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     

设备无关显示软件的开发

介绍了用Visual C 6．0开发能够实现设备无关显示的软件。通过获取窗口到视口的映射比例系数，使得无论采用多大的显示器、无论将显示区域的纵横比调为多大、无论采用多高的显示分辨率，都能够按照对象的物理尺寸进行真实大小的显示，使应用程序用户界面更加友好。     

NSRL-XAFS光束线弧矢聚焦双晶单色器设计

针对XAFS光束线能量动态扫描的实验特点，介绍了弧矢聚焦双晶单色器的物理设计：包括晶体光学结构、性能参数计算、晶体热载分析和弧矢弯曲原理．弧矢缩比选择为1：4．88，水平接收角由原来的1mrad拓宽到3mrad，在不改变基本配置的情况下，获得了样品上束癍缩小、光子通量高达半个量级以上的增益．     

课表的多指标数学模型及解决方法

课程表问题又称时间表问题(timetable problem)，是一个多指标的优化决策问题，也是组合规划中的典型问题．对已有的时间表问题进行探讨，并研究其数学模型及解决方法．     

一种旋转式发动机缸体内型腔线建模与创成的研究

旋转式发动机缸体内型腔曲线属“双弧长短幅旋轮线”，在建立数学模型后利用计算机由VB完成其动态创成．可视化程度高，与AutoLISP程序设计结合，可实现缸体的CAD。     

PDE-Based Medial Axis Extraction and Shape Manipulation of Arbitrary Meshes

Shape skeletonization （i.e., medial axis extraction） is powerful in many visual computing applications, such as pattern recognition, object segmentation, registration, and animation. In this paper, the authors expand the use of diffusion equations combined with distance field information to approximate medial axes of arbitrary 3D differential properties. It offers an alternative solids represented by polygonal meshes based on their but natural way for medial axis extraction for commonly used 3D polygonal models. By solving the PDE along time axis, this system can not only quickly extract diffusion-based medial axes of input meshes, but also allow users to visualize the extraction process at each time step. In addition, the proposed model provides users a set of manipulation toolkits to sculpt extracted medial axes, then use diffusion-based techniques to recover corresponding deformed shapes according to the original input datasets. This skeleton-based shape manipulation offers a fast and easy way for animation and deformation of complicated mesh objects.     

Systemic Intervention in a University Department: Reflections on Arrested Action Research

This paper reflects on my experience as an insider researcher attempting to use critical systems ideas and practices to promote quality improvement in a university engineering department. Reflection is a key part of learning. This paper is intended to contribute to critically, self-reflective learning for the community of systems practitioners. These reflections on my questions about participation, ethics, politics of process, and the choices and actions resulting from them may help others to formulate their own. The complexity of systems practice places substantial demands on the researcher, particularly in the case of insider, practitioner research. Nevertheless, the exploration of critical systems approaches to critique boundaries and structure ‘problems’ in the core aspects of higher education in locally meaningful ways should continue. While demanding, it still can work to promote learning about authentic quality.     

革新西藏大学计算机专业课教学的几点建议

计算机技术人才是我区“实现跨越式发展和长治久安”的战略性目标基本资源,是我区实现“信息化带动工业化”的人才支撑。我校担负着培养本地区计算机人才的主要任务。文章分析了就我校计算机专业课教学中目前存在的诸多“不相适应”现象,做了调查分析,并依此提出了几点教学革新建议。     

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.