The transshipment is an important issue in the current marine transportation. This paper constructed a mathematical programming model to elaborate the transshipment port selection for the shipping company. This model ...The transshipment is an important issue in the current marine transportation. This paper constructed a mathematical programming model to elaborate the transshipment port selection for the shipping company. This model is tested by the data collected from the ports of Hong Kong and Kaohsiung. The results show that this model can be used to explain the transshipment competition relationship between the ports of Hong Kong and Kaohsiung well. A sensitivity analysis was also executed. The sensitivity analysis results showed that both the port of Hong Kong and Kaohsiung should decrease the charges of port and increase the effi- ciency of loading and discharging. Based on the sensitivity analysis results, some interesting conclusions and helpful suggestions were obtained for the managers of the ports of Hong Kong and Kaohsiung to improve their port management.展开更多
Sustainable development has been a global issue, which focuses on balancing human needs with the earth' s health. In this paper, we construct a model to distinguish the sustainability of a country. To evaluate the s...Sustainable development has been a global issue, which focuses on balancing human needs with the earth' s health. In this paper, we construct a model to distinguish the sustainability of a country. To evaluate the sustainability of a country, we select eight metrics based on four aspects: Society, Economics, Ecology and Politics. We use BP neural network to obtain the sustainability ranking and use Grey Relational Analysis to calculate the sustainability scores of 187countries. By combining the ranking and the score, we develop a measure to define whether a country is sustainable or not. The critical point is Maldives, which ranks No. 103 and scores 63.65. As one of least developed countries, Uganda ranks No.164 and scores 48.79, according to our measure. Based on Uganda' s society, population, natural resources, etc., we draft a 20-year (2013-2033) sustainable development plan that integrates the social, economic, ecological and political components. The overall goal of the plan is to transform Uganda into a sustainable country and make noticeable progress in the ranking. Furthermore, to analyze changes' influence on our plan, we take climate change as an example. The weights of Environment and Health will be modified by climate change, causing a reduction in the growth rate of sustainability score.展开更多
Since the second half of the 20th century in Italy, following farming conversion or abandonment, many traditional agricultural systems and the connected landscapes along with them have disappeared. We discuss a concep...Since the second half of the 20th century in Italy, following farming conversion or abandonment, many traditional agricultural systems and the connected landscapes along with them have disappeared. We discuss a conceptual framework to understand and describe changing in agricultural landscapes. According to us, the traditionality of the agricultural landscape is an expression of the local coevolution between the social project of the farmer and the constraints made by the natural system. The paper focuses on defining a spatial-temporal analytical model based on both the morphological recognition of different typologies of elements which contribute to the environmental landscape mosaic and the dynamic observation of the transformations of the mosaic itself. We identify the natural, social and economic driving forces involved in defining the agricultural space using a transdisciplinary approach so that ecological, agronomics and socio-economical information must be integrated as a basis for land use planning and management. The research approach and the methodology are applied to a couple of case studies.展开更多
Linear programming models have been widely used in input-output analysis for analyzing the interdependence of industries in economics and in environmental science.In these applications,some of the entries of the coeff...Linear programming models have been widely used in input-output analysis for analyzing the interdependence of industries in economics and in environmental science.In these applications,some of the entries of the coefficient matrix cannot be measured physically or there exists sampling errors.However,the coefficient matrix can often be low-rank.We characterize the robust counterpart of these types of linear programming problems with uncertainty set described by the nuclear norm.Simulations for the input-output analysis show that the new paradigm can be helpful.展开更多
In recent years,growing attention has been paid to the interval investigation of uncertainty problems.However,the contradiction between accuracy and efficiency always exists.In this paper,an iterative interval analysi...In recent years,growing attention has been paid to the interval investigation of uncertainty problems.However,the contradiction between accuracy and efficiency always exists.In this paper,an iterative interval analysis method based on Kriging-HDMR(IIAMKH)is proposed to obtain the lower and upper bounds of uncertainty problems considering interval variables.Firstly,Kriging-HDMR method is adopted to establish the meta-model of the response function.Then,the Genetic Algorithm&Sequential Quadratic Programing(GA&SQP)hybrid optimization method is applied to search for the minimum/maximum values of the meta-model,and thus the corresponding uncertain parameters can be obtained.By substituting them into the response function,we can acquire the predicted interval.Finally,an iterative process is developed to improve the accuracy and stability of the proposed method.Several numerical examples are investigated to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.Simulation results indicate that the presented IIAMKH can obtain more accurate results with fewer samples.展开更多
文摘The transshipment is an important issue in the current marine transportation. This paper constructed a mathematical programming model to elaborate the transshipment port selection for the shipping company. This model is tested by the data collected from the ports of Hong Kong and Kaohsiung. The results show that this model can be used to explain the transshipment competition relationship between the ports of Hong Kong and Kaohsiung well. A sensitivity analysis was also executed. The sensitivity analysis results showed that both the port of Hong Kong and Kaohsiung should decrease the charges of port and increase the effi- ciency of loading and discharging. Based on the sensitivity analysis results, some interesting conclusions and helpful suggestions were obtained for the managers of the ports of Hong Kong and Kaohsiung to improve their port management.
文摘Sustainable development has been a global issue, which focuses on balancing human needs with the earth' s health. In this paper, we construct a model to distinguish the sustainability of a country. To evaluate the sustainability of a country, we select eight metrics based on four aspects: Society, Economics, Ecology and Politics. We use BP neural network to obtain the sustainability ranking and use Grey Relational Analysis to calculate the sustainability scores of 187countries. By combining the ranking and the score, we develop a measure to define whether a country is sustainable or not. The critical point is Maldives, which ranks No. 103 and scores 63.65. As one of least developed countries, Uganda ranks No.164 and scores 48.79, according to our measure. Based on Uganda' s society, population, natural resources, etc., we draft a 20-year (2013-2033) sustainable development plan that integrates the social, economic, ecological and political components. The overall goal of the plan is to transform Uganda into a sustainable country and make noticeable progress in the ranking. Furthermore, to analyze changes' influence on our plan, we take climate change as an example. The weights of Environment and Health will be modified by climate change, causing a reduction in the growth rate of sustainability score.
文摘Since the second half of the 20th century in Italy, following farming conversion or abandonment, many traditional agricultural systems and the connected landscapes along with them have disappeared. We discuss a conceptual framework to understand and describe changing in agricultural landscapes. According to us, the traditionality of the agricultural landscape is an expression of the local coevolution between the social project of the farmer and the constraints made by the natural system. The paper focuses on defining a spatial-temporal analytical model based on both the morphological recognition of different typologies of elements which contribute to the environmental landscape mosaic and the dynamic observation of the transformations of the mosaic itself. We identify the natural, social and economic driving forces involved in defining the agricultural space using a transdisciplinary approach so that ecological, agronomics and socio-economical information must be integrated as a basis for land use planning and management. The research approach and the methodology are applied to a couple of case studies.
基金supported by National Social Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11BGL053)National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11101434,10971122 and 11101274)+4 种基金Scientific and Technological Projects of Shandong Province (Grant No. 2009GG10001012)Excellent Young Scientist Foundation of Shandong Province (Grant No. 2010BSE06047)the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant No. 20110073120069)Shandong Province Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. ZR2012GQ004)Independent Innovation Foundation of Shandong University (Grant No. 12120083399170)
文摘Linear programming models have been widely used in input-output analysis for analyzing the interdependence of industries in economics and in environmental science.In these applications,some of the entries of the coefficient matrix cannot be measured physically or there exists sampling errors.However,the coefficient matrix can often be low-rank.We characterize the robust counterpart of these types of linear programming problems with uncertainty set described by the nuclear norm.Simulations for the input-output analysis show that the new paradigm can be helpful.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11472137)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.309181A8801 and 30919011204).
文摘In recent years,growing attention has been paid to the interval investigation of uncertainty problems.However,the contradiction between accuracy and efficiency always exists.In this paper,an iterative interval analysis method based on Kriging-HDMR(IIAMKH)is proposed to obtain the lower and upper bounds of uncertainty problems considering interval variables.Firstly,Kriging-HDMR method is adopted to establish the meta-model of the response function.Then,the Genetic Algorithm&Sequential Quadratic Programing(GA&SQP)hybrid optimization method is applied to search for the minimum/maximum values of the meta-model,and thus the corresponding uncertain parameters can be obtained.By substituting them into the response function,we can acquire the predicted interval.Finally,an iterative process is developed to improve the accuracy and stability of the proposed method.Several numerical examples are investigated to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.Simulation results indicate that the presented IIAMKH can obtain more accurate results with fewer samples.