STABILITY CRITERIA FOR A CLASS OF UNCERTAINSYSTEMS WITH TIME—DELAY

Some stability criteria are obtained for a class of uncertain systems with time-delay usingLyapunov functional and analytic techniques. It is easy to check the criteria by making use of theboundedness of the uncertainties.     

Technical Notes ：STUDIES ON THE VALUE OF SECONDARY MARKET TO THE SUPPLY CHAIN

This paper investigates the impact of a secondary market, where retailers can buy and sell excessinventories, on the supply chain. We develop a two-period model with a single manufacturer and tworetailers. At the beginning of the first period the retailers order and receive products from themanufacturer, but at the beginning of the second period, they can trade surplus products betweenthemselves in the secondary market. We investigate the impact of the correlated dependence ofretailers' demand on both the quantity effect and the allocation effect under the secondary market.Lastly,we study potential strategies for the manufacturer to increase sales with the existence of thesecondary market.     

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     

高含固量聚苯乙烯－聚丙烯酸酯复合乳胶的合成及表征

本文采用种子乳液聚合技术，合成聚苯乙烯－聚丙烯酸酯复合乳液，用ＴＥＭ电镜观察其乳液的形态，用ＧＰＣ方法测定了乳胶聚合物的化学组成。     

无界报酬向量值折扣马氏决策规划—最优平稳策略及算法

本文主要讨论了无界报酬向量模型的平稳策略问题，给出了改进平稳策略的方法，建立起向量模型的最优方程，获得平稳策略为强最优策略的充要条件．指出最优平稳策略的期望报酬函数必为极大不动点，最后提出一种寻求最优平稳策略的策略迭代算法．     

澳大利亚专业博士教育的产生及发展

20世纪90年代,澳大利亚的专业博士教育得到迅速发展,短短十几年,从第一代的"课程 论文"单一模式转变到了第二代的"P/W/U"三维模式.作者从知识生产模式理论出发,结合新英格兰大学对其教育博士的改革,介绍了澳大利亚专业博士的发展历程.     

中国动漫产业的崛起

文章从中国动漫产业现状入手,举例说明中国动漫业目前所存在的瓶颈,并由此提出了振兴中国动漫业的建议.且阐述了动漫产业任重而道远的原因.     

世博会建筑与科技创新

世界博览会有一句为全世界广泛认同的口号：＂一切源于世博会＂.世博会创造了人类的历史,用它的理念和展示的科学技术成果,预示了世界发展的方向.     

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.