Synchronous receiver initiated MAC protocol for long-lived sensor networks

In this paper, we discuss the design of a new Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol, SRI-MAC (Synchronous Receiver Initiated MAC), for wireless sensor networks whose goal is to extend the lifetime of the network by avoiding major energy waste causes, such as collisions, overhearing and idle listening.     

Propagation of the Chain Explosive‐Decomposition Reaction in Silver Azide Crystals

The velocity of the chain explosivedecomposition reaction in silver azide whiskes has been measured (1500 m/sec). The measured velocity is identified as the propagation velocity of the diffusion front of holes generated in the course of explosive decomposition.     

考虑转包的平行机供应链排序

研究一类考虑转包的供应链排序问题, 即工厂从客户处接受一批订单, 这些订单既可以由工厂完成, 也可以通过支付一定费用进行转包. 工厂需要确定被转包的订单集并安排未被转包订单的生产和运输. 针对工厂为平行机生产环境的情况, 以交货期限内完成所有订单的转包成本、生产成本与运输成本之和最小化为目标, 构建了问题的数学模型, 并设计了启发式算法. 最后通过数值实验结果表明了算法的有效性.

     

合同网协议协商机制收敛性与收敛速率分析

针对合同网协议协商机制缺乏问题求解质量与效率分析的情况,设定假设条件,构建马尔可夫链模型,得出了利用目前已有的合同类型无法保证全局收敛的结论.在此基础上,提出了变邻域合同系的概念,通过分析控制方式对收敛性的影响,得出了集中式控制可以保证全局收敛以及分布式控制以概率保证全局收敛的结论,并设计了概率的计算方法.采用Doebin理论,对应用变邻域合同系的收敛速率进行分析,得出了集中式控制收敛速率与分布式控制收敛速率的上下界估计.     

多周期多原料的供应链网络成本优化及其混合遗传算法

建立并求解一个基于成本最小的供应链网络模型.与以往研究不同,在该模型中生产一种产品需要至少两种原料,每种原料都可以由备选供应商提供.根据模型的特点,用0、1代表对原材料供应商、工厂和分销中心的选择情况,以MATLAB 7.6为平台,运用Sheffield大学的遗传算法工具箱,将遗传算法与线性规划算法相结合,实现了模型的求解.算例结果表明,给出的染色体编码方案正确,混合遗传算法有效,能解决多周期、多原料的供应链网络成本优化问题.还探讨了需求和距离变化,以及需求随机时对最优成本和最优个体的影响.研究表明,需求变化的影响大于距离变化的影响,需求随机对最优成本和最优个体的影响不大.     

基于条件风险价值的零售商创新投资决策研究

研究了由风险中性制造商和风险规避零售商构成的供应链创新投资问题。通过运用条件风险价值（CVaR）对企业的风险偏好进行测度,构建了分散供应链和集中供应链两种情况下的企业决策模型,并根据数值实验对模型作了进一步的分析。研究结果表明：零售商越担心风险,其对创新的投入越少,并会减少销售量以应对市场风险,从而使得供应链的整体收益下降;分散供应链下的创新投入、销售量和供应链的期望收益低于集中供应链下的创新投入、销售量和供应链的期望收益。施行收益共享契约后,分散供应链下的创新投入和销售量达到了集中供应链下的决策水平,制造商和零售商的期望收益均得到提高。     

Coordination between strategic forest management and tactical logistic and production planning in the forestry supply chain

In this paper, we study the coordination mechanism in the forestry supply chain between strategic forest management and tactical production planning. We first formulate an integrated model to establish a theoretical benchmark for performance of the entire supply chain. It is a mixed integer programming model that involves harvesting, bucking, transportation, production, and sales decisions for both tactical and strategic planning levels. We then present two sequential approaches S‐A and S‐B where the coordination is done through internal pricing. S‐A is the approach currently used in practice where harvesting in the forest is the main driver of the supply chain activities and internal pricing is introduced to control bucking decision in a separate stage. In contrast, S‐B takes downstream demand information into consideration and internal pricing directly influences harvesting decision in the first stage. In order to find the appropriate setting of internal pricing that leads to the system optimum, we suggest two heuristics H‐I and H‐II. The internal pricing in H‐I is based on dual values and in H‐II, it is derived from a Lagrangian decomposition. A real‐life case study in the Chilean forestry industry is used to compare the results of different approaches. It is shown that the new sequential approach S‐B generates as good feasible solution as that obtained from the integrated approach but in much less time. Both heuristics H‐I and H‐II bring about near‐optimal feasible solutions. H‐II also provides optimistic bound of the optimal objective function value, which can be used as a measure of the solution quality.     

动态受限区域内的单纯型连续近邻链查询方法

受限区域内的单纯型连续近邻链查询在空间数据挖掘、数据的相似分析和推理、空间数据库等方面具有重要的作用。为了弥补已有方法的不足,详细研究了动态受限区域内的单纯型连续近邻链查询方法。基于计算几何中的Voronoi图给出了VOR_IN_CRSCNNC算法、VOR_EX_CRSCNNC算法和VOR_DE_CRSCNNC算法。进一步进行了实验比较和分析。理论研究和实验分析表明,所提出的算法在查询过程中减少了数据逐一筛选和判断的冗余计算,在处理空间数据量较大、初始受限区域数据量较多、受限区域形状较为复杂的单纯型连续近邻链查询方面具有较大的优势。     

Synthesis of water-soluble single-walled carbon nanotubes by RAFT polymerization

Water-soluble single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were synthesized by grafting poly(acrylamide) (PAM) from the surface of SWNT via reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. The RAFT agents were covalently attached to the SWNTs by functionalizing SWNTs with in situ generated diazonium compounds. The product was characterized by means of FT-IR, Raman, ¹H NMR, TGA and TEM. The results showed that PAM chains had successfully grafted from SWNT by RAFT polymerization. The amount of PAM grown from SWNT increased with the polymerization time. The acrylamide conversion increased linearly with the polymerization time, indicating the “living” characteristics of the RAFT polymerization. TEM was utilized to image PAM-g-SWNT, showing relatively uniform polymer coatings present on the surface of individual, debundled nanotubes.