Return policy: Hassle‐free or your money‐back guarantee?

This article compares the profitability of two pervasively adopted return policies—money‐back guarantee and hassle‐free policies. In our model, a seller sells to consumers with heterogeneous valuations and hassle costs. Products are subject to quality risk, and product misfit can only be observed post‐purchase. While the hassle‐free policy is cost advantageous from the seller's viewpoint, a money‐back guarantee allows the seller to fine‐tune the consumer hassle on returning the product. Thus, when the two return policies lead to the same consumer behaviors, the hassle‐free policy dominates. Conversely, a money‐back guarantee can be more profitable even if on average, high‐valuation consumers experience a lower hassle cost than the low‐valuation ones. The optimal hassle cost can be higher when product quality gets improved; thus, it is not necessarily a perfect proxy or signal of the seller's quality. We further allow the seller to adopt a mixture of these policies, and identify the concrete operating regimes within which these return policies are optimal among more flexible policies. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 61: 403–417, 2014     

化工类实验室火灾成因与对策探讨

消防安全隐患是化工实验室存在的诸多安全隐患中最大的隐患,其危害性也最为严重。对化工类实验室的消防安全隐患进行分析,研究探讨化工类实验室防火安全管理措施,提高该类场所预防火灾的能力。     

试论屋顶简易建筑消防安全隐患的治理

结合西藏拉萨市屋顶简易建筑治理情况,分析研究了屋顶简易建筑消防安全特点和消防安全管理面临的困境,提出了屋顶简易建筑消防安全治理的措施。     

基于三角白化权函数的武器装备研制项目技术风险评估

针对武器装备研制项目技术风险评估问题,利用灰色理论中的三角白化权函数,建立了武器装备研制项目技术风险评估模型。最后,结合实例验证说明了该模型的可行性,在同类问题中亦具有一定的参考使用价值。     

中庭内步梯在火灾疏散中的应用探讨

对中庭内步梯在火灾情况下人员紧急疏散的使用进行了探讨,提出了使用水幕减弱火灾辐射危害的措施,并运用火灾危险分析方法进行了论述。     

基于排队论的油料供给最优化分析

通过有限源排队系统的理论,分析油料供给工作中在满足一定的可靠性要求下的最优设计与最优分配问题,同时结合计算机技术,提出了求数值解的方法。     

基于HHM-RFRM的实弹发射风险分析研究

实弹发射是复杂的系统性军事训练活动,在实施前要对其进行风险评估,实施的全过程中要进行风险管理,首要工作是运用科学方法进行风险分析.本文运用系统工程的思想,针对实弹发射这一复杂系统活动,识别得到环境、交通、技术、管理、人员、任务、装备、保障和通信这9类风险情景,进一步分析建立了实弹发射风险等级全息模型(HHM).在此基础...     

基于VPDN的污染源自动监控系统研究

建立污染源自动监控系统是环境监测的重要举措。阐述了VPDN技术及其优点,重点论述了基于VPDN的污染源自动监控系统,包括系统的基本思想、结构及功能和如何实现的问题。通过实际运行表明该系统运行稳定、操作方便,易于达到远程监控、实时报警、远程管理和长周期稳定运行的要求。     

停产雷达装备维修器材持续保障风险评估方法

针对停产雷达装备维修器材持续保障过程中存在的筹措断供问题,提出基于改进风险矩阵法和层次分析法相结合的风险评估方法。首先建立保障风险评估指标体系,然后采用改进的风险矩阵进行风险评估,利用采用层次分析法解决存在递归层次时风险因素的评估问题,最后得出装备器材持续保障风险的综合量化值,为提出保障风险规避策略提供数据依据。利用某型雷达器材保障风险评估案例进行数据分析,验证了该方法的有效性。     

Capacity investment decisions under risk aversion

This article studies the optimal capacity investment problem for a risk‐averse decision maker. The capacity can be either purchased or salvaged, whereas both involve a fixed cost and a proportional cost/revenue. We incorporate risk preference and use a consumption model to capture the decision maker's risk sensitivity in a multiperiod capacity investment model. We show that, in each period, capacity and consumption decisions can be separately determined. In addition, we characterize the structure of the optimal capacity strategy. When the parameters are stationary, we present certain conditions under which the optimal capacity strategy could be easily characterized by a static two‐sided (s, S) policy, whereby, the capacity is determined only at the beginning of period one, and held constant during the entire planning horizon. It is purchased up to B when the initial capacity is below b, salvaged down to Σ when it is above σ, and remains constant otherwise. Numerical tests are presented to investigate the impact of demand volatility on the optimal capacity strategy. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 218–235, 2016