Impact of tax reduction policies on consumer purchase of new automobiles: An analytical investigation with real data‐based experiments

We investigate and compare the impact of the tax reduction policies implemented in the United States and China to stimulate consumer purchase of new automobiles and improve manufacturers' profits. The U.S. policy provides each qualifying consumer with a federal income tax deduction on state and local sales and excise taxes paid on the purchase price (up to a cutoff level), whereas the Chinese policy reduces the vehicle sales tax rate for consumers. We observe that these policy designs are consistent with the tax management system and the economic environment in the respective country. We analytically determine the effects of the two tax reduction policies on the automobile sales and the manufacturer's and the retailer's profits. Numerical examples are then used to provide insights on the importance of certain factors that influence the effects of the two policies. Finally, a numerical experiment with sensitivity analysis based on real data is conducted to compare the merits and characteristics of the two policies under comparable conditions. We find that the U.S. policy is better than the Chinese policy in stimulating the sales of high‐end automobiles, whereas the Chinese policy is better than the U.S. policy in improving the sales of low‐end automobiles. The U.S. policy is slightly more effective in increasing the profitability of the automobile supply chain; but, in general, the Chinese policy is more cost effective. The methodology developed herein can be used to evaluate other tax reduction policies such as those related to the purchase of energy‐saving vehicles and to serve as a decision model to guide the choice of alternative tax reduction policies. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 61: 577–598, 2014     

The single and multi‐item transshipment problem with fixed transshipment costs

This article deals with supply chain systems in which lateral transshipments are allowed. For a system with two retailers facing stochastic demand, we relax the assumption of negligible fixed transshipment costs, thus, extending existing results for the single‐item case and introducing a new model with multiple items. The goal is to determine optimal transshipment and replenishment policies, such that the total centralized expected profit of both retailers is maximized. For the single‐item problem with fixed transshipment costs, we develop optimality conditions, analyze the expected profit function, and identify the optimal solution. We extend our analysis to multiple items with joint fixed transshipment costs, a problem that has not been investigated previously in the literature, and show how the optimality conditions may be extended for any number of items. Due to the complexity involved in solving these conditions, we suggest a simple heuristic based on the single‐item results. Finally, we conduct a numerical study that provides managerial insights on the solutions obtained in various settings and demonstrates that the suggested heuristic performs very well. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 61: 637–664, 2014     

化工园区远程供水系统的应用研究

化工园区一直是大型和超大型火灾的高发地,而这些地方一旦发生火灾,很难在短时间内扑灭,这就需要灭火现场有充足的水源供灭火设备使用。在化工园区火灾案例分析基础上,对远程供水系统作了简要介绍,结合安徽八一化工厂案例,对远程供水系统在具体应用中水源选取、流量选择等内容进行了分析,并分析了输水过程中的水压损失,为远程供水系统在化工园区的选择和应用提供了理论帮助。     

大空间建筑消防给水系统的优化研究

大空间建筑存在火灾危险性较大、消防员施救灭火困难等诸多问题,这对大空间建筑消防给水系统的设计提出了很高的要求,而随着现代建筑水平的日益提高,大空间建筑的个性化设计又给消防给水系统的设计增加了一定的难度。从研究常用的大空间建筑消防给水系统入手,分析当前大空间建筑消防给水系统常见的一些问题,并从三个方面对大空间建筑消防给水系统的设计优化提出可行性建议,以期对大空间建筑消防给水系统的设计优化有所帮助。     

Monitoring the market or the salesperson? The value of information in a multilayer supply chain

We study a supply chain in which a manufacturer relies on a salesperson to sell the products to the consumers. The sales outcome is determined by a random market condition and the salesperson's service level, both of which are privately observed by the salesperson. Apart from them, there are two types of resellers: a knowledgeable reseller observes the market condition, whereas a diligent reseller can monitor the service level. While delegating to a reseller enhances information acquisition, it may also result in double marginalization and inefficiency. We identify several operating regimes in which double marginalization can be eliminated via simple contracts and establish the benefit of monitoring the salesperson over monitoring the market. Our dominance result is not prone to our model characteristics regarding the complementarity of market condition and sales effort, the relative importance of adverse selection and moral hazard, and the contract form. We then generalize our model and re‐establish the dominance result in the presence of reseller's risk aversion or private monitoring expertise. We also quantify the performance gaps among different selling schemes under various scenarios. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2011     

载有时变电流细螺绕环的涡旋电场

根据涡旋电场叠加原理,计算了载有时变电流细螺绕环激发的涡旋电场的场强,其结果与文献[4]的有关结果完全一致,从而进一步验证了涡旋电场叠加原理的正确性。在此基础上,经过分析得出了载有时变电流细螺绕环涡旋电场的分布情况。     

Inducing coordination in supply chains through linear reward schemes

Decentralized decision‐making in supply chain management is quite common, and often inevitable, due to the magnitude of the chain, its geographical dispersion, and the number of agents that play a role in it. But, decentralized decision‐making is known to result in inefficient Nash equilibrium outcomes, and optimal outcomes that maximize the sum of the utilities of all agents need not be Nash equilibria. In this paper we demonstrate through several examples of supply chain models how linear reward/penalty schemes can be implemented so that a given optimal solution becomes a Nash equilibrium. The examples represent both vertical and horizontal coordination issues. The techniques we employ build on a general framework for the use of linear reward/penalty schemes to induce stability in given optimal solutions and should be useful to other multi‐agent operations management settings. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2006     

静止观测站下机动目标的推广卡尔曼角度跟踪算法

采用"当前"统计模型,提出了静止观测站下机动目标的推广卡尔曼角度跟踪算法,实现了对目标的角度跟踪和预测,并对此算法进行了Monte-Carlo计算机仿真.通过分析目标角度的误差均值与误差均方值,表明此算法有较好的角度跟踪与预测能力.     

基于供应链管理的战时装备供应保障业务流程重组

从战时装备供应链管理的要素和相互关系出发,结合我军实际,提出了基于供应链的战时装备供应保障业务流程重组过程,并对相关方法进行了讨论,旨在使战时所需装备以可预见的方式快速、安全、准确地送抵到作战部队。     

Ag2O 添加的YBa2 Cu3O7-δ超导材料的超导性能

用固态反应法按分子式ＹＢａ２Ｃｕ２．７Ａｇ０．３Ｏ７－δ（简称ＹＢＣＡＯ）制备了样品，利用Ｘ射线衍射，Ｒ－Ｔ曲线及扫描电镜ＳＥＭ研究了Ａｇ对于ＹＢＣＯ超导性能的影响。实验结果表明：晶粒得以细化，ＹＢＣＯ超导性能的稳定性有所增强。本文对结果进行了讨论。