Morality,tax evasion,and equity

This paper considers tax evasion with morality and its implication for equity of the tax system. In the standard model of tax evasion without moral costs, higher-income taxpayers evade more, relative to their incomes, than lower-income taxpayers, and evasion makes the tax system regressive. With moral costs, equity of the tax system depends on the degree of morality. As the level of morality in society increases, it increases moral costs of evasion and evasion become inferior. Higher-income taxpayers evade less and pay more taxes, and evasion makes the tax system progressive for a high level of morality. The opposite holds true and evasion makes the tax system regressive for a low level of morality.     

Integrating the collection,fusion, and dissemination of traveler information in Edinburgh,Scotland

The Edinburgh traveler information system, currently being designed for the Edinburgh City Council (ECC), is notable both for its multifaceted approach to the challenges of traffic management in an urban setting and its ability to integrate past, present, and future elements. Integration plays a part in the system design in the following ways:

• •• integration of new and existing systems;
• •• linking together of several disparate systems and procedures;
• •• tight integration of response capabilities with the National Driver Information and Control System (NADICS) operated by the Scottish Office, covering interurban motorways;
• •• incorporation of modularity and flexibility to accommodate future integration.

In describing how the Edinburgh traveler information system is intended to operate, the paper refers to the different types of integration and shows how they are used to benefit the system.The paper begins with a Background outlining the physical, geographical, and institutional context for the system. The Council's environmentally aware policies are referred to, and existing and planned systems, both within and outside Edinburgh, which are relevant to Edinburgh traveler information are briefly described.Following the Background is an overview of the System Design, describing the value added by new elements of the Edinburgh traveler information system and the basic functions to be performed by the system. The Data Collection, Data Fusion, and Data Dissemination aspects of the system are then investigated individually. From the sections describing system structure and operations, it is apparent that the design aims to maximize the collection sources and dissemination mechanisms, but to consolidate the processing of all inputs and outputs in one central location. The system design can accommodate a number of diverse dissemination technologies to ensure that as many target audiences as possible will be exposed to the Information, e.g., variable message signs, remote display terminals, interactive telephone, electronic data exchange, etc.The System Benefits are then outlined and related to the Council policy objectives. The paper ends with a Conclusion and Outlook section which recaps the main points and looks ahead by identifying system enhancements which are anticipated to be integrated in the future.     

Bifurcation,chaos, and their control in a wheelset model

In this paper, we present an improved wheelset motion model with two degrees of freedom and study the dynamic behaviors of the system including the symmetry, the existence and uniqueness of the solution, continuous dependence on initial conditions, and Hopf bifurcation. The dynamic characteristics of the wheelset motion system under a nonholonomic constraint are investigated. These results generalize and improve some known results about the wheelset motion system. Meanwhile, based on multiple equilibrium analysis, calculation of Lyapunov exponents and Poincaré section, the chaotic behaviors of the wheelset system are discussed, which indicates that there are more complex dynamic behaviors in the railway wheelset system with higher order terms of Taylor series of trigonometric functions. This paper has also realized the chaos control and bifurcation control for the wheelset motion system by adaptive feedback control method and linear feedback control. The results show that the chaotic wheelset system and bifurcation wheelset system are all well controlled, whether by controlling the yaw angle and the lateral displacement or only by controlling the yaw angle. Numerical simulations are carried out to further verify theoretical analyses.     

New uniqueness proofs for the (5, 8, 24), (5, 6, 12) and related Steiner systems

New elementary proofs of the uniqueness of certain Steiner systems using coding theory are presented. In the process some of the codes involved are shown to be unique.The uniqueness proof for the (5, 8, 24) Steiner system is due to John Conway. The blocks of the system are used to generate a length 24 binary code. Any two such codes are then shown to be equivalent up to a permutation of the coordinates. This code turns out to be the extended Golay code.In the uniqueness proof for the (4, 7, 23) system, the blocks generate a length 23 code which is extended to a length 24 code. The minimum weight vectors of this larger code hold a (5, 8, 24) Steiner system. This result together with the previous one completes the proof. At this point it is also possible to conclude that the codes involved are unique and hence equivalent to the binary perfect Golay code and its extension.Continuing with the uniqueness result for the (3, 6, 22) Steiner system, the blocks generate a length 22 code which is extended to the same length 24 code by the addition of two coordinates and one additional vector. This extension ultimately requires the computation of the coset weight distribution of the length 22 code, a result heretofore unknown. The complete coset weight distribution for a specific (22, 11, 6) self-dual code is computed using the CAMAC computer system.The (5, 6, 12) and (4, 5, 11) Steiner systems are treated differently. It is shown that each system is completely determined by the choice of six blocks which may be assumed to lie in any such design. These six blocks in fact form a basis for length 12 (and 11) ternary codes corresponding to the two systems and may be generated by an algorithm independent of the designs. This algorithm is presented and the minimum weight vectors of the resulting codes, the perfect ternary Golay code and its extension, are calculated by the CAMAC system.     

Approximate Analysis of Decentralized, Multi-Stage, Pull-Type Production/Inventory Systems

We consider a decentralized, pull-type manufacturing system with each stage having its own input and output stock keeping activities. Material handling between stages is carried out according to a fixed quantity, non-constant withdrawal cycle. We approximate the system behavior using a two-node decomposition approach, which decomposes the system into smaller subsystems. The analysis of two-node subsystems is achieved using a matrix-recursive approach due to phase-type modeling of certain random variables. Our solution algorithm resolved a major difficulty (due to batch transfers) in the analytical approach to study multi-stage manufacturing systems. We also discuss system behavior and suggest several rules-of-thumb to improve system performance.     

Spectral reduction, complete damping, and stabilization of a delay system by a single controller

For a spectrally controllable linear autonomous differential-difference system of retarded type, we construct a dynamic state feedback that provides the complete damping of the original system and a finite spectrum of the closed-loop system. The closed-loop system can be made asymptotically stable by an appropriate choice of the spectrum. The results are illustrated by examples.     

球面、柱面、锥面与非线性控制系统

我们首先从整体化的观点定义了一种建立在三维欧氏空间的二维曲面上的非线性控制系统,并给出了在曲面的局部坐标系下非线性系统状态方程的表达式,研究了非线性系统的平衡态与曲面的测地线之间的关系.刻划了球面、柱面、锥面的特殊曲面几何结构和奇异结构与非线性控制系统之间的内在联系.进一步,讨论了建立在球面、柱面和锥面上的非线性控制系统的局部和整体能控性与能观测性.     

A Random Shock Model with Mixed Effect,Including Competing Soft and Sudden Failures,and Dependence

A system is considered, which is subject to external and possibly fatal shocks, with dependence between the fatality of a shock and the system age. Apart from these shocks, the system suffers from competing soft and sudden failures, where soft failures refer to the reaching of a given threshold for the degradation level, and sudden failures to accidental failures, characterized by a failure rate. A non-fatal shock increases both degradation level and failure rate of a random amount, with possible dependence between the two increments. The system reliability is calculated by four different methods. Conditions under which the system lifetime is New Better than Used are proposed. The influence of various parameters of the shocks environment on the system lifetime is studied.     

可修复人机储备系统稳态解的最优控制

针对可修复人机储备系统的模型,以范数指标泛函作为衡量系统可控性的标准,利用Banach空间理论讨论系统稳态解达到预期概率分布的最优控制问题,给出了其最优解存在唯一性.     

Social forecasting for company planning: Brian C. TWISS (Ed.) Macmillan,London, 1982, xxv + 310 pages, £25.00

The transportation system considered in this paper has a number of vehicles with no capacity constraint, which take passengers from a source terminal to various destinations and return to the terminal. The trip times are considered to be independent and identically distributed random variables with a common exponential distribution. Passengers arrive at the terminal in accordance with a Poisson process. The system is operated under the following policy: when a vehicle is available and there are at least α passengers waiting for service, then a vehicle is dispatched immediately. The passenger queue length and waiting time distributions are obtained under steady-state conditions. System performance measures such as average passenger queue length and waiting time are then derived. A minimum average cost criterion is then used to determine the optimal fleet size and dispatching policy. This is a generalization of the results of Weiss for a single-vehicle system.     

Consecutive-(r,f,k) out-of-n:F和Consecutive-(f,g)-out-of-(r,n):F线性系统的可靠性

Consecutive-(r,f,k)-out-of-n:F系统由n个单元顺序连结而成,仅当在连续的r个单元中,至少有f个失效或者至少连续k个失效,整个系统才失效;而Consecutive-(f,g)-out-of-(r,n):F系统由n个单元顺序连结而成,仅当在整个系统中至少有f个失效或者在连续的r个单元中,至少有g个失效,整个系统才失效。本文运用马氏链嵌入方法,在单元之间相互独立以及单元之间马氏相关这两种情况下,给出线性系统的可靠性。     

Change of economic structure-Capital, knowledge, population and pollution

This paper proposes a nonlinear dynamic economic model with endogenous technological change, population, capital accumulation and pollutant accumulation. The system consists of two, industrial and environmental, sectors. The industrial sector produces goods with knowledge, labor, and capital as inputs under perfect competitive conditions, subject to the government's tax policy. The tax income is used by the environmental sector to employ labor and capital. We examine the effects of the environmental policy, knowledge accumulation efficiency and preference change on the environment. We show that the simple system has multiple equilibria and may exhibit permanent oscillations.     

需求不确定的强势零售商的闭环供应链决策

建立了需求不确定下两个竞争的生产商和一个强势零售商组成的具有产品再制造的闭环供应链模型.利用逆向归纳法对不同废旧品回收渠道下的模型进行分析,然后通过算例分析了不同模型的回收成本和新增回收率对零售价格、回收模式决策、供应链系统及成员期望利润的影响.结果表明:回收成本的增加导致生产商和系统的期望利润降低,零售商领头下只有在零售商负责回收的模式中,零售商的期望利润才是增加的;新增回收率的增加,可降低产品的零售价,增加供应链成员的期望利润,继而提高整个供应链系统的利润.     

Optimal classification,exact solutions,and wave interactions of Euler system with large friction

We derive exact solutions of one-dimensional Euler system that accounts for gravity together with large friction. Certain optimal classes of subalgebra using Lie symmetry analysis are obtained for this system. We apply the reduction procedure to reduce the Euler system to a system of ordinary differential equations in terms of new similarity variable for each class of subalgebras leading to invariant solutions. The evolution of characteristic shock and its interaction with the weak discontinuity by using one of the invariant solutions is studied. Further, the properties of reflected and transmitted waves and jump in acceleration influenced by the incident wave have been characterized.     

PIGS,PARTIES, AND NOISE: HOW STOCHASTICITY IMPACTS THE ROBUSTNESS OF THE TSEMBAGA CULTURAL PRACTICES

Abstract We present a probabilistic perspective on sustainable resource usage. A mathematical model is introduced to describe the interplay between a population and its renewable resource base. The amount of effort a society chooses to exert in harvesting its resource is formalized in the model. Using an indigenous population of slash and burn farmers as a case study, we derive a system of stochastic differential equations from a system of ordinary differential equations introduced by another author. The cultural mechanisms that help to stabilize the population in the deterministic system actually decrease the expected survival time in the stochastic system.     

Center,Centroid, Extended Centroid,and Quotients of Jordan Systems

In this article we prove that the extended centroid of a nondegenerate Jordan system is isomorphic to the centroid (and to the center in the case of Jordan algebras) of its maximal Martindale-like system of quotients with respect to the filter of all essential ideals.     

On stability in one critical case : PMM vol. 43, no. 6, 1979, pp. 963–969

The problem on the stability of the trivial solution of an autonomous system of ordinary differential equations is solved in the critical case of one zero root, m pairs of pure imaginary roots, and q roots with negative real parts. It is proved that the presence of the zero root, as a rule, leads to instability, which can be detected already from the form of the second-order series expansion of the right hand sides of the equations. In the degenerate case necessary and sufficient stability conditions have been indicated for a model (simplified)system; it is shown that the absence of additional degeneracy the instability of the original system follows from that of the model. Sufficient conditions for the asymptotic stability and instability of the original system have been obtained under the fulfilment of the necessary stability conditions for the model system.     

An optimal control problem for a pest, predator, and plant system

The paper is devoted to an optimal control problem for a system of three nonlinear parabolic equations from population dynamics. The equations model a trophic chain consisting of a predator, a pest and a plant species. The existence and uniqueness of the positive solution for the system are proved. The control variable is connected with the action of a pesticide. Our goal is to minimize the density of the pest and to maximize the plant density. The existence of the optimal solution is proved. The first and second order optimality conditions are established.