A deterministic,multi-item inventory model with supplier selection and imperfect quality

This paper considers the scenario of supply chain with multiple products and multiple suppliers, all of which have limited capacity. We assume that received items from suppliers are not of perfect quality. Items of imperfect quality, not necessarily defective, could be used in another inventory situation. Imperfect items are sold as a single batch, prior to receiving the next shipment, at a discounted price. The demand over a finite planning horizon is known, and an optimal procurement strategy for this multi-period horizon is to be determined. Each of products can be sourced from a set of approved suppliers, a supplier-dependent transaction cost applies for each period in which an order is placed on a supplier. A product-dependent holding cost per period applies for each product in the inventory that is carried across a period in the planning horizon. Also a maximum storage space for the buyer in each period is considered. The decision maker, the buyer, needs to decide what products to order, in what quantities, with which suppliers, and in which periods. Finally, a genetic algorithm (GA) is used to solve the model.     

The Application of Mode-Locked Laser Technologies to Long Distance Transmission and Control of Soliton

The control scheme of long distance optical transmission is treated based on conception of mode-locked Laser cavity in this paper. The general mode-locking equation of fiber ring soliton Laser is first constructed, then we give the general perturbed nonlinear schrödinger equation, and finally the transmission and control equations of optical soliton communication systems with various different configurations, respectively, are obtained.     

Admission control of a service station when the arrivals are internal

All studies in the admission control of a service station make decisions at arrival epochs. When arrivals are internal and are rejected from a queue, the rejected jobs have to be routed to other stations in the system. However the system will not know whether a job will be admitted to a queue or not until its arrival epoch to that queue. Thus, the system has to react dynamically and agilely to the decisions made at a specific queue and may try several queues before finding a queue that admits the job. This paper remedies these difficulties by changing the decision epochs of the admission control from arrival epochs to departure epochs with the actions of switching (keeping) the arrival stream on or off. Thus upstream stations will have information on the admission status of their downstream stations all the time. It is proved that the optimal policy for this revised admission control system is of control limit type for an M/G/1 queue. Comparisons of the optimal values and optimal policies for the admission controls made at arrival epochs and at departure epochs are included in the paper.     

Control of flow rate in supercritical fluid chromatography

Summary Supercritical Fluid Chromatograph was constructed using two pumps and two restrictors. With this system in conjunction with the fused silica column packed with relatively large particles (40 μm), the flow rate was controlled both for isobaric and pressure programmed operations. Application of this system to the determination of molecular weight distribution of polystyrene oligomers was presented.     

Multiscale asymptotic method of optimal control on the boundary for heat equations of composite materials

In this paper, we study the optimal control on the boundary for parabolic equations with rapidly oscillating coefficients arising from the heat transfer problems and the optimal control on the boundary of composite materials or porous media. The multiscale asymptotic expansion of the solution for the problem in the case without any constraints is presented. We derive the proofs of all convergence results.     

Variational Inequalities for Leavable Bounded-Velocity Control

We study the variational inequality associated with a bounded-velocity control problem when discretionary stopping is allowed. We establish the existence of a strong solution by using the viscosity solution techniques. The optimal policy is shown to exist from the optimality conditions in the variational inequality.     

Robust Optimal Stopping-Time Control for Nonlinear Systems

Abstract. We formulate a robust optimal stopping-time problem for a state-space system and give the connection between various notions of lower value function for the associated games (and storage function for the associated dissipative system) with solutions of the appropriate variational inequality (VI) (the analogue of the Hamilton—Jacobi—Bellman—Isaacs equation for this setting). We show that the stopping-time rule can be obtained by solving the VI in the viscosity sense and a positive definite supersolution of the VI can be used for stability analysis.     

Continuous-time portfolio selection with liability: Mean–variance model and stochastic LQ approach

In this paper we formulate a continuous-time mean–variance portfolio selection model with multiple risky assets and one liability in an incomplete market. The risky assets’ prices are governed by geometric Brownian motions while the liability evolves according to a Brownian motion with drift. The correlations between the risky assets and the liability are considered. The objective is to maximize the expected terminal wealth while minimizing the variance of the terminal wealth. We derive explicitly the optimal dynamic strategy and the mean–variance efficient frontier in closed forms by using the general stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) control technique. Several special cases are discussed and a numerical example is also given.     

SW-Ⅱ型数显温控XL-Ⅰ箱形高温炉的故障及维修方法

运用电学的基本原理,对数显温控高温炉的故障进行了分析,在实践中总结出各种故障的发生原因、特征现象及解决方法。     

PKI域间互操作性研究

Internet作为电子商务和数字通信的基础平台面临着很多安全威胁.PKI技术为安全电子交易提供了保障.电子商务中.在不同的PKI域之间需要实现互操作.本文提出了一种不使用交叉证书的情况下连接多个独立的PKI域的新方法.该方法是将多个PKl域整合成一个PKI域来实现PKl域之间的互操作.本文采用形式化的方法来描述合并过程.