A practical assessment of risk-averse approaches in production lot-sizing problems

ABSTRACT

This paper presents an empirical assessment of four state-of-the-art risk-averse approaches to deal with the capacitated lot-sizing problem under stochastic demand. We analyse two mean-risk models based on the semideviation and on the conditional value-at-risk risk measures, and alternate first and second-order stochastic dominance approaches. The extensive computational experiments based on different instances characteristics and on a case-study suggest that CVaR exhibits a good trade-off between risk and performance, followed by the semideviation and first-order stochastic dominance approach. For all approaches, enforcing risk-aversion helps to reduce the cost-standard deviation substantially, which is usually accomplished via increasing production rates. Overall, we can say that very risk-averse decision-makers would be willing to pay an increased price to have a much less risky solution given by CVaR. In less risk-averse settings, though, semideviation and first-order stochastic dominance can be appealing alternatives to provide significantly more stable production planning costs with a marginal increase of the expected costs.     

两段式热脱焦油煤气炉在环形加热炉上的开发应用

介绍了两段式煤气发生炉热脱焦油煤气在无缝钢管环形加热炉上的开发与应用 ,以及两段式煤气发生炉热脱焦油煤气站的设计和采用热脱焦油煤气代替重油所产生的经济效益     

Second-law-based thermodynamic analysis of two-stage and mechanical-subcooling refrigeration cycles

Thermodynamic analysis of HFC-134a vapor-compression refrigeration cycles is investigated by both the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Second-law analysis is carried out for both two-stage and mechanical-subcooling refrigeration cycles. The analysis is performed on each of the system components to determine their individual contribution to the overall system irreversible losses. It is found that most of the losses are due to a low compressor efficiency. Irreversibilities of expansion valves and condenser are also significant. In addition, it is shown that the optimum inter-stage pressure for two-stage and mechanical-subcooling refrigeration systems is very close to the saturation pressure corresponding to the arithmetic mean of the refrigerant condensation and evaporation temperatures. These results are compared with the existing practice in the industry. Furthermore, theoretical results of a two-stage refrigeration system performance are also compared with experimental values for a CFC-22 system.     

两段法处理高浓度含砷废水的工艺研究

通过正交试验研究了用石灰、有机捕集沉淀剂(DTCR)两段法处理高浓度含砷废水的工艺条件，并与常规法比较了处理效果和处理费用。结果表明：用两段法处理后的废水可达标排放；污泥量大大减少，易脱水，含水率低，降低了后处理的难度和费用；污泥稳定，不产生二次污染。该法具有显著的社会效益和生态效益。     

Maximum quasi-likelihood estimation for the near(2) model

Abstract.  Maximum quasi-likelihood estimation is investigated for the NEAR(2) model, an autoregressive time series model with marginal exponential distributions. In certain regions of the parameter space, simulations indicate that maximum quasi-likelihood estimators perform better than two-stage conditional least squares estimators in terms of the per cent of estimates falling in the parameter space. The problem of out-of-range estimates is shown to be caused by the lack of information in the data rather than the characteristics of the method of estimation.     

Treatment of methanol wastewater with two-stage and two-phase anaerobic process

The two-stage and two-phase anaerobic process (TSTP) composed of hydrolytic acidification reactor,first-order and second-order external circulation anaerobic reactors (EC) was taken to treat methanol wastewater. Test results show that TSTP process is quick start-up in 51 d, and the maximum VFA of hydrolytic acidification reactor effluent reaches 876 mg/L. Under the condition of volume loading of 6.56 kgCOD/m3·d, COD removal rate of the first-order EC reactor is about 85%, and under the condition of volume loading of 1.02 kgCOD/m3·d, COD removal rate of the second-order EC reactor is about 50%. When the inflow COD of TSTP process is between 7000-11000 mg/L, its effluent COD is lower than 600 mg/L. In the biological conversion process of methanol into methane,the production of acetic acids as an intermediate product can be ignored and the direct production of methane from methanol is predominant.     

基于超网络的集成工艺决策与调度问题研究

针对多工艺产品的加工路线决策与车间调度方案不能同步制定的问题,在制造车间数字化背景下,提出集成车间不同要素信息的特征—工序—机器—工人的超网络结构,建立基于超网络的加工路线决策与车间调度模型,设计一种集成工艺决策与车间调度的两阶段混合遗传算法求解模型。在工艺决策阶段,设计特征—工序双层矩阵编码染色体保持加工路线的多样性,并在遗传算法的执行过程中使用变邻域搜索方法增强算法的局部搜索能力;在车间调度阶段,采用NSGA-Ⅱ算法优化调度模型,将得到的调度方案多目标值返回至工艺决策阶段用于加工路线的适应度评价。最后通过仿真实验验证了该算法的可行性与有效性。     

两阶段链视角下河南省城市科技效率评价研究

建立两阶段链DEA模型,研究科技投入产出效率,由第一阶段科技创新和第二阶段科技应用组成。选取了2006~2013年共8年数据,对河南省城市科技投入产出进行评价分析,组成结果显示:(1)一些城市科技资源配置机制运行较差;(2)城市技术效率呈现以郑州为中心的偏高,其他城市较低,且其他城市与郑州市的科技效率差距较大。     

基于两级插补机制的NURBS曲线插补器研究

针对非均匀有理B样条（non-uniform rational B-spline,NURBS）曲线高速高精加工过程中计算负载高的问题,提出一种基于两级插补机制的NURBS曲线插补器方案,在主控端执行第一级插补,完成曲线预处理等粗插补工作;在运动控制端执行第二级插补,完成加减速及实时位置输出等精插补工作。同时,设计并开发基于ARM-FPGA架构的实验平台,可用于两级插补器的实验验证,具有一定的现实参考意义。