需求受库存水平影响的短生命周期物品延迟订货的库存管理

像计算机、电视机、空调等这类具有物理变质的可能性很小,但生命周期较短、不断更新换代、价值不断贬值的电子产品会发生无形变质的现象.在假设无形变质率与需求率负相关,同时在产品的存储过程中,考虑库存水平对销售量的影响情况下,研究需求受库存水平影响、且缺货时存在延迟订货的短生命周期物品的库存管理问题.创新之处在于考虑了产品的缺货问题;在允许缺货的条件下,建立了短生命周期物品的库存模型;运用数值算例进行了求解和验证;并对各参数进行了敏感性分析.     

基于多种用海功能的海域使用权拍卖机制研究

海域使用权拍卖是对海域资源进行市场化配置的重要方式.基于海域资源的立体性和层次性特征,提出了多种用海功能约束下的海域使用权拍卖机制,设计了综合效用函数,对海域使用权进行经济价值与生态补偿的综合评价,促进海域资源的多层次利用与开发.仿真结果表明:相比较于单一功能的海域使用权拍卖,多属性拍卖能够改善海域使用权拍卖效率,同时拍卖结果也提高了政府对海域使用权拍卖的满意度和最终效用,为我国海域使用权拍卖方式的创新提供了理论基础.     

短视型创新企业最优定价研究

率先创新使企业拥有时间和产品竞争力上的优势,获得先动优势;而模仿创新减少企业的研发成本,更能满足顾客的需求,从而可以获得更高的成功率,使模仿创新企业获得后进优势.针对短视型创新企业行为,研究以原始创新产品进入市场、模仿创新产品进入市场、原始创新产品的升级换代产品进入市场为分隔点的产品生命周期不同阶段下率先创新企业对产品的最优定价,以及模仿创新企业采用不同价格策略下的产品均衡定价.结论表明:无论企业采用什么价格策略,升级换代产品进入市场的最优时间都应满足升级换代产品进入市场前创新企业的阶段末瞬时利润率与进入市场后的初始瞬时利润率相等.     

On some measures and distances for positive random variables

A number of conventional measures of risk as real‐valued functions on the space of positive random variables are considered: the expected shortfall, the mean excess over the threshold, the stop‐loss and some others. Ordering of risks, based on these measures and the distances between corresponding distribution functions, are described. The perturbed measures, describing the effect of changing environment, are discussed. These measures are defined by the accelerated life and proportional hazards models widely used in reliability and survival analysis. The case of a random environment is of a prime interest in the paper. The main result states that if, for instance, the stochastic environment is ‘neutral in expectation’ with respect to the baseline one, the distance between the corresponding distribution functions can be still sufficiently large. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Markov Model of Production, Trade, and Money: Theory and Artificial Life Simulation

The paper generalizes the Kiyotaki-Wright trade model by treatingthe trading period as a finite game, so Nash's theorem can be used to provethe existence of equilibrium, and by treating the economy as a Markovprocess, so an ergodic theorem can be used to show the existence ofequilibria with desirable properties (e.g., in which money exists). A Markovmodel of trade also allows us to add complexity to the economy withoutadding corresponding complexity to the analysis of the model's properties.The paper also provides artificial life simulations of the Markov economysuggesting that monetary equilibria are dynamically stable and do notrequire high levels of learning or information processing on the part ofagents.     

Spherophylon,the concept of life at a level higher than that of the individual

A new term, spherophylon, indicates a unit of life higher than the individual level. To define this term, critical notes are given on the meaning of age in terms of life, the interrelationships among the elements of biodiversity, and an analogy of development between the multicellular body of an individual and the spherophylon. Life is compared at various levels; at the level of the cell, the individual as a multicellular organism, and the spherophylon. The biology of the spherophylon is discussed in the context of integrative biology.