THE EFFECTS OF THE WORLD DEFENSE INDUSTRY AND US MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL ON THE ISRAELI DEFENSE INDUSTRY: A DIFFERENTIATED PRODUCTS MODEL

This paper models the interactions between the defense industry market structure and the defense needs of Israel, the USA and Western Europe, which produce several heterogeneous defense goods. The model specifies that the defense industries of the US and Europe are ‘large’ while that of Israel is ‘small’. The US military aid to Israel is also an integral part of the model. The results show that net defense costs of Israel are minimal when the number of its defense firms is one. The model predicts that an increase in US military aid reduces Israel’s government expenditure, its defense industry’s profits and its net defense costs.     

The structure of the defense industry and the security needs of the country: a differentiated products model

This paper models the interactions between the defense needs of the USA and Western Europe, which produce several heterogeneous defense goods, and the defense industry market structure. The results show that net defense costs of the USA and Europe are lower when the number of defense firms in each arms‐producing country is small and when the world prices of the defense goods are high. The model predicts that the increase in world prices will crowd‐out countries in the developing world from the market for modern weapon systems and may force them to develop and use ‘cheap and dirty’ weapon systems.     

Estimating defence budget saving from disarmament: the United States’ case

Probing the technology in the production of US national defence by using a dynamic cost‐function model with adjustment costs, this paper evaluates the effect of reducing the level of national defence on the defence budget saving. Our inquiry involves estimating the defence production structure without output data for non‐market goods that are normally unavailable. Our findings include: (i) the United States behaves rationally to minimize cost in the production of national defence; (ii) the adjustment costs are larger in disarmament than in military build‐up; (iii) due to the adjustment costs peculiar to disarmament, the defence budget saving from disarmament appears small, but cutbacks allow great savings on the defence budget.     

最低价中标情况下的施工管理研究

最低价中标法作为国际上通行的建筑工程招投标方法,随着我国建筑市场的 发展和工程量清单计价制度的推行,已经具备其实施的客观条件。针对目前实施最低价中 标法工程施工阶段存在的问题,提出结合工程量清单计价从合同管理、保证金制度、工程保 险、质量管理等方面提出了解决的思路。     

Determination of burn‐in parameters and residual life for highly reliable products

Today, many products are designed and manufactured to function for a long period of time before they fail. Determining product reliability is a great challenge to manufacturers of highly reliable products with only a relatively short period of time available for internal life testing. In particular, it may be difficult to determine optimal burn‐in parameters and characterize the residual life distribution. A promising alternative is to use data on a quality characteristic (QC) whose degradation over time can be related to product failure. Typically, product failure corresponds to the first passage time of the degradation path beyond a critical value. If degradation paths can be modeled properly, one can predict failure time and determine the life distribution without actually observing failures. In this paper, we first use a Wiener process to describe the continuous degradation path of the quality characteristic of the product. A Wiener process allows nonconstant variance and nonzero correlation among data collected at different time points. We propose a decision rule for classifying a unit as normal or weak, and give an economic model for determining the optimal termination time and other parameters of a burn‐in test. Next, we propose a method for assessing the product's lifetime distribution of the passed units. The proposed methodologies are all based only on the product's initial observed degradation data. Finally, an example of an electronic product, namely contact image scanner (CIS), is used to illustrate the proposed procedure. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2003     

一种无人战斗机系统使用保障费用分析方法

基于无人战斗机系统在使用保障上的特点,通过对有人战斗机使用保障费用模型进行合理改造,使其能适用于无人战斗机的使用保障费用分析。经过改造的模型具有结构清晰、概念明确的特点。适合在飞机总体设计阶段用于全寿命周期的费用估算以及飞机的费效分析和综合优化设计。通过与有人战斗机的使用保障费用进行对比计算表明,无人战斗机系统的使用保障费用具有明显的经济优势。     

复合成本计算中合理设定复合元数问题研究

从合理性和科学性角度对复合成本计算过程中复合元数的设定进行了评价。运用模糊数学方法建立了评价矩阵,通过模糊合成使评价结果更加切合实际,解决了企业成本管理中复合元数判断的模糊性和不确定性问题,避免了复合成本计算过程中因复合元数设定不经济或简单化而出现的功能过剩或功能不足的现象出现。     

基于神经网络的特征结构提取

本文在详细讨论特征结构提取问题的能量函数表示的基础上,通过对该能量函数表示的适当变换和整理,高阶关联非线性连续时间神经网络被引入到特征结构的提取问题中。这种方法直观、明了,它将所要提取的特征结构与网络稳定时的输出直接对应起来,可对特征结构进行自适应跟踪、估计,这为特征结构的提取提出了一个新的方法。     

带有先验分布的Bayes统计抽样方案费用评价模型

以往在评价和比较几个统计抽样方案时,多从比较分析两种风险率入手,由于这种方法的局限性,往往不能得出满意的结论。本文利用Bayes方法,在给出先验分布及有关损失函数的条件下,从各种抽样方案的平均总损失入手比较几个可选方案的优良性。本文提供的与二项分布相对应的算法具有一般意义。示例所得结果也是令人满意的。     

分段线性凸费用网络流的两个算法

本文讨论了分段线性凸费用网络流问题,推广了线性费用网络流中的负回路方法和最小费用路方法,从而得到了求分段线性凸费用网络的最小费用流的两个算法。