Decomposing inventory routing problems with approximate value functions

We present a time decomposition for inventory routing problems. The methodology is based on valuing inventory with a concave piecewise linear function and then combining solutions to single‐period subproblems using dynamic programming techniques. Computational experiments show that the resulting value function accurately captures the inventory's value, and solving the multiperiod problem as a sequence of single‐period subproblems drastically decreases computational time without sacrificing solution quality. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2010     

军事行政区主轴线空间节点秩序构建

结合营区规划实例,以军事行政区主轴线为研究对象,在分析现阶段军事行政区主轴线空间节点设计中比较集中存在的几个问题基础上,提出了构建军事行政区主轴线空间节点秩序及应遵循的一般原则,并以常见的入口区—广场区—办公区—训练区的轴线构成为例,对军事行政区主轴线各空间节点的秩序构建进行了空间、尺度及人性化等设计方法的探讨,为推动营区规划的正规化、现代化建设提供一些思路和方法。     

一类随机非单调二元算子的随机不动点定理

利用Mann迭代技巧,讨论了不具有紧性条件的随机非单调二元算子方程随机不动点的存在唯一性,并给出了迭代序列收敛于解的误差估计,所得结果是某些已知结果的本质改进和推广。     

一类偶数阶非线性中立型偏微分方程组的振动判据

讨论一类偶数阶非线性中立型偏微分方程组的振动性,利用Green公式和边值条件将这类非线性中立型偏微分方程组的振动问题转化为中立型微分不等式不存在最终正解的问题,并利用最终正解的定义和微分不等式方法,获得了该类方程组在两类不同边值条件下所有解振动的若干充分性条件。所得结果为解决物理学、生物学、工程学等学科领域中的实际问题提供了数学理论基础。     

非专业英语听说能力提高的教学策略

听说能力是语言综合能力的重要体现,本应受到高度的重视,然而在传统的大学公共英语教学中,“轻听说、重读写”的教学模式造就了一大批读写尚可但张口即结舌的英语习得者。所幸,当前大学英语的教和学双方都开始注重对语言习得读、说、听、写、译5种技能全方位的提高。国家CET考试委员会从1996年初起也正式启用听写等新题型。但近几次的四、六级统考结果统计表明,对于大多数考生来说,听写部分仍是难以突破的关口。针对这一现状,结合多年的教学和阅卷经验,对提高英语听说能力的教学策略进行了探讨。     

基于鲁棒性分析的ELECTRE-III参数推断方法

鉴于鲁棒性分析近几年被期望成为解决多属性决策中信息不完备的有效工具,提出了一种基于经典规划的鲁棒性分析框架。就ELECTRE-Ⅲ的参数给出了不完全信息条件下的鲁棒性判别条件和鲁棒性设计步骤。分析计算结果表明这种方法是实用有效的,为ELECTRE-Ⅲ和其他经典多属性决策方法参数的设置提供了新的思路,同时对其他多属性决策方法也有适用性。     

美军采办项目的采办策略分析

采办策略是美军针对具体采办项目强制规定的覆盖整个项目寿命周期的纲领性文件,对于保障在资源限制条件下达成项目采办目标具有重要的意义。本文首先分析了采办策略的概念,随后研究了采办策略的主要内容、与采办管理周期的匹配要求,最后提出了对我军装备采办改革的启示。     

Quarrelsome committees in US defense acquisition: the KC-X case

When the US Air Force set out to acquire a new aerial tanker (the KC-X), two highly suitable alternatives were offered. What could have been a short and simple source selection turned into a prolonged embarrassment. The original selection of 100 leased KC-767s was made in May 2003. But the KC-46 is expected to be operational in 2017 – more than a decade later. Our primary purpose here is to narrate and explain key events in the KC-X program. We search for useful paradigms, based in part on the US Government being better viewed as a quarrelsome committee than a monopsonist. In addition, we consider what this case might tell us about the US defense acquisition system.     

Governmental Re-organization in Counterinsurgency Context: Foreign Policy Program Transfer and Operation Switchback in South Vietnam

Foreign policy program transfer, the shifting of implementation responsibility for a foreign policy program from one organization to another, is a ubiquitous, yet under-studied, counterinsurgency phenomenon. This article conceptually develops program transfer as an important object of study; analyzes, using archival sources, an empirical case of program transfer, Operation Switchback, drawn from US counterinsurgency practice in South Vietnam; and formulates two preliminary theoretical claims related to program transfer: (1) transferred programs will tend to be altered in accordance with the characteristics of the gaining organization, and (2) program transfer may act as a signal or early-warning indicator of foreign policy change.     

Reliability and mean residual life functions of coherent systems in an active redundancy

In this article, the reliability and the mean residual life (MRL) functions of a system with active redundancies at the component and system levels are investigated. In active redundancy at the component level, the original and redundant components are working together and lifetime of the system is determined by the maximum of lifetime of the original components and their spares. In the active redundancy at the system level, the system has a spare, and the original and redundant systems work together. The lifetime of such a system is then the maximum of lifetimes of the system and its spare. The lifetimes of the original component and the spare are assumed to be dependent random variables. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 64: 19–28, 2017