运用损失分布法的计量商业银行操作风险

讨论损失分布法的基本原理,运用蒙特卡罗模拟对我国商业银行操作风险的经验数据进行了实证分析.研究表明,我国商业银行操作风险平均损失金额高于国际活跃银行;我国商业银行操作风险涉及的业务条线主要是商业银行业务、支付和结算业务;操作风险的风险类型主要表现为内部欺诈和外部欺诈;如果按照巴塞尔委员会规定的99.9%的置信水平,国内每家商业银行仅仅为操作风险就需要配置107亿元的资本,远远超过了现阶段我国商业银行的风险资本承受能力.因此,我国商业银行必须采取有效措施尽快补充资本,以提高抵御风险的能力.     

Optimal maintenance and replacement of extraction machinery

This paper considers a problem of optimal preventive maintenance and replacement schedule of equipment devoted to extracting resources from known deposits. Typical examples are oil drills, mine shovels, etc. At most one replacement of the existing machinery by a new one is allowed. The problem is formulated as an optimal control problem subject to the state constraint that the remaining deposit at any given time is nonnegative. We show that the optimal preventive maintenance, production rates, and the replacement and salvage times of the existing machinery and the new one, if required, can be obtained by solving sequentially a series of free-end-point optimal control problems. Moreover, an algorithm based on this result is developed and used to solve two illustrative examples.     

An improved branch-and-bound algorithm to minimize the weighted flowtime on identical parallel machines with family setup times

This article investigates identical parallel machines scheduling with family setup times. The objective function being the weighted sum of completion times, the problem is known to be strongly NP-hard. We propose a constructive heuristic algorithm and three complementary lower bounds. Two of these bounds proceed by elimination of setup times or by distributing each of them to jobs of the corresponding family, while the third one is based on a lagrangian relaxation. The bounds and the heuristic are incorporated into a branch-and-bound algorithm. Experimental results obtained outperform those of the methods presented in previous works, in term of size of solved problems.     

基于自适应和模糊控制的新型XY平台同步控制研究

高性能XY平台普遍应用于集成电路(IC)制造和封装设备中.为获得较高加速度,提出了一种单边双直线电机冗余驱动的新型XY定位平台.冗余驱动系统在高速和高加速运动时均存在同步运动精度问题.针对X轴向双直线电机的同步驱动控制,建立了冗余驱动数学模型,并基于模型参考自适应控制和自适应模糊控制算法,设计了运动控制器,确保了同步运动精度.仿真结果表明,在较高加速度运动时,系统具有良好的静态、动态性能和较高的同步运动精度.     

用于连续域优化的蚁群算法及其收敛性研究

蚁群算法作为一种新的智能计算模式,由于其离散性本质而在组合优化问题上取得巨大成功,但这也限制了它在连续问题求解中的应用.为此,提出一种用于连续域寻优的改进蚁群算法.算法的局部搜索基于解决离散问题的经典蚁群优化思想,全局搜索利用Ant Walk和Ant Diffusion技术, 且每代寻优结束后均采用"精英策略"把本代最优个体保留到下一代中.最后在理论上对其进行了收敛性分析,证明可较快地收敛到全局最优解,并用几个基准函数对算法做了仿真测试,均取得良好效果.     

干线运输优化的两阶段局部搜索启发式算法

干线运输的车货匹配及车辆运输路径优化对于降低大规模、多分布网点的物流企业的运输成本有重要意义.建立了干线运输的发车费用模型及总费用模型,提出应用一种基于直达网络搜索和车辆行驶路径搜索的两阶段局部搜索启发式算法进行求解.通过对企业实际数据的计算,表明该算法优化了干线运输的运输路径,减少了运输车辆数,降低了运输总费用,具有较好的应用前景.     

Interval Time Series Analysis with an Application to the Sterling-Dollar Exchange Rate

Traditional econometrics has long employed ＂points＂ to measure time series data. In real life situations, however, it suffers the loss of volatility information, since many variables are bounded by intervals in a given period. To address this issue, this paper provides a new methodology for interval time series analysis. The concept of ＂interval stochastic process＂ is formally defined as a counterpart of ＂stochastic process＂ in point-based econometrics. The authors introduce the concepts of interval stationarity, interval statistics （including interval mean, interval variance, etc.） and propose an interval linear model to investigate the dynamic relationships between interval processes. A new interval-based optimization approach for estimation is proposed, and corresponding evaluation criteria are derived. To demonstrate that the new interval method provides valid results, an empirical example on the sterling-dollar exchange rate is presented.     

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.     

Designing a Hybrid Intelligent Mining System for Credit Risk Evaluation

In this study, a novel hybrid intelligent mining system integrating rough sets theory and support vector machines is developed to extract efficiently association rules from original information table for credit risk evaluation and analysis. In the proposed hybrid intelligent system, support vector machines are used as a tool to extract typical features and filter its noise, which are different from the previous studies where rough sets were only used as a preprocessor for support vector machines. Such an approach could reduce the information table and generate the final knowledge from the reduced information table by rough sets. Therefore, the proposed hybrid intelligent system overcomes the difficulty of extracting rules from a trained support vector machine classifier and possesses the robustness which is lacking for rough-set-based approaches. In addition, the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid intelligent system is illustrated with two real-world credit datasets.     

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.