随机环境下堵塞可恢复的旅行者问题策略研究

针对旅行者在行走过程中遇到的某一或一系列无法预知堵塞事件的加拿大旅行者问题,考虑每个堵塞恢复时间是一个相互独立随机变量的情形,从在线问题与竞争策略的角度,给出了每个堵塞恢复时间都为正态分布下的等待策略和贪婪策略以及相应策略下的竞争比,并对两种策略的执行效果进行了分析和比较。     

基于指数分布的可恢复加拿大旅行者问题的策略研究

针对旅行者在行走过程中遇到的某一或一系列无法预知堵塞事件的加拿大旅行者问题,考虑每个堵塞恢复时间是一个相互独立随机变量且服从指数分布的情形,从在线问题与竞争策略的角度,给出了等待策略和贪婪策略以及相应策略下的竞争比,并对两种策略的执行效果进行了分析和比较.     

基于特殊路径的局内车辆路径问题混合策略研究

针对运输途中遇到的某一或一系列无法预知的堵塞事件对决策者路径选择策略的影响,考虑堵塞只发生在一条特殊路径上且可恢复的情况,采用局内竞争分析的思想,建立了局内车辆路径问题的数学模型,对车辆到达堵塞点时堵塞恢复时间未知这一情形下的路径选择问题,提出了两种混合策略,给出了相应的竞争比,并对其竞争性能进行了理论分析。     

竞争与合作统一框架下的鲁棒最优再保险策略

在实际中,多个保险人之间经常存在竞争与合作.文章在竞争与合作统一框架下,研究了鲁棒最优再保险策略.每个保险人的盈余过程满足扩散逼近保险模型,n个保险人的索赔之间存在相依关系,每个保险人通过再保险减少索赔风险.文章主要的研究目标是,在最坏市场环境下,寻找最优均衡再保险策略最大化终端财富的均值同时最小化其方差.通过使用随机动态规划和随机控制理论,求得了鲁棒最优均衡再保险策略、最优市场策略和最优值函数的显式解,并从理论上探讨了最优策略的经济意义.最终,通过数值实验分析了竞争、合作、模糊厌恶和风险厌恶对鲁棒最优均衡再保险策略的影响.文章的研究结果可以有效地指导保险人的实践.     

考虑相对业绩的最优投资选择博弈问题研究

研究了具有相互作用的两个竞争机构投资者之间的离散时间最优投资选择博弈问题,每个机构投资者都考虑其竞争对手的相对业绩.机构投资者可以投资于相同的无风险资产和不同的具有相关关系的风险股票,以反映投资的资产专门化.机构投资者选择投资组合策略使得期望终端绝对财富和相对财富的效用最大.首先,定义了Nash均衡投资组合选择策略.然后,在机构投资者具有指数效用函数的假设下,得到了Nash均衡投资组合选择策略和值函数的显示表达式,分析了机构投资者之间的竞争对Nash均衡投资组合选择策略的影响.最后,通过数值计算给出了各种情况下Nash均衡投资组合选择策略和值函数与模型主要参数之间的关系.结果表明:机构投资者之间的竞争会影响其对风险的承担,投资机会集对机构投资者的Nash均衡投资组合选择策略和值函数与模型主要参数之间的关系会产生很大的影响.     

两类相依保险业务下基于竞争的最优再保险策略

在再保险合同制定中,保险公司与再保险公司之间是竞争的.利用相对业绩,本文量化了这种竞争.进而假设保险公司从事两类相依保险业务,在竞争下,得到了保险公司的相对财富过程.保险公司的目标是,寻找最优时间一致的再保险策略最大化终端财富的均值同时最小化其方差.通过使用随机分析和随机控制理论,求得了最优时间一致的再保险策略和值函数的显式解,并从理论方面解释了最优解的保险和经济意义.最终,通过数值实验分析了模型参数对最优时间一致再保险策略的影响,比较了两类特殊情形与一般情形下最优再保险策略之间的关系.通过本文的研究得到了一些新的发现,研究结果可以更合理地指导保险公司的再保险决策.     

基于古诺博弈策略的报童问题的模型及分析

通过建立和分析基于古诺博弈策略的报童问题的数学模型,寻求两个销售商有重叠销售区域时的竞争价格策略优化方法.模型的主要特点是:基于蜂窝理论刻画每个销售商的营销区域呈正六边形,分析了相邻销售商有重叠销售区域时,如何确定最优竞争价格策略,保证其利润最大;其次,该模型把需求量看成价格的函数,将消费者与销售商的距离看成是影响实际消费行为的重要因素纳入到消费者密度函数.     

具有预知信息的集装箱码头泊位与岸桥联合调度在线模型

探讨了预知服务需求信息能力下的集装箱码头泊位与岸桥联合调度 over-list 在线模型. 在每个船舶服务请求释放时, 决策者预知后续 k(k \geq 2)个请求的信息,目标为最小化所有请求的最大完工时间. 针对由3个离散泊位组成的混合型泊位与4个岸桥, 以及只有大小两种服务请求的情形, 给出了预知任意 k \geq 2个请求下的竞争比下界; 同时, 对于k=2的特定情形, 给出了具有最优竞争比7/6 的在线策略. 数值实验进一步表明了所设计策略的良好执行性能.     

离散时间多期机构投资者之间的竞争与资产专门化

研究了两个风险厌恶的竞争的机构投资者之间的离散时间最优投资选择博弈模型,每个机构投资者都考虑其竞争对手的相对业绩.机构投资者可以投资于相同的无风险资产和不同的具有相关关系的风险股票,以反映投资的资产专门化.机构投资者选择动态投资策略使得终端绝对财富和相对财富的加权和的期望效用最大.首先,定义了Nash均衡投资策略.其次,在资产专门化和机构投资者具有指数效用函数下,得到了Nash均衡投资策略和值函数的显示表达式,分析了机构投资者之间的竞争对Nash均衡投资策略和值函数的影响.然后,在资产分散化和股票的收益率服从正态分布下,得到了Nash均衡投资策略和值函数的显示表达式,给出了Nash均衡投资策略和值函数与模型主要参数之间的关系.最后,通过数值计算给出了机构投资者采取专门化投资策略,还是分散化投资策略的条件.结果表明机构投资者之间的竞争会影响其对风险的承担,投资机会集对机构投资者的Nash均衡投资策略和值函数会产生很大的影响.     

局内经济决策问题的竞争分析--一种新的经济数学工具

基于优化领域的热点研究方向之一的局内问题与竞争策略理论,本文提出了局内经济决策问题的一系列概念,说明了处理局内经济决策问题的竞争策略和传统方法的区别以及后者的缺陷.构建了利用局内问题及其竞争策略研究局内经济决策问题的理论框架,并介绍了一个具体研究实例.     

Strategic competitive location: improving existing and establishing new facilities

Competitive facility location models consider two main strategies for increasing the market share captured by a chain subject to a budget constraint. One strategy is the improvement of existing facilities. The second strategy is the construction of new facilities. In this paper we analyse these two strategies as well as the joint strategy which is a combination of the two. All three strategies are formulated as a unified model. The best solution to an individual strategy is a feasible solution to the joint one. Therefore, the joint strategy must yield solutions that are at least as good as the solutions to each of the individual strategies. Based on the results of extensive experiments, we conclude that the increase in market share captured by a chain when the joint strategy is employed can be significantly higher than increases obtained by individual strategies. A branch and bound procedure and a tabu search heuristic are constructed for the solution of the unified model. Both algorithms performed very well on a set of test problems with up to 900 demand points. A total of 62% of the test problems were optimally solved by the branch and bound procedure.     

基于满意度的预约门诊排队策略研究

为了推进预约挂号服务在医院有效的应用,本文结合实际情形,提出了病人满意度度量的新指标——加权病人等待时间,建立了以最大化病人满意度为目标的排队模型,并分析了医院目前常用的两种预约排队策略:不同优先级预约排队策略与时间段优先型预约排队策略。通过两种预约策略的比较,得到后者优于前者;通过预约与非预约策略的比较,得到预约策略优于非预约策略。在此基础上,对两种预约策略进行优化分析,求解出两种预约策略分别对应的最佳预约与非预约病人比例。最后,通过数值分析说明了应用预约策略对改善病人等待满意度的合理性及有效性,并对应用预约策略达到更好的满意度提出了可行建议。     

Exploring strategy use and strategy flexibility in non-routine problem solving by primary school high achievers in mathematics

Many researchers have investigated flexibility of strategies in various mathematical domains. This study investigates strategy use and strategy flexibility, as well as their relations with performance in non-routine problem solving. In this context, we propose and investigate two types of strategy flexibility, namely inter-task flexibility (changing strategies across problems) and intra-task flexibility (changing strategies within problems). Data were collected on three non-routine problems from 152 Dutch students in grade 4 (age 9–10) with high mathematics scores. Findings showed that students rarely applied heuristic strategies in solving the problems. Among these strategies, the trial-and-error strategy was found to have a general potential to lead to success. The two types of flexibility were not displayed to a large extent in students’ strategic behavior. However, on the one hand, students who showed inter-task strategy flexibility were more successful than students who persevered with the same strategy. On the other hand, contrary to our expectations, intra-task strategy flexibility did not support the students in reaching the correct answer. This stemmed from the construction of an incomplete mental representation of the problems by the students. Findings are discussed and suggestions for further research are made.     

消费者偏好下的两在位制造商阻止策略选择研究

讨论生产高质量产品和生产低质量产品的两个在位制造商阻止生产中等质量产品的潜在制造商进入市场策略,考虑消费者产品质量偏好,分别建立了两个在位制造商采取不改变定价策略、采取联合定价阻止策略以及采取联合产量阻止策略模型,分析不同阻止策略对产品价格、在位制造商利润和潜在制造商进入成本的影响.数值分析结果研究表明,当进入成本高于某个阈值时,在位制造商不用采取任何阻止策略潜在制造商都不会进入市场.当进入成本适中时,相比其他两种阻止策略,两个在位制造商采取联合产量阻止策略会使潜在制造商的最低进入成本最大,这种策略下生产高质量产品的在位制造商利润最大,而生产低质量产品的在位制造商的利润最小.     

Pre-commitment vs. time-consistent strategies for the generalized multi-period portfolio optimization with stochastic cash flows

In this paper, we propose a multi-period portfolio optimization model with stochastic cash flows. Under the mean–variance preference, we derive the pre-commitment and time-consistent investment strategies by applying the embedding scheme and backward induction approach, respectively. We show that the time-consistent strategy is identical to the optimal open-loop strategy. Also, under the exponential utility preference, we develop the optimal strategy for multi-period investment, which is time-consistent. We show that the above two time-consistent strategies are equivalent in some cases. We compare the pre-commitment and time-consistent strategies under different situations with some numerical simulations. The results indicate that the time-consistent strategy is more stable and secure than pre-commitment strategy under the generalized mean–variance criterion.     

A capacitated firm’s pricing strategies for strategic consumers with different search costs

This paper studies pricing strategies of a seller with budget constraints facing two types of strategic consumers with different search costs, and proposes three pricing strategies to motivate all consumers to visit his shop. These are the basic price strategy, differentiated compensation strategy and an improved differentiated compensation strategy. Based on the rational expectations paradigm, we characterize the rational expectations equilibrium in the game and propose a basic pricing strategy. In order to address the interplay between price and demand, we further propose a differentiated compensation strategy to improve the basic model. We then compare the differentiated compensation strategy to the basic pricing strategy when both are feasible. We find that selection of the optimal strategy is independent of composition of consumers but is dependent on the seller’s budget level and the difference between the two search costs. If the budget is large enough and the difference between the search costs is small enough, a differentiated compensation strategy can further improve the seller’s profitability. In addition to these findings, we first propose an improved differentiated compensation strategy to further enhance the firm’s profit. We find that the optimal strategy is to implement the improved differentiated compensation strategy when all three strategies are feasible. Interestingly, the firm may benefit from paying a high compensation to the consumers.     

Challenge Versus Exchange in Collective Decision Making: A Comparison of Two Simulation Models Based on Simulated Data

In collective decision making, actors can use different influence strategies to get their way. Differences in influence strategies may, or may not, be connected to differences in collective outcomes. This research studies two influence strategies: the exchange strategy and the challenge strategy. In the existing literature, these strategies are analyzed and compared using simulation models in which actor behavior regarding influence attempts based on one of the strategies is modeled explicitly. Until now, these models have been tested only empirically on limited data sets. However, a theoretical test is necessary to gain more precise insights in the effect of characteristics of collective decision making situations on the collective outcomes. In the present research, computer simulations are used in a structured comparison of two competing models (the iterative exchange model and challenge model). The analyses show that the outcomes of both models are captured for a large part in the actor characteristics on the issues. Besides this, the expected directions of challenges and exchanges play a major part in explaining the outcomes of the models. This research shows that the use of simulated data allows a structured search of the input space, which led to new insights into the iterative exchange model and challenge model, and therefore in the exchange strategy and the challenge strategy.     

STAR-GARCH模型与股票市场投资策略非线性

本文首次基于投资者异质性和行为金融理论,从投资者风险偏好的角度度量市场情绪,应用STAR-GARCH模型,对我国股票市场投资策略的非线性转换进行了实证研究。研究结果表明:(1)我国股票市场投资策略表现出明显的两机制,说明我国股票市场存在显著的投资者异质性;(2)当市场情绪指数分别为0.06和0.046时,沪深股票投资策略处于中间机制,表现为偏向理性投资策略,而当市场情绪指数大于约0.6或小于约-0.5时,沪深股票投资策略处于外机制,表现为偏向噪音交易策略,在两种机制间,存在着投资策略的非线性转换;(3)当沪深股票投资策略处于中间机制时,股票市场日收益率平均波动更小,因而表现得更稳定。