Aggregate production planning for process industries under oligopolistic competition

We consider a competitive version of the traditional aggregate production planning model with capacity constraints. In the general case, multiple products are produced by a few competing producers (oligopoly) with limited capacities. Production quantities, prices and consequently profits depend on production and allocation decisions of each producer. In addition, there is competition for the raw material whose supplies are limited, and where prices reflect these limitations. Such situations have recently occurred in several process industry settings including petro-refining, petrochemicals, basic chemicals, cement, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, rubber, paper, food processing and metals. We use a successive “Bertrand–Cournot” framework to address this problem and to determine optimal production quantities, prices and profits at the producers and at the raw material supplier. Our analysis allows a new way to understand and evaluate the marginal value of additional capacity when there is competition for the market and raw materials.     

Characterizations of competition multigraphs

The notion of a competition multigraph was introduced by C. A. Anderson, K. F. Jones, J. R. Lundgren, and T. A. McKee [C. A. Anderson, K. F. Jones, J. R. Lundgren, and T. A. McKee: Competition multigraphs and the multicompetition number, Ars Combinatoria 29B (1990) 185-192] as a generalization of the competition graphs of digraphs.In this note, we give a characterization of competition multigraphs of arbitrary digraphs and a characterization of competition multigraphs of loopless digraphs. Moreover, we characterize multigraphs whose multicompetition numbers are at most m, where m is a given nonnegative integer and give characterizations of competition multihypergraphs.     

两种群竞争系统持续生存的条件

本文研究两种群竞争系统持续存在性和全局渐近稳定性。新近文〔２〕保持了文〔１〕的条件而推广了方程，文〔３〕减弱了文〔１〕的条件。我们则改进文〔１〕的条件，但与文〔３〕中定理１的条件互不包含，且有新意。     

Solving a Huff-like competitive location and design model for profit maximization in the plane

A chain wants to set up a single new facility in a planar market where similar facilities of competitors, and possibly of its own chain, are already present. Fixed demand points split their demand probabilistically over all facilities in the market proportionally with their attraction to each facility, determined by the different perceived qualities of the facilities and the distances to them, through a gravitational or logit type model. Both the location and the quality (design) of the new facility are to be found so as to maximise the profit obtained for the chain. Several types of constraints and costs are considered.     

具有时滞的非自治Lotka-Volterra竞争系统的持久与灭绝

本文研究具有纯时滞的一般Ｎ－种群非自治Ｌｏｔｋａ－Ｖｏｌｔｅｒｒａ竞争系统的持久性和灭绝性．一些新的判别准则被建立．文献［８－１０］中得到的关于无时滞非自治Ｌｏｔｋａ－Ｖｏｌｔｅｒｒａ竞争系统的结果被改进和推广．     

DISCUSSION ON TWO PROBLEMS OF THEORETICAL MECHANICS IN COLLEGE MECHANICS COMPETITION1)

针对两道力学竞赛试题,从欧拉动力学方程出发分别给出了更加简化的固连系选取方法,分别命名为"Serret-Andoyer近似固连系"和"虚固连系",在此基础上对第1届全国青年力学竞赛理论力学试题第9题,拓展讨论了大球同步旋转时,小球的稳 定性条件,结果表明后者的稳定临界转速要求更低,这将更有利于提高旋转结构的稳定性;对第12届全国周培源大学生力学 竞赛第3题,剖析了任一纬度的运动规律,发现当体系初始角动量为零时会出现一种简洁又优美的运动模式。     

An age-structured within-host HIV model with T-cell competition

Recent studies demonstrate that resource competition is an essential component of T-cell proliferation in HIV progression, which can contribute instructively to the disease development. In this paper, we formulate an age-structured within-host HIV model, in the form of a hyperbolic partial differential equation (PDE) for infected target cells coupled with two ordinary differential equations for uninfected T-cells and the virions, to explore the effects of both the T-cell competition and viral shedding variations on the viral dynamics. The basic reproduction number is derived for a general viral production rate which determines the local stability of the infection-free equilibrium. Two special forms of viral production rates, which are extensively investigated in previous literature, the delayed exponential distribution and a step function rate, are further investigated, where the original system can be reduced into systems of delay differential equations. It is confirmed that there exists a unique positive equilibrium for two special viral production rates when the basic reproduction number is greater than one. However, the model exhibits the phenomenon of backward bifurcation, where two positive steady states coexist with the infection-free equilibrium when the basic reproduction number is less than one.     

对“与封堵溃口有关的重物落水后运动过程的数学建模”的竞赛综述

为了使广大读者熟悉和了解全国研究生数学建模竞赛的相关情况,以2010年B题为例,从命题背景及过程、问题的解答及评审情况和存在的问题等三个方面对该题的整体情况进行介绍.     

Partial extinction,permanence and global attractivity in nonautonomous <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>-species Lotka-Volterra competitive systems with impulses

In this paper, the qualitative properties of general nonautonomous Lotka-Volterra n-species competitive systems with impulsive effects are studied. Some new criteria on the permanence, extinction and global attractivity of partial species are established by used the methods of inequalities estimate and Liapunov functions. As applications, nonautonomous two species Lotka-Volterra systems with impulses are discussed.     

Periodical cicadas: A minimal automaton model

The Magicicada spp. life cycles with its prime periods and highly synchronized emergence have defied reasonable scientific explanation since its discovery. During the last decade several models and explanations for this phenomenon appeared in the literature along with a great deal of discussion. Despite this considerable effort, there is no final conclusion about this long standing biological problem. Here, we construct a minimal automaton model without predation/parasitism which reproduces some of these aspects. Our results point towards competition between different strains with limited dispersal threshold as the main factor leading to the emergence of prime numbered life cycles.