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.     

The Precedence Effect in Three Species of Birds (Melopsittacus undulatus, Serinus canaria, and Taeniopygia guttata).

The perceived locations of paired auditory images, simulating direct sounds and their echoes, have been recently studied in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus; M. L. Dent & R. J. Dooling, 2003a, 2003b). In this article, the authors extend those experiments to include measurements of the precedence effect using a discrimination paradigm in two additional bird species: canaries (Serinus canaria) and zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Although time courses of summing localization, localization dominance, and echo thresholds were similar across all species, budgerigars had slightly higher overall levels of discrimination. The results from these experiments add further support that the precedence effect in birds is similar to that found in other animals and that the ability to suppress echoes that might degrade localization and auditory object perception may be a general property of the vertebrate auditory system. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

连续小波变换在多元函数空问中的应用

使用连续小波变换讨论了某些偏微分方程和相应的积分方程之间的关系．使用连续小波变换能够将这些偏微分方程变换成相应的积分方程，这些偏微分方程与相应的积分方程不仅在弱收敛意义下是等价的，而且在范数收敛意义下也是等价的．     

企业不但应该做大更应该做强

从入世的角度 ,分析了我国企业在重组过程中存在的问题 ,并指出了我国企业做强做大的紧迫性     

弱势的和强势的——白先勇小说中的男女角色易位

白先勇以弱势的男性和强势的女性作为建构其小说世界的基点。男女角色易位颠覆了男强女弱的传统人物塑造方式，揭示出单个人边缘化生存所不为人知的痛苦。父辈影响、生活经历及其性取向是产生这一特色的根本原因。     

暴雨洪水流域系统随机模拟(研究之三)

本文提出的移置特大暴雨的不连序序列的随机插补方法,以及利用W—H逆变换法将偏态暴雨序列转为正态序列和随机扣除模拟的暴雨过程损失量等方法,基本是可行的,对提高模型的代表性、稳定性和实用性有重要作用。     

关于最远点判定及直径的唯一性

给出了点到有界集最远点的一些必要或充分条件，然后对直径的唯一性也给出了一些判定条件。     

Switching between tasks of unequal familiarity: The role of stimulus-attribute and response-set selection.

It has been reported that it is harder to switch to a strong, well-practiced task from a weaker, less-practiced task than vice versa. Three experiments replicated this surprising asymmetry and investigated how it is affected by a reduction in interference between tasks. Experiment 1 progressively delayed the onset of the stimulus attribute associated with the stronger task. Experiments 2 and 3 separated the response sets of the tasks. Both manipulations reduced, without eliminating, interference of the stronger with the weaker task but reversed the asymmetry of switch costs, resulting in a larger cost of switching to the weaker task. The results are interpreted in terms of a model of the interactions between control input, task strength, and task priming. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

高应力复合型软岩巷道支护技术研究

以某矿井底车场巷道为例，通过对围岩物化分析、力学参数、地应力测试，现场工程地质调查及巷道破坏特征分析，针对该矿软岩巷道围岩变形量大和流变变形显著这两个特点，提出了一次支护采用强力锚喷网、二次支护采用锚注支护是适合该矿岩体特点的合理支护形式，并在该矿西大巷延拓及井底车场巷道、硐空修复中成功应用，取得了良好的技术经济效果。