability. Several numerical examples are presented to illustrate the theoretical results as well. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 335–345, 2016     

Stochastic regret minimization for revenue management problems with nonstationary demands

We study an admission control model in revenue management with nonstationary and correlated demands over a finite discrete time horizon. The arrival probabilities are updated by current available information, that is, past customer arrivals and some other exogenous information. We develop a regret‐based framework, which measures the difference in revenue between a clairvoyant optimal policy that has access to all realizations of randomness a priori and a given feasible policy which does not have access to this future information. This regret minimization framework better spells out the trade‐offs of each accept/reject decision. We proceed using the lens of approximation algorithms to devise a conceptually simple regret‐parity policy. We show the proposed policy achieves 2‐approximation of the optimal policy in terms of total regret for a two‐class problem, and then extend our results to a multiclass problem with a fairness constraint. Our goal in this article is to make progress toward understanding the marriage between stochastic regret minimization and approximation algorithms in the realm of revenue management and dynamic resource allocation. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 433–448, 2016     

基于大脑本征信号的光学功能成像技术

对脑功能内源光学成像技术的研究与进展情况进行了较系统的论述。首先对内源光学成像技术的基本原理进行了介绍 ,然后对该技术进行了分类 ,并将内源光学成像技术与其他脑功能成像技术作了比较分析 ,最后对内源光学成像技术的研究发展及其应用前景指出了一些可能的方向     

一种支持高效并发访问的移动对象索引

针对移动对象当前及未来位置索引不能有效支持多用户并发访问的问题,提出了一种支持高效并发访问的移动对象索引CS2B-tree(Concurrent Space-filling curve enabled Cache Sensitive B+-tree)。该索引结合了Bx-tree和CSB+-tree的特点,因而能够支持对移动对象进行预测查询且具有缓存敏感特性。重点研究了一种针对CS2B-tree的两层锁并发访问机制,特别是设计了一种网格锁备忘录结构,使得索引能够支持多任务并发执行。基于并发访问机制,分别提出了CS2B-tree的并发更新算法及并发预测范围查询算法。实验表明,相对于Bx-tree,CS2B-tree的并发访问的吞吐量提高了15.1%,响应时间减少了14.9%。