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.     

STRATEGIC EXERCISE OF REAL OPTIONS：INVESTMENT DECISIONS IN TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

Viewing investment projects in new technologies as real options, this paper studies the effects ofendogenous competition and asymmetric information on the strategic exercise of real options. We firstdevelop a multi-period, game-theoretic model and show how competition leads to early exercise andaggressive investment behaviors and how competition erodes option values. We then relax the typicalfull-information assumption found in the literature and allow information asymmetry to exist acrossfirms. Our model shows, in contrast to the literature that payoff is independent of the ordering ofexercise, that the sequential exercise of real options may generate both informational and payoffexternalities. We also find some surpising but interesting results such as having more information isnot necessarily better.     

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     

ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING AND VENDOR SUPPORT QUALITY BY THE USAGE OF APPLICATION SOFTWARE PACKAGES： A STUDY OF ASIAN ENTREPRENEURS

In this paper we study how organizational learning impacts organizational behavior, and howvendor support quality enhances product adoption and usage behavior.These constructs were verifiedusing Application Software Packages(ASP)-a prewritten, precoded, commercially available set ofprograms that eliminates the need for individuals or organizations to write their own softwareprograms for certain functions. The relationship between ASP usage, usage outcomes and useprocesses were also investigated. Two hundred and ninety-five Chinese, Indian, and Malayentrepreneurships were studied. It was found that usage outcome strongly determines usage, while useprocess has only an indirect relationship (via outcome) on usage. The impact of organizational learningand vendor service quality on usage, usage outcome, and use process were robust. Theoretical andpractical implications of the research are discussed.     

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.     

LOGISTICS SCHEDULING： ANALYSIS OFTWO-STAGE PROBLEMS

This paper studies the coordination effects between stages for scheduling problems where decision-making is a two-stage process. Two stages are considered as one system. The system can be a supply chain that links two stages, one stage representing a manufacturer; and the other, a distributor It also can represent a single manufacturer, while each stage represents a different department responsible for a part of operations. A problem that jointly considers both stages in order to achieve ideal overall system performance is defined as a system problem. In practice, at times, it might not be feasible for the two stages to make coordinated decisions due to (i) the lack of channels that allow decision makers at the two stages to cooperate, and/or (ii) the optimal solution to the system problem is too difficult (or costly) to achieve.Two practical approaches are applied to solve a variant of two-stage logistic scheduling problems. The Forward Approach is defined as a solution procedure by which the first sta     

网络外部性、转移成本与企业兼容性选择

从转移成本内生化的角度,研究了存在网络外部效应的市场中,进入企业的兼容性选择问题,并将其与在位企业、行业以及政府管制下的兼容性动机进行比较.本文得出的主要结论是相对社会最优而言,由于转移成本的不同,进入厂商可能兼容性选择不足,也可能过度兼容.     

基于MATLAB的神经网络在股市预测中的应用

以道氏三大假说作为理论基础，设计一个三层BP网络，并建立相应的数学模型，以MATLAB为工具，个股上海石化(600688)140天实际收盘价作为样本，对网络进行训练后，预剩10天的收盘价，并计算出与实际收盘价的高差Q＝0．0146，Q已经小到几乎可以忽视的程度。     

侧风状况下轿车气动特性的仿真与实验研究

以获得适合计算侧风气动特性的湍流模型为目的,应用计算流体动力学方法对比了标准k模型、RNG k模型、Realizable k模型以及SST模型对不同横摆角状态下轿车气动特性仿真结果的影响。结果表明,当0时,采用Realizable k湍流模型仿真得出的阻力系数与实验结果最为吻合,误差仅为1.53%,侧力系数的仿真结果与理论分析更为吻合;当3～1 5时,采用Realizable k湍流模型仿真得出的阻力系数与实验结果相比误差最大为0.96%,侧力系数的仿真结果与实验结果趋势一致,误差最大也仅为4.9%。总之,Realizable k湍流模型能够很好的模拟侧风状态下车辆的气动特性,仿真结果为进一步分析车辆的侧风稳定性提供了参考数据。     

虚拟环境中一种基于密度聚类的区域划分算法

为支持虚拟环境中大规模用户共享资源,需解决虚拟空间中用户集合划分问题,即把用户对象分配给多个服务器。由于用户不可预知的移动和交互,可能导致部分服务器负载过重。现有的划分思想注重于服务器负载的重分配,但是用户的移动和交互为划分也应作为主要考虑因素。据此思路,提出一种基于密度聚类的改进型划分算法(DCA)。该方法改进密度聚类中的邻域半径(Eps)和最小数目阈值(MinPts)因子,提出了基于移动视窗方法的密度聚类方法。同时,提出不一致性事件的概念以验证所提方法的有效性,并给出了实验结果。