Optimal Integrated Ordering and Production Policy in a Supply Chain With Stochastic Lead-Time, Processing-Time, and Demand

This paper seeks the optimal integrated ordering and production control in a supply chain by minimizing the expected sum of material and product holding costs and demand backordering costs subject to finite capacitated warehouses. With the assumptions of exponential replenishment lead-times, exponential processing-times, Poisson demand arrivals, and at most one outstanding order with its size changeable at any time, it is shown that the optimal integrated policy can be characterized by two monotonic switching curves. The optimal ordering decision follows a set of order-up-to-point policies, while the optimal production decision follows a set of base-stock policies. Based on the monotonic and asymptotic properties of the switching curves, a simple linear switching threshold policy is proposed, which performs extremely well in the experiments. The key assumptions are then relaxed and numerical examples illustrate that the main structural properties of the optimal policy are preserved.     

H∞ filtering of networked discrete-time systems with random packet losses

This paper studies the H_∞ filtering problem for networked discrete-time systems with random packet losses. The general multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) filtering system is considered. The multiple measurements are transmitted to the remote filter via distinct communication channels, and each measurement loss process is described by a two-state Markov chain. Both the mode-independent and the mode-dependent filters are considered, and the resulting filtering error system is modelled as a discrete-time Markovian system with multiple modes. A necessary and sufficient condition is derived for the filtering error system to be mean-square exponentially stable and achieve a prescribed H_∞ noise attenuation performance. The obtained condition implicitly establishes a relation between the packet loss probability and two parameters, namely, the exponential decay rate of the filtering error system and the H_∞ noise attenuation level. A convex optimization problem is formulated to design the desired filters with minimized H_∞ noise attenuation level bound. Finally, an illustrative example is given to show the effectiveness of the proposed results.     

Design and implementation of an agent-based collaborative product design system

The evolution of computer science and technology has brought new opportunities for multidisciplinary designers and engineers to collaborate with each other in a concurrent and coordinated manner. The development of computational agents with unified data structures and software protocols contributes to the establishment of a new way of working in collaborative design, which is increasingly becoming an international practice. In this paper, based on the analysis of the dynamic nature of collaborative design process, a new framework for collaborative design is described. This framework adopts an agent-based approach and relocates designers, managers, systems, and the supporting agents in a unified knowledge representation scheme for product design. In order to model the constantly evolving design process and the rationales resulted from design collaboration, a Collaborative Product Data Model (CPDM) and a constraint-based Collaborative Design Process Model (CDPM) are proposed to facilitate the management and coordination of the collaborative design process as well as design knowledge management. A prototype system of the proposed framework is implemented and its feasibility is evaluated using a real design scenario whose objective is designing a set of dining table and chairs.     

Design of moving magnet type pickup actuator using inserted coil

Recently, the demand of the information storage devices with large storage capacity such as Blu-ray Disc and high-definition television is increased. In keeping with this trend, the optical storage devices are also required to have high data transfer rate and large storage capacity. To satisfy these requirements, the actuator for optical disc drive should have a high servo bandwidth to compensate the vibration of optical disc. The servo bandwidth is limited by some flexible modes of the actuator, thus it is essential to make these frequencies of flexible modes to high frequency region. The frequency of flexible mode depends on materials and shape. Stiff materials and simple shape is useful to increase the frequency of flexible mode. In this paper, we suggested a moving magnet type actuator having flexible modes which are happened at high frequency region. Generally, the moving magnet type actuator has an advantage to increase the frequency of flexible mode because the moving magnet type actuator has simple structure and the Young’s modulus of magnet is high. However, large moving mass and inefficiency of Electromagnetic (EM) circuit cut down driving sensitivities of actuator. To improve driving sensitivities, we designed the model with the closed EM circuit for tracking actuation. The design of experiments (DOE) procedure is applied to get proper design parameters and the variable metric method (VMM) which is a technique of optimization is used to improve driving sensitivity. The lens holder is also improved based on the optimization result of EM circuit. And to make up for the low efficiency of EM circuit, the thermal stability is checked on condition that the input current is very high. At last, the final design of moving magnet type actuator is suggested and it is verified that the driving performance and the structural stiffness of the final design is sufficient.     

A method of stepwise benchmarking for inefficient DMUs based on the proximity-based target selection

DEA is a useful nonparametric method of measuring the relative efficiency of a DMU and yielding a reference target for an inefficient DMU. However, it is very difficult for inefficient DMUs to be efficient by benchmarking a target DMU which has different input use. Identifying appropriate benchmarks based on the similarity of input endowment makes it easier for an inefficient DMU to imitate its target DMUs. But it is rare to find out a target DMU, which is both the most efficient and similar in input endowments, in real situation. Therefore, it is necessary to provide an optimal path to the most efficient DMU on the frontier through several times of a proximity-based target selection process. We propose a dynamic method of stepwise benchmarking for inefficient DMUs to improve their efficiency gradually.The empirical study is conducted to compare the performance between the proposed method and the prior methods with a dataset collected from Canadian Bank branches. The comparison result shows that the proposed method is very practical to obtain a gradual improvement for inefficient DMUs while it assures to reach frontier eventually.     

公交车智能报站系统的设计与实现

针对公交车驾驶员手动报站存在的安全隐患问题,提出了一种新的智能报站系统设计。该系统由SPCE061A单片机、GPS、LCD和键盘组成,通过实时比较GPS信号与存储在NAND Flash中的站点信息来确定当前站点信息,实现智能播报。与传统的手动语音播报方式相比,该系统具有更好的安全性、智能性、稳定性,并且播报结果准确可靠。     

数值模拟网格数据模型设计与实现

在等离子体动力学、电磁学理论等物理问题的数值模拟中,各类数值模拟程序产生了大量复杂结构的科学数据.一方面,计算程序需要以高效率的I/O方式存储数据,另一方面,数据需要在各类程序间很容易地交换与共享.随着数据的规模与复杂度不断增加,传统数据管理方式的局限性日益突出.为此,设计了面向计算物理领域的数据存储模型--数值模拟网格数据模型(JAD),引入元数据管理机制,对数值模拟程序数据对象进行抽象与封装,在HDF5软件库基础上实现了高层I/O函数库(JADLib),集成先进的数据存储技术,提供直观、易用的应用程序编程接口(API),使得数值模拟数据以统一格式高效率地存储.目前,JADLib已推广应用于高功率微波、惯性约束聚变等领域多个数值模拟程序中,与元数据管理系统(JADIS)、并行可视化系统(JaVis)建立了耦合,使得用户可以直接利用这些系统进行数据的浏览、分析及可视化,促进了应用程序间的数据共享.     

基于图像块等级模型的多重认证水印算法

提出了一种新的用于灵活图像认证的多重水印嵌入算法.不同于传统的块独立水印算法中每个图像块只嵌入一个水印信息,算法对每个图像块嵌入多重水印信息.提出了两个通用的图像块等级模型,形成图像块内部的等级结构,对每个图像块以及图像块内部的各等级子块进行独立的水印生成和嵌入.将图像特征值映射为混沌系统的初值,并将图像块的编号映射为混沌系统的迭代次数,经过混沌迭代生成图像块水印,再将水印信号替代图像块中选定像素点的最低有效位,完成水印的嵌入.实验结果表明,该算法可对图像进行多重认证,对篡改区域进行精确的检测与定位,并能选择不同的定位精度.     

基于TMR-EHW的高可靠性电机控制系统

为提高恶劣环境中控制系统的可靠性,将三模块冗余（TMR）容错与演化硬件（EHW）自修复相结合,实现基于TMR—EHW结构的现场可编程门阵列电机控制系统。该系统利用TMR快速发现和定位故障,屏蔽出错模块并保持容错运行,利用EHW进行自修复,使出错模块恢复正常工作,系统可靠性得到提高。     

新闻视频结构化浏览与标注系统

阐述一种新颖的新闻视频结构化浏览和标注系统。应用基于时空切片分析的新闻主播检测方法和基于颜色直方图的镜头分割方法实现新闻视频的结构化。通过自动语音识别技术和特定语义概念模型的建立实现了对主播场景的文本信息标注和对新闻故事镜头的语义概念标注。该系统有利于用户根据个人爱好进行新闻视频的浏览和编辑,有效实现新闻视频的索引和浏览。