基于XML的诊断信息模型描述

利用XML语言对诊断信息模型进行描述,初步建立了诊断信息模型整体框架的XML Schema,并在专门开发工具XML Spy中得到实现,同时对基于XML的信息模型描述进行了简要的应用说明,验证了模型描述的有效性。     

基于相关性模型的舰船装备测试性分析与建模

为了提高舰船装备的综合诊断能力,在舰船设计、研制阶段就必须进行装备测试性设计工作。为此,根据舰船装备测试性要求,对装备进行了故障模式影响分析,确定了装备在设计和制造过程中所有可能的故障模式,以及每一故障模式的原因和影响,据此对装备功能和结构进行了划分。然后,利用相关性模型对舰船装备进行测试性分析与建模,建立了舰船装备组成单元的相关性图示模型、数学模型,并运用考虑可靠性和费用的优选方法,建立了舰船装备诊断树,得到舰船装备的测试方案。算例分析表明:该研究可有效提高舰船装备测试的效率,提升测试的经济性。     

变速箱体声辐射规律

研究了变速箱声源的声辐射规律;论证了坦克变速箱内的故障信息能由箱体的声信号辐射出来。     

专家系统与测试技术相结合的诊断维护系统

本文介绍的诊断维护系统ＩＴＭＤＭＳ将专家系统技术与传统的测试知识相结合。该系统包括两类知识：浅层知识和深层知识,知识用一阶谓词表示。推理过程分三步完成：（１）浅层推理;（２）深层推理;（３）浅层推理。知识维护手段使系统的知识在使用中不断完善。该系统的框架可适用于任意复杂的数字系统的诊断维护。     

CSCW技术在装备远程维修支持信息系统中的应用

CSCW技术的应用领域非常广泛,就CSCW的系统模型、体系结构进行了探讨,并在此基础上对CSCW技术在装备远程维修支持信息系统中的应用进行了研究。     

基于D矩阵的舰船电子装备综合诊断方法

针对舰船电子装备综合诊断实现要求,提出一种基于故障-测试依赖性关系(D)矩阵的综合诊断方法,利用同一D矩阵分别完成对舰船电子装备的测试性分析评估、测试诊断需求分配、诊断测试序列生成和诊断信息的共享,实现舰船电子装备综合诊断各过程诊断信息模型的一致.该方法已在某舰载电子装备综合诊断实现中得到验证和应用.     

基于非独立测试的诊断策略优化生成

诊断策略优化设计是测试性设计中的一项重要内容.实际中的测试彼此间并非独立,即测试费用依赖于测试的先后顺序,针对这一问题,提出将测试划分成不同的测试模式,规定当一个测试序列中存在模式变换时必须考虑附加的转换费用.建立了同时考虑测试费用和模式转换费用启发式评估函数,并基于该启发式评估函数设计了近似最优的搜索算法,应用案例验证了本算法.试验表明该方法有效地解决了非独立测试的诊断策略优化生成问题.     

Service design at diagnostic service centers

We study a service design problem in diagnostic service centers, call centers that provide medical advice to patients over the phone about what the appropriate course of action is, based on the caller's symptoms. Due to the tension between increased diagnostic accuracy and the increase in waiting times more in‐depth service requires, managers face a difficult decision in determining the optimal service depth to guide the diagnostic process. The specific problem we consider models the situation when the capacity (staffing level) at the center is fixed, and when the callers have both congestion‐ and noncongestion‐related costs relating to their call. We develop a queueing model incorporating these features and find that the optimal service depth can take one of two different structures, depending on factors such as the nurses' skill level and the maximum potential demand. Sensitivity analyses of the two optimal structures show that they are quite different. In some situations, it may (or may not) be optimal for the manager to try to expand the demand at the center, and increasing skill level may (or may not) increase congestion. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2012     

Evaluating appointment postponement in scheduling patients at a diagnostic clinic

Diagnostic clinics are among healthcare facilities that suffer from long waiting times which can worsen medical outcomes and increase patient no-shows. Reducing waiting times without significant capital investments is a challenging task. We tackle this challenge by proposing a new appointment scheduling policy that does not require significant investments for diagnostic clinics. The clinic in our study serves outpatients, inpatients, and emergency patients. Emergency patients must be seen on arrival, and inpatients must be given next day appointments. Outpatients, however, can be given later appointments. The proposed policy takes advantage of this by allowing the postponement of the acceptance of appointment requests from outpatients. The appointment scheduling process is modeled as a two-stage stochastic programming problem where a portion of the clinic capacity is allocated to inpatients and emergency patients in the first stage. In the second stage, outpatients are scheduled based on their priority classes. After a detailed analysis of the solutions obtained from the two-stage stochastic model, we develop a simple, non-anticipative policy for patient scheduling. We evaluate the performance of this proposed, easy-to-implement policy in a simulation study which shows significant improvements in outpatient indirect waiting times.     

Appointment scheduling at a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic using stochastic programming

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the problem of constructing an appointment template for scheduling patients at a specific type of multidisciplinary outpatient clinic called an integrated practice unit (IPU). The focus is on developing and solving a stochastic optimization model for a back pain IPU in the face of random arrivals, an uncertain patient mix, and variable service times. The deterministic version of the problem is modeled as a mixed integer program with the objective of minimizing a weighted combination of clinic closing time (duration) and total patient waiting time (length of stay). A two‐stage stochastic program is then derived to account for the randomness and the sequential nature of the decisions. Although it was not possible to solve the two‐stage problem for even a limited number of scenarios, the wait‐and‐see (WS) problem was sufficiently tractable to provide a lower bound on the stochastic solution. The introduction of valid inequalities, limiting indices, and the use of special ordered sets helped to speed up the computations. A greedy heuristic was also developed to obtain solutions much more quickly. Out of practical considerations, it was necessary to develop appointment templates with time slots at fixed intervals, which are not available from the WS solution. The first to be derived was the expected value (EV) template that is used to find the expected value of the EV solution (EEV). This solution provides an upper bound on the objective function value of the two‐stage stochastic program. The average gap between the EEV and WS solutions was 18%. Results from extensive computational testing are presented for the EV template and for our adaptation of three other templates found in the literature. Depending on the relative importance of the two objective function metrics, the results demonstrate the trade‐off that exists between them. For the templates investigated, the “closing time” ranged from an average of 235 to 275 minutes for a 300‐minute session, while the corresponding “total patient time in clinic” ranged from 80 to 71 minutes.