FROM MANUFACTURING SCHEDULING TO SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION：THE CONTROL OF COMPLEXITY AND UNCERTAINTY

With time-based competition and rapid technology advancements, effective manufacturingscheduling and supply chain coordination are critical to quickly respond to changing marketconditions. These problems, however, are difficult in view of inherent complexity and variousuncertainties involved. Based on a series of results by the authors, decomposition and coordination byusing Lagrangian relaxation is identified in this paper as an effective way to control complexity anduncertainty.A manufacturing scheduling problem is first formulated within the job shop context withuncertain order arrivals, processing times, due dates, and part priorities as a separable optimizationproblem. A solution methodology that combines Lagrangian relaxation, stochastic dynamicprogramming, and heuristics is developed. Method improvements to effectively solve large problemsare also highlighted. To extend manufacturing scheduling within a factory to coordinate autonomicmembers across chains of suppliers, a decentralized supply chai     

反应条件及添加惰性物质对三聚甲醛合成反应的影响

研究了三聚甲醛合成过程进料浓度、催化剂用量等对副产物（特别是甲酸）生成行为的影响。结果表明，该体系副产物的生成强烈地依赖于反应时间和催化剂硫酸的用量，而与原料浓度的波动无关。在反应－精馏过程的反应器中添加惰性高沸有机物，可有效地缩短反应物的停留时间，提高三聚甲酸的选择性，大大降低快速反应－精馏过程对反应器的设计要求。     

PDE-Based Medial Axis Extraction and Shape Manipulation of Arbitrary Meshes

Shape skeletonization （i.e., medial axis extraction） is powerful in many visual computing applications, such as pattern recognition, object segmentation, registration, and animation. In this paper, the authors expand the use of diffusion equations combined with distance field information to approximate medial axes of arbitrary 3D differential properties. It offers an alternative solids represented by polygonal meshes based on their but natural way for medial axis extraction for commonly used 3D polygonal models. By solving the PDE along time axis, this system can not only quickly extract diffusion-based medial axes of input meshes, but also allow users to visualize the extraction process at each time step. In addition, the proposed model provides users a set of manipulation toolkits to sculpt extracted medial axes, then use diffusion-based techniques to recover corresponding deformed shapes according to the original input datasets. This skeleton-based shape manipulation offers a fast and easy way for animation and deformation of complicated mesh objects.     

Systemic Intervention in a University Department: Reflections on Arrested Action Research

This paper reflects on my experience as an insider researcher attempting to use critical systems ideas and practices to promote quality improvement in a university engineering department. Reflection is a key part of learning. This paper is intended to contribute to critically, self-reflective learning for the community of systems practitioners. These reflections on my questions about participation, ethics, politics of process, and the choices and actions resulting from them may help others to formulate their own. The complexity of systems practice places substantial demands on the researcher, particularly in the case of insider, practitioner research. Nevertheless, the exploration of critical systems approaches to critique boundaries and structure ‘problems’ in the core aspects of higher education in locally meaningful ways should continue. While demanding, it still can work to promote learning about authentic quality.     

调和NA群上的Hardy不确定原理

首先介绍了调和NA群的基本结构和球函数的性质.其次基于调和NA群上的Helgason-Fourier变换及相应于Laplace-Beltrami算子的热核,在NA群上建立了Hardy不确定原理.所得结论推广了Thangavelu（2002年）的部分结果.     

PEAK COVARIANCE STABILITY OF A RANDOM RICCATI EQUATION ARISING FROM KALMAN FILTERING WITH OBSERVATION LOSSES

We consider the stability of a random Riccati equation with a Markovian binary jump coefficient. More specifically, we are concerned with the boundedness of the solution of a random Riccati difference equation arising from Kalman filtering with measurement losses. A sufficient condition for the peak covariance stability is obtained which has a simpler form and is shown to be less conservative in some cases than a very recent result in existing literature. Furthermore, we show that a known sufficient condition is also necessary when the observability index equals one.     

CONSTRUCTIVE KISSING NUMBERS IN HIGH-DIMENSIONAL SPACES

In the present paper, we focus on constructive spherical codes. By employing algebraic geometry codes, we give an explicit construction of spherical code sequences. By making use of the idea involved in the proof of the Gilbert-Varshamov bound in coding theory, we construct a spherical code sequence in exponential time which meets the best-known asymptotic bound by Shamsiev and Wyner.     

电荷掺杂和杂原子掺杂聚硅烷的比较性理论研究

本文利用GAUSSIAN 03程序包中的密度泛函理论,在B3LYP/6-31G(d)水平下,对聚21硅烷、电荷掺杂的聚21硅烷以及杂原子(硼和磷)掺杂的聚21硅烷进行几何全优化,并对它们的几何结构和自旋密度进行了比较性理论研究.结果表明,电荷掺杂能使聚硅烷的Si—Si键长增长,其极子分布几乎遍及了聚21硅烷的整个链;而杂原子(B、P)的掺杂对聚硅烷的影响主要集中在与B、P原子相邻的Si原子上,极子分布仅局域在B、P原子附近的3~5个原子上.