Interchange fee rate,merchant discount rate,and retail price in a credit card network: A game‐theoretic analysis

We consider two game‐theoretic settings to determine the optimal values of an issuer's interchange fee rate, an acquirer's merchant discount rate, and a merchant's retail price in a credit card network. In the first setting, we investigate a two‐stage game problem in which the issuer and the acquirer first negotiate the interchange fee rate, and the acquirer and the retailer then determine their merchant discount rate and retail price, respectively. In the second setting, motivated by the recent US bill “H.R. 2695,” we develop a three‐player cooperative game in which the issuer, the acquirer, and the merchant form a grand coalition and bargain over the interchange fee rate and the merchant discount rate. Following the cooperative game, the retailer makes its retail pricing decision. We derive both the Shapley value‐ and the nucleolus‐characterized, and globally‐optimal unique rates for the grand coalition. Comparing the two game settings, we find that the participation of the merchant in the negotiation process can result in the reduction of both rates. Moreover, the stability of the grand coalition in the cooperative game setting may require that the merchant should delegate the credit card business only to the issuer and the acquirer with sufficiently low operation costs. We also show that the grand coalition is more likely to be stable and the U.S. bill “H.R. 2695” is thus more effective, if the degree of division of labor in the credit card network is higher as the merchant, acquirer, and issuer are more specialized in the retailing, acquiring, and issuing operations, respectively. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2012     

基于差分和神经网络的同步辐射光源图像压缩方法

针对常见的图像无损压缩方法效果不佳问题,提出了一种基于图像差分和神经网络的同步辐射光源图像无损压缩方法。通过图像差分以减少图像序列内部的线性相关性,训练神经网络模型以学习图像序列内部的非线性相关性,得到预测概率分布,结合算术编码压缩。为加速预测和编码过程,将像素值按位分裂为两部分进行并行处理。基于上海同步辐射光源图像的测试表明,相较于便携式网络图形、JPEG2000和自由无损图像格式等,该方法可将压缩率提升20%以上,像素位分裂可以缩短30%的模型预测和编码时间。     

信息管理误失灰色补偿方法

在信息采集、信息管理、信息传递过程中,数据链出现空穴、误传或丢失等情况时,将影响信息采集传递的安全性与信息管理的有效性,是信息管理与使用中一个值得关注的问题,如何对数据列进行有效补偿则是解决该问题的关键.运用灰色理论与正交试验设计方法建立了信息链缺失补偿模型并给出了信息链空穴补偿优化准则.所给出的具体的补偿实例说明信息链空穴灰色生成与正交试验设计生成是一种极为有效的信息缺失补偿方法.     

Volume discount decisions: Wealth maximization or EOQ approach?

A recent paper finds that when volume discounts are available, in some cases, reliance on the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) model can induce purchasers to make wealth reducing decisions, and the Present Value (PV) approach should be preferred. While this finding is theoretically correct, the magnitudes of wealth reductions suggested by the paper's numerical examples seem to be questionable. Furthermore, the paper also finds that, in some other cases, a purchaser using the EOQ approach realizes a net increase in current wealth compared to a purchaser using the PV approach. Logic suggests that such a finding cannot be correct, since by its very definition, it is the PV approach that seeks to maximize the current wealth. We offer an alternative frame of comparison and a modified model to show that, under the paper's assumptions, the EOQ approach can never realize a net increase in current wealth compared to the current wealth generated by the PV approach. On the other hand, we also show that when typical values of the relevant parameters prevail, the additional costs imposed by the EOQ approach are not significant. Finally, we suggest that insofar as the PV approach requires greater administrative costs to implement, it may even be counterproductive to the goal of wealth maximization. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 45: 377–389, 1998     

新体制导航信号下I/Q幅相不一致对接收机测距零值的影响分析

随着现代化导航信号带宽的增大,由于可以大幅降低采样率,复信号采样的优势日趋明显。由于存在I/Q幅相误差,复信号采样对导航接收机伪距测量造成了一定影响。改进了信道非理想与I/Q幅相误差共同影响BPSK/QPSK信号零值测量的分析模型;在该模型基础上,推导得到了任意I/Q误差和信道非理想特性影响BOC信号伪距零值的模型;探讨了二者在频域抗干扰应用场景下引起的零值变化;理论分析与软件接收机仿真结果高度吻合,误差在1.5×10^-4码片内,证明了分析模型的精确性。该分析方法可用于对高性能导航接收机信道特性进行事先约束及筛选,以确保干扰场景下的零值变化满足要求。     

融合初值校准与二阶逼近的单星测频定位算法

为减小单星测频定位的误差,提出一种融合初值校准与二阶逼近的单星测频定位算法。该算法在卫星接收信号多普勒频移为零的时间点,通过测距获得卫星到定位目标的距离信息,利用距离信息修正轨道平面与定位目标的几何关系,为初值的选取提供校准手段;将校准的初值代入含二阶级数的定位方程泰勒展开式,通过较少次数的迭代得到定位目标的真实位置,从而降低定位的算法复杂度,提高定位精度。仿真结果表明,所提出的算法与多普勒单星定位算法相比,迭代次数和定位误差大幅度减小,其实现简单、计算量少、误差小,在单星定位研究领域具有较高的理论价值和实用价值。     

论影响亲社会行为的两个主要因素

良好的品德要从儿童抓起。亲社会行为的培养是儿童品德教育的重要内容 ,因此对亲社会行为的研究极为重要。价值取向、自我概念、自我意识、自我敏感性、自尊、自我反思、移情等因素对亲社会行为都有影响 ,而价值取向和自我概念是影响亲社会行为的两个主要因素。     

火炮动力后坐运动的数值模拟

设计了以少量火药为能源代替实弹射击的新型火炮动力后坐试验装置 ,进行了可供试验参考的数值模拟计算。给出了后坐试验装置的原理和结构 ,建立了后坐器的数学模型。结合后坐运动计算模型 ,进行了数值模拟 ,证明了运用动力后坐试验装置可以取得较为理想的效果     

平台式惯导系统初始对准最佳可观性分析

首先应用线性系统的奇异值分解理论对静基座初始对准的可观性及可观度进行了深入地分析.给出了不同奇异值下系统状态可观性状况的直方图,并且计算出不同状态组合时系统奇异值的大小及对可观性的影响.理论分析表明选取(△)N、(△)E、εE为不可观测时,系统的估计效果最好.其次采用卡尔曼滤波器对可观阵的秩为7的三种状态组合进行最优估计,仿真结果验证这种论断的正确性.最后从误差分析的角度阐述了这种论断的合理性.     

浅析唐朝军事行政法的借鉴价值

唐朝进行了大规模的军事立法活动,形成了较为完备的军事法律制度,其中军事行政法律制度在整个军事法律体系中占有相当重要的位置。虽然它没有现代军事行政法律制度完善,但作为当时世界上国力强大的王朝,在军事行政法制上仍然有值得借鉴的地方。