Feature network-driven quadrant mapping for summarizing customer reviews

With the rapid growth of e-commerce, customers increasingly write online reviews of the product they purchase. These customer reviews are one of the most valuable sources of information affecting selection of products or services. Summarizing these customer reviews is becoming an interesting area of research, inspiring researchers to develop a more condensed, concise summarization for users. However, most of the current efforts at summarization are based on general product features without feature’s relationship. As a result, these summaries either ignore feedback from customers or do a poor job of reflecting the opinions expressed in customer reviews. To remedy this summarization shortcoming, we propose a feature network-driven quadrant mapping that captures and incorporates opinions from customer reviews. Our focus is on construction of a feature network, which is based on co-occurrence and sematic similarities, and a quadrant display showing the opinions polarity of feature groups. Moreover, the proposed approach involves clustering similar product features, and thus, it is different from standard text summarization based on abstraction and extraction. The summarized results can help customers better understand the overall opinions about a product.     

Optimal bundling and pricing decisions for complementary products in a two-layer supply chain

This article explores bundling and pricing decisions for two complementary products in a two-layer supply chain consisting of a multi-product manufacturer and a retailer. We establish four different pricing models under cases of decentralized decision, while considering different portfolio-bundling strategies of the manufacturer and the retailer. A game-theoretical method is used to characterize the corresponding equilibrium outcomes in each scenario. By further analyzing and comparing the maximum profits of all four possible scenarios, optimal bundling and pricing decisions for the manufacturer and the retailer are obtained, respectively. Model extensions and numerical examples are enriched to highlight the factors affecting optimal decision-making. Finally, valuable and interesting managerial insights are summarized. Results show that the upstream manufacturer always profits more when he sells complementary products separately. However, the optimal bundling decision of the downstream retailer is jointly determined by product complementarity (as a major factor) and the difference of product profitability (as a secondary factor). Market power cannot exert an influence on both optimal bundling decisions, but it can partly affect pricing decisions.     

Which is the use of systems theory in literature analysis?: The discovery of the place in La Mancha in Don Quixote

The use of systems theory to attempt to determine which ''place in La Mancha'' was the one whose name Cervantes could not quite recall in his universal novel, appears to be ordained to change certain attitudes towards science held in Cervantine literature. The reason: after four centuries of literary analysis, systemic methodology has proven able to identify the famous ''place'' with acceptable accuracy. Nonetheless, certain reasonable doubts persist around the suitability of a strictly scientific analysis of literature. In light of those doubts, the present article aims primarily to facilitate critique both of the systemic approach adopted and its outcome.     

A partial robust optimization approach to inventory management for the offline-to-online problem under different selling prices

This study examines an optimal inventory strategy when a retailer markets a product at different selling prices through a dual-channel supply chain, comprising an online channel and an offline channel. Using the operating pattern of the offline-to-online (O2O) business model, we develop a partial robust optimization (PRO) model. Then, we provide a closed-form solution when only the mean and standard deviation of the online channel demand distribution is known and the offline channel demand follows a uniform distribution (partial robust). Specifically, owing to the good structural properties of the solution, we obtain a heuristic ordering formula for the general distribution case (i.e., the offline channel demand follows a general distribution). In addition, a series of numerical experiments prove the rationality of our conjecture. Moreover, after comparing our solution with other possible policies, we conclude that the PRO approach improves the performance of incorporating the internet into an existing supply chain and, thus, is able to adjust the level of conservativeness of the solution. Finally, in a degenerated situation, we compare our PRO approach with a combination of information approach. The results show that the PRO approach has more “robust” performance. As a result, a reasonable trade-off between robustness and performance is achieved.     

基于多层等值面的电磁环境三维可视化研究

电磁环境三维可视化是目前虚拟战场环境中亟待解决的问题之一,提出多层等值面的方法来表现三维电磁环境。数据生成采用了Longley Rice电波传播模型,该模型考虑地形遮挡以及大气影响,计算生成了用频设备的三维空间电磁波强度值。为了直观表现电磁波强度在空间中的分布范围,采用多层Marching Tetrahedra(MT)等值面的方法,表现了多个不同强度大小的电磁环境分布,解决了面绘制方法在对体数据内部数据细节表现不够的缺陷。为了提高电磁环境的可视化性能,充分利用现在图形处理器(graphic processing unit, GPU)的通用计算能力,实现了硬件加速多层等值面一起提取输出的方法,降低CPU计算负荷,加快了等值面提取速度。最后实现了一个可实时交互的电磁环境三维可视化系统,实验结果表明该方法表现了用频设备在虚拟战场环境中的三维电磁态势,对于用频设备选址和无线通信规划都有一定的辅助作用。     

基于模拟退火的多处理机调度优化算法研究

研究了目标函数是最小化最大完工时间的多处理机调度问题,此问题被证明是NP hard问题。分析了此问题现有模拟退火算法的缺陷,在此基础上构造了一个模拟退火算法SA LZ。大量的随机数据实验用于验证算法的性能和计算效率,实验结果表明SA LZ算法优于现有算法。     

Energy flows in complex ecological systems: a review

Energy flow drives the complex systems to evolve. The allometric scaling as the universal energy flow pattern has been found in different scales of ecological systems. It reflects the general power law relationship between flow and store. The underlying mechanisms of energy flow patterns are explained as the branching transportation networks which can be regarded as the result of systematic optimization of a biological target under constraints. Energy flows in the ecological system may be modelled by the food web model and population dynamics on the network. This paper reviews the latest progress on the energy flow patterns, explanatory models for the allometric scaling and modelling approach of flow and network evolution dynamics in ecology. Furthermore, the possibility of generalizing these flow patterns, modelling approaches to other complex systems is discussed. This research is supported by Guozhi Xu Post Doctoral Research Foundation and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60574068.     

基于面向服务的通用任务规划仿真集成方法研究

采用基于Service oriented architecture(SOA)的集成框架实现了仿真环境中无人机系统的通用任务规划模块功能的集成.给出了具有系统之系统特点的多无人机综合仿真环境UAVSSE体系结构设计和多层次集成方法.将任务规划功能模决抽象为任务规划服务,基于Web Services技术实现通用的任务规划服务封装.利用注册、发现和绑定机制,任务规划功能能够动态地集成进仿真运行,并能为多架无人机和多个地面系统的仿真提供任务规划服务.通过综合仿真环境中的原型系统验证了相关技术,结果表明基于面向服务方法的任务规划集成能够为多UAV仿真环境提供有效的任务规划功能集成,弥补了HLA在构建动态"系统之系统"仿真中的不足,并能为未来的仿真系统和真实UAV一体化运行提供借鉴.