Revenue management with aircraft reassignment flexibility

A well‐studied problem in airline revenue management is the optimal allocation of seat inventory among different fare‐classes, given a capacity for the flight and a demand distribution for each class. In practice, capacity on a flight does not have to be fixed; airlines can exercise some flexibility on the supply side by swapping aircraft of different capacities between flights as partial booking information is gathered. This provides the airline with the capability to more effectively match their supply and demand. In this paper, we study the seat inventory control problem considering the aircraft swapping option. For theoretical and practical purposes, we restrict our attention to the class of booking limit policies. Our analytical results demonstrate that booking limits considering the swapping option can be considerably different from those under fixed capacity. We also show that principles on the relationship between the optimal booking limits and demand characteristics (size and risk) developed for the fixed‐capacity problem no longer hold when swapping is an option. We develop new principles and insights on how demand characteristics affect the optimal booking limits under the swapping possibility. We also develop an easy to implement heuristic for determining the booking limits under the swapping option and show, through a numerical study, that the heuristic generates revenues close to those under the optimal booking limits. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2011     

A stochastic approximation algorithm to compute bid prices for joint capacity allocation and overbooking over an airline network

In this article, we develop a stochastic approximation algorithm to find good bid price policies for the joint capacity allocation and overbooking problem over an airline network. Our approach is based on visualizing the total expected profit as a function of the bid prices and searching for a good set of bid prices by using the stochastic gradients of the total expected profit function. We show that the total expected profit function that we use is differentiable with respect to the bid prices and derive a simple expression that can be used to compute its stochastic gradients. We show that the iterates of our stochastic approximation algorithm converge to a stationary point of the total expected profit function with probability 1. Our computational experiments indicate that the bid prices computed by our approach perform significantly better than those computed by standard benchmark strategies and the performance of our approach is relatively insensitive to the frequency with which we recompute the bid prices over the planning horizon. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2011     

挣值管理在装备寿命周期费用控制中的应用

在阐述挣值法的概念以及评价指标体系的基础上,建立了挣值管理在装备寿命周期费用控制中的三维模型,并将进度维中的各个里程碑与寿命周期过程结合起来,应用作业成本法对各个里程碑计划价值进行求解,最后举例说明,挣值法能够对装备寿命周期费用进行有效的预测和控制。     

AUV分布式自主控制与使命管理方法

提出了一种AUV(Autonomous Underwater Vehicle)自主控制的分布式体系结构与使命管理方法.将自主控制系统分为若干采用慎思/反应混合模式的智能体.每个智能体不仅可以独立地处理事件和进行决策,还可以与其他智能体进行合作来完成复杂的AUV任务.基于该体系结构,研究了AUV使命管理的动态协作机制.利...     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

‘Ser Eleno’: Insurgent identity formation in the ELN

In conflict studies, identity has been posited as an explanatory factor of the resilience of insurgencies. This article focuses on the identity formation of the National Liberation Army (ELN), a leftist insurgency group in Colombia. As a Marxist–Leninist organisation, the ELN aims to overcome capitalism. In their perception, this is possible via the transformation of the individual into a ‘collective personality’. Along the dimensions of ‘content’ and ‘contestation’, we will demonstrate the mechanisms they impose for such identity formation. Identity, as we will argue, is a main factor in explaining why people participate in this insurgency and thereby enhance its resilience.     

一种面向大规模HLA仿真的并行区域匹配算法

HLA仿真中,数据分发管理实现基于值的过滤,可以有效减少盟员接收冗余数据的可能性和网络中的数据流量。大规模HLA仿真系统在仿真推进中需要大量的区域匹配计算以维护数据分发管理的正确性。现有的区域匹配算法大多需要对所有区域进行匹配计算,造成了大量计算资源的浪费;同时,主要基于串行匹配思想,难以充分发挥多核平台的并行计算优势。针对现有区域匹配算法的局限性,提出了一种面向大规模HLA仿真的并行区域匹配算法,该算法能够实现对一次仿真推进中多个改变区域的并行匹配计算,同时在匹配计算中采用基于移动相交的基本思想,利用区域范围移动前后的历史信息,将匹配限定在移动区间之内,减少了大量的无关计算。理论分析与实验结果表明该算法尤其适合基于多核计算平台构建大规模分布式仿真的应用需求。     

新型城镇化建设的消防工作对策探讨——以平潭综合实验区为例

根据对福建省新型城镇化建设的实验地平潭综合实验区消防工作的调研,以消防建设及消防安全面临的现状为切入点,结合新型城镇化建设下消防工作存在的突出问题进行分析,从消防专项规划、消防基础建设、消防宣传教育和消防服务管理等方面提出了一些新思路与对策.     

构建土地资源管理专业人才培养方案与体系的探讨

本文以石河子大学理学院新审批土地资源管理专业为例,根据土地科学的学科性质和土地管理实际工作对人才规格的需求,结合兵团实际,主要从人才培养目标定位、课程体系构建,师资队伍培养、实践教学体系及实践教学平台搭建等四个方面对该专业人才培养方案与体系进行了初步的探索与实践。     

Chalk vs Guns: Some economic consequences of an announced French scenario 1

This paper explores whether defense contractors' manufacturing technology advantages over purely commercial firms might be associated with differences in their workforce and organizational practices. It uses unique original data collected specifically to test workforce and organizational complementarities in implementation of advanced manufacturing technology in small manufacturers. Findings are that defense contractors: (1) have higher and deeper rates of advanced manufacturing technology use; (2) have greater perceived success in achieving manufacturing goals; (3) are more likely practitioners across a diverse spectrum of advanced workforce and organizational practices. Then, (4) econometrically, the defense contractors' higher reported levels of achievement in implementing advanced manufacturing technologies are positively associated with those organizational and workforce practice differences.