Collaborative Project Management: A Systemic Approach to Heavy Equipment Manufacturing Project Management

Quite often over the last decade, heavy equipment manufacturers are trying to improve their project management performance with the use of effective project management methods. However, the challenges encountered aren’t isolated problems and a systemic approach is required. This paper exemplifies how a systemic approach can be applied to heavy equipment manufacturing project (HEMP) management, through of a multifaceted vision. The findings present in the paper are based on a two-year case study in a metallurgic equipment manufacturing enterprise in China. Based on the analysis of HEMP management problems and the contributions on systemic approach application in project management, the paper enriches existing theory by: (1) interpreting the HEMP management system with the top-down disassembly method; (2) developing the collaborative project management approach with a systems view highlighting the project characteristics management and inter-departmental collaboration; (3) making suggestions for systemic approach application in project management. For practitioners and researchers, the findings are particularly meaningful for manufacturing project management and systemic approach application.     

Consensus design for continuous-time multi-agent systems with communication delay

This paper investigates a consensus design problem for continuous-time first-order multiagent systems with uniform constant communication delay.Provided that the agent dynamic is unstable and the diagraph is undirected,sufficient conditions are derived to guarantee consensus.The key technique is the adoption of historical input information in the protocol.Especially,when agent＇s own historical input information is used in the protocol design,the consensus condition is constructed in terms of agent dynamic,communication delay,and the eigenratio of the network topology.Simulation result is presented to validate the effectiveness of the theoretical result.     

从复杂性论中国传统文化传承的若干理论原 则简

本文针对最近一段时期内我们在应对这一复杂问题过程中的一些表现和所采取的应对措施,探讨了传统文化传承所涉及的几个方面的关系问题,它们是：表象与本质的关系,形式与内容的关系,理性与感情的关系,普适性与地方性的关系,进而表明客观冷静的态度和细致深入的分析,是我们解决这一时代命题的关键所在。     

Advance selling in the presence of product diffusion effect

Product diffusion refers to the phenomenon that the later demand is dependent on the early sales. To investigate how a firm’s advance selling strategy is affected by the effect of product diffusion, we consider a monopolist seller who sells a fashionable product in a market that comprises of myopic and strategic consumers over two periods (i.e., the advance selling season and the regular selling season). For a linear product diffusion effect we find that, when the effect of product diffusion is positive, the seller may set an extremely high advance selling price to induce the strategic consumers to purchase in the regular selling season, which is counter-intuitive. Moreover, the optimal procurement quantity for the seller may increase in the negative effect of product diffusion and decrease in the amount of strategic consumers. When we extend our model to consider a concave quadratic product diffusion effect, however, the optimal procurement quantity is concave in the amount of strategic consumers. Numerical studies are further presented to discuss the managerial insights.     

Dual hesitant fuzzy information aggregation with Einstein t-conorm and t-norm

Dual hesitant fuzzy set (DHFS) is a new generalization of fuzzy set (FS) consisting of two parts (i.e., the membership hesitancy function and the non-membership hesitancy function), which confronts several different possible values indicating the epistemic degrees whether certainty or uncertainty. It encompasses fuzzy set (FS), intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS), and hesitant fuzzy set (HFS) so that it can handle uncertain information more flexibly in the process of decision making. In this paper, we propose some new operations on dual hesitant fuzzy sets based on Einstein t-conorm and t-norm, study their properties and relationships and then give some dual hesitant fuzzy aggregation operators, which can be considered as the generalizations of some existing ones under fuzzy, intuitionistic fuzzy and hesitant fuzzy environments. Finally, a decision making algorithm under dual hesitant fuzzy environment is given based on the proposed aggregation operators and a numerical example is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.     

基于H∞滤波的智能车辆多传感器组合导航研究

为适应自主驾驶智能车辆的高精度、高频率及高可靠性与鲁棒性的导航要求,对智能车辆的多传感器组合导航进行了研究。提出了一种基于H∞滤波的双向光电测速仪和CP-DGPS共同辅助SINS的智能车辆冗余组合导航方法。详细推导并建立了组合系统的滤波模型。仿真结果表明,该组合导航系统具有100Hz的高频输出、厘米级的导航精度以及良好的鲁棒性能与可靠性。即使系统特性发生了显著的变化,组合系统仍能为智能车辆提供可靠的导航信息。     

集装箱海运二维收益管理能力分配随机模型

在充分考虑集装箱海运的二维属性,包括不同尺寸的集装箱类型和班轮的容量与重量双重约束的基础上,基于收益管理的思想建立了多班轮、多航段能力分配的随机模型.运用稳健优化方法将其转化为整数线性规划模型,并给出了实际应用中情景及其发生概率的获取方法,然后采用遗传算法进行求解.在算例中,得到了不同箱型的最优和满意的承运方案,研究结果表明了模型和算法的有效性.最后,通过数值分析和讨论得到3个有益的性质和管理策略.     

基于ADAMS/ATV的履带装甲车辆托带轮分布方案优选

履带装甲车辆的履带与托带轮的垂向冲击是产生冲击噪音和导致履带疲劳与断裂的重要因素。基于ADAMS软件中的ATV模块对某型履带装甲车辆建立了动力学模型，针对各托带轮所受履带的垂向冲击力大小不均匀的问题，综合动力学仿真分析，优选托带轮的分布方式，改善其动力学性能。     

CONSTRUCTIVE KISSING NUMBERS IN HIGH-DIMENSIONAL SPACES

In the present paper, we focus on constructive spherical codes. By employing algebraic geometry codes, we give an explicit construction of spherical code sequences. By making use of the idea involved in the proof of the Gilbert-Varshamov bound in coding theory, we construct a spherical code sequence in exponential time which meets the best-known asymptotic bound by Shamsiev and Wyner.     

Discovering non-terminating inputs for multi-path polynomial programs

This paper investigates the termination problems of multi-path polynomial programs （MPPs） with equational loop guards. To establish sufficient conditions for termination and nontermination simultaneously, the authors propose the notion of strong/weak non-termination which under/over- approximates non-termination. Based on polynomial ideal theory, the authors show that the set of all strong non-terminating inputs （SNTI） and weak non-terminating inputs （WNTI） both correspond to tile real varieties of certain polynomial ideals. Furthermore, the authors prove that the variety of SNTI is computable, and under some sufficient conditions the variety of WNTI is also computable. Then by checking the computed SNTI and WNTI varieties in parallel, termination properties of a consid- ered MPP can be asserted. As a consequence, the authors establish a new framework for termination analysis of MPPs.