Active Inference: Applicability to Different Types of Social Organization Explained through Reference to Industrial Engineering and Quality Management

Active inference is a physics of life process theory of perception, action and learning that is applicable to natural and artificial agents. In this paper, active inference theory is related to different types of practice in social organization. Here, the term social organization is used to clarify that this paper does not encompass organization in biological systems. Rather, the paper addresses active inference in social organization that utilizes industrial engineering, quality management, and artificial intelligence alongside human intelligence. Social organization referred to in this paper can be in private companies, public institutions, other for-profit or not-for-profit organizations, and any combination of them. The relevance of active inference theory is explained in terms of variational free energy, prediction errors, generative models, and Markov blankets. Active inference theory is most relevant to the social organization of work that is highly repetitive. By contrast, there are more challenges involved in applying active inference theory for social organization of less repetitive endeavors such as one-of-a-kind projects. These challenges need to be addressed in order for active inference to provide a unifying framework for different types of social organization employing human and artificial intelligence.     

决策者具有(严格)凸性偏好结构下的一类交互式多目标决策方法

为了更好地解决决策者具有(严格)凸性偏好结构下的多目标决策问题,一般目标空间为有界凸域的情形常常可以转化为目标空间为有界闭凸区域的情形,首先分析了切割平面及该平面上偏好最优点与被切割平面分割成的为有界闭凸区域的目标空间或目标空间的子集的两个部分之间的关系;然后分析并指出了对于包含全局偏好最优目标方案点的为有界闭凸域的目标空间及其子集(准最优目标集),在确定了切割平面上的偏好最优点后,通过适当地选取供决策者与切割平面的偏好最优点进行比较判断的目标方案点,经过一次比较就可以确定一个新的范围更小的包含全局偏好最优目标方案点的目标空间的有界闭凸子区域(准最优目标集).为获取切割平面上的偏好最优点,提出了改进的坐标轮换法.在这些结论和方法的基础上,提出了决策者具有(严格)凸性偏好结构下的一类交互式多目标决策方法,要求决策者提供较易的偏好性息,决策效能较好.     

Integrated inventory models considering permissible delay in payment and variant pricing strategy

The allocation of cost savings is very important for the success of the joint relationship between the buyer and vendor in supply chain management. This paper develops integrated models with permissible delay in payments for determining the optimal replenishment time interval and replenishment frequency. In addition, the variant pricing strategy is employed to obtain both sides’ cost savings in order to entice buyers to join long-term cooperative relationships. A simple solution algorithm is presented to allocate the cost savings in the integration model, and a numerical example is used to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed integration models.     

物理实验管理系统的构建与实现

介绍了通过运用网络平台构建物理实验中心的管理系统,以实现学生选课、成绩管理、教学信息管理和发布、教学资料的上网及仪器管理等一系列的功能,使物理实验中心的各项工作有序而高效.     

Risk externalities and too big to fail

This paper establishes the case for a fallacy of economies of scale in large aggregate institutions and the effects of scale risks. The problem of rogue trading and excessive risk taking is taken as a case example. Assuming (conservatively) that a firm exposure and losses are limited to its capital while external losses are unbounded, we establish a condition for a firm not to be allowed to be too big to fail. In such a case, the expected external losses second derivative with respect to the firm capital at risk is positive. Examples and analytical results are obtained based on simplifying assumptions and focusing exclusively on the risk externalities that firms too big to fail can have.     

Forecasting cancellation rates for services booking revenue management using data mining

Revenue management (RM) enhances the revenues of a company by means of demand-management decisions. An RM system must take into account the possibility that a booking may be canceled, or that a booked customer may fail to show up at the time of service (no-show). We review the Passenger Name Record data mining based cancellation rate forecasting models proposed in the literature, which mainly address the no-show case. Using a real-world dataset, we illustrate how the set of relevant variables to describe cancellation behavior is very different in different stages of the booking horizon, which not only confirms the dynamic aspect of this problem, but will also help revenue managers better understand the drivers of cancellation. Finally, we examine the performance of the state-of-the-art data mining methods when applied to Passenger Name Record based cancellation rate forecasting.     

系统动力学在建设工程风险识别中的应用

首先根据建设工程建设程序,提出了建设工程建设阶段的风险管理.简单综述了系统动力学在项目管理中的应用,然后选取在项目实施期间,以项目承包商的视角,应用系统动力学方法对项目进行风险识别.由于篇幅所限,仅以工期风险为例,详细识别了造成工期风险的原因和风险发生后引起的后果,以及风险发生后通过系统内部调节后对自身的影响,证明了系统动力学在风险识别阶段应用的可行性和优越性.     

若干经济数学模型的研究与应用

本文论述了近些年我们在投入产出模型、广告最优随机控制模型、最佳营销管理模型以及时间序列—马尔可夫链组合预测模型等方面所做的研究工作，同时也论及国内外在上述几方面的研究状况．     

不同环保意识视角下的DEA效率模型

DEA在效率分析领域具有良好的应用,随着全球气候的不断恶劣和环境的逐渐破坏,公众环保意识不断增强,在进行相关效率研究时,非期望产出越来越受到重视。以非期望产出为主要研究点,根据社会对非期望产出指标的认识规律将环保意识分为五个不同阶段,并综合考虑每个意识阶段的特征,将环境指标变动能力,环境承载能力、环境负外部性参与度、外部环境政策管理及企业生产要求纳入DEA效率分析过程中,通过对目标函数和约束条件进行不同的改进和约束,构建了不同意识阶段的DEA效率分析模型,并探讨了各阶段模型的使用范围和相互关系。最后,选取一个实例进行试算,证明各DEA模型的可行性和有效性。     

考虑风险偏好的动态生产库存问题的鲁棒优化模型

不同阶段需求不确定情况下,决策者的风险偏好和生产过程中的废品处理影响着供应链生产库存管理和供应链整体效益。本文考虑决策者风险偏好下,构建了包含I个生产者企业,一个库存点和一个废物处理基地的T阶段动态供应链生产库存框架,建立了椭球型需求不确定集下,以追求整体收益最大化为目标的不确定优化模型,并应用鲁棒优化理论得到了数据确定性线性鲁棒对应模型,讨论了模型解的可靠性和有效性。最后的算例表明,只有当决策者风险偏好参数在一定范围内时,才会存在满足条件且具有较高可靠性的鲁棒决策,验证了该鲁棒优化模型的合理性。