COMPARISON OF TWO METHODS OF OPERATING THEATRE PLANNING： APPLICATION IN BELGIAN HOSPITAL

Operating Theatre is the centre of the hospital management＇s efforts. It constitutes the most expensive sector with more than 10% of the intended operating budget of the hospital. To reduce the costs while maintaining a good quality of care, one of the solutions is to improve the existent planning and scheduling methods by improving the services and surgical specialty coordination or finding the best estimation of surgical case durations. The other solution is to construct an effective surgical case plan and schedule. The operating theatre planning and scheduling is the two important steps, which aim to make a surgical case programming with an objective of obtaining a realizable and efficient surgical case schedule. This paper focuses on the first step, the operating theatre planning problem. Two planning methods are introduced and compared. Real data of a Belgian university hospital ＂Tivoli＂ are used for the experiments.     

求解二层线性规划问题的混合粒子群算法

结合粒子群优化方法和单纯形法为二层线性规划构造了一个混合粒子群优化算法.算法具有两层结构,其中粒子群算法用以求解上层规划问题,单纯形法用以求解下层规划问题.设计的粒子群在上层决策变量的可行城内搜索最优解,同时通过单纯形法求解下层规划问题得到每个粒子相应的下层规划问题的解.算法通过初始种群可行化,以及步长控制、不可行粒子淘汰等技巧避免了使用罚函数处理约束带来的困难,提高了粒子群优化算法的计算性能.最后,我们给出算法的数值例子并对该算法的计算性能加以分析.     

Cluster Synchronization in a Complex Dynamical Network with Two Nonidentical Clusters

This paper further investigates cluster synchronization in a complex dynamical network with two-cluster. Each cluster contains a number of identical dynamical systems, however, the subsystems composing the two clusters can be different, i.e., the individual dynamical system in one cluster can differ from that in the other cluster. Complete synchronization within each cluster is possible only if each node from one cluster receives the same input from nodes in other cluster. In this case, the stability condition of one-cluster synchronization is known to contain two terms： the first accounts for the contribution of the inner-cluster coupling structure while the second is simply an extra linear term, which can be deduced by the ＂same-input＂ condition. Applying the connection graph stability method, the authors obtain an upper bound of input strength for one cluster if the first account is known, by which the synchronizability of cluster can be scaled. For different clusters, there are different upper bound of input strength by virtue of different dynamics and the corresponding cluster structure. Moreover, two illustrative examples are presented and the numerical simulations coincide with the theoretical analysis.     

面向用户偏好的属性值评分分布协同过滤算法

针对传统协同过滤算法存在的不足,本文充分考虑用户对项目相关属性特征的偏好,将用户对项目的评价转化为用户对项目属性偏好的评分分布;在此基础上,对传统的协同过滤算法的相似性度量方法进行改进,并采用修正的用户偏好数学期望预测模型,提出一种面向用户偏好的属性值评分分布协同过滤推荐算法.实验结果表明,该算法可有效解决传统过滤算法存在的问题,推荐精度显著提高,使推荐服务更好地满足用户的偏好需求.     

基于IMM-UKF方法的主动段目标分级与关机识别

主动段目标的分级与关机识别对于系统把握目标模型切换并部署后续跟踪具有重要意义。建立了主动段目标的分级和关机所涉及的两级主动段模型和中段模型;引入了交互式多模型框架以应对不确定模式下的跟踪问题,引入了无迹卡尔曼滤波以解决非线性估计问题。在天基观测条件下进行了仿真实验,结果表明,利用模型概率和总体估计误差的异常变化,可有效识别主动段目标的分级和关机。     

我国电影生命周期模型及实证分析

对我国电影市场的影片生命周期进行了分析,建立了考虑季节性因素和其他影响因素的Gamma需求模型,并结合计量模型中的变截距面板数据模型与普通多元回归模型应用于研究电影观众人数及其衰减情况.估计结果显示:建立的模型能够较准确地反映我国电影市场观众人数.的变化规律.此外,针对我国电影市场,量化研究了影星的票房号召力、续集、投资规模等因素对观众人数的影响情况,为电影决策者制定策略以及预测新上映影片的观众需求做指导与借鉴.实证结果显示:考虑档期因素的必要性,并且发现较多的观众会导致影片观众人数的下降显得更快些,大制作和小制作电影的观众衰减速度相差很小,模拟支持研究结论的合理性.     

Coordinating production and recycling decisions with stochastic demand and return

In this paper, the joint production and recycling problem is investigated for a hybrid manufacturing and remanufacturing system where brand-new products are produced in the manufacturing plant and recycled products are remanufactured into as-new products in the remanufacturing facility. Both the brand-new products and remanufactured products are used to satisfy customer demands. Returns of used products that are recycled from customers are assumed to be stochastic and nonlinearly price-dependent. A mathematical model is proposed to maximize the overall profit of the system through simultaneously optimizing the production and recycling decisions, subject to two capacity constraints — the manufacturing capacity and the remanufacturing capacity. Based on Lagrangian relaxation method, subgradient algorithm and heuristic algorithm, a solution approach is developed to solve the problem. A representative example is presented to illustrate the system, and managerial analysis indicates that the uncertainties in demand and return have much influence on the production and recycling policy. In addition, twenty randomly produced examples are solved, and computational results show that the solution approach can obtain very good solutions for all examples in reasonable time.     

Coordinating pricing and inventory decisions in a bounded production system with uncertain yield

Most inventory researches assume that production level can fluctuate arbitrarily. However, large fluctuation of the production level in many firms may be much costly. This paper addresses the coordinating pricing and inventory control problem in a bounded production system with uncertain yield, in which the production level is constrained between a maximum and minimum level in each period and the price can be adjusted dynamically. We show that the optimal policy is the interval base-stock-list-price policy. Also, we study the impact of the production bounds and uncertainty of the yield on the production system. Numerical experiments are also performed to study the impact of parameters on the system.     

The M/PH/1 queue with working vacations and vacation interruption

We study an M/PH/1 queue with phase type working vacation and vacation interruption where the vacation time follows a phase type distribution. The server serves the customers at a lower rate in a vacation period. The server comes back to the regular busy period at a service completion without completing the vacation. Such policy is called vacation interruption. In terms of quasi birth and death process and matrix-geometric solution method, we obtain the stationary queue length distribution. Moreover we obtain the conditional stochastic decomposition structures of queue length and waiting time when the service time distribution in the regular busy period is exponential.     

Two-scale finite element Green’s function approximations with applications to electrostatic potential computation

<正> In this paper,a two-scale finite element approach is proposed and analyzed for approximationsof Green's function in three-dimensions.This approach is based on a two-scale finite elementspace defined,respectively,on the whole domain with size H and on some subdomain containing singularpoints with size h (h H).It is shown that this two-scale discretization approach is very efficient.In particular,the two-scale discretization approach is applied to solve Poisson-Boltzmann equationssuccessfully.