In time-variant reliability problems,there are a lot of uncertain variables from different sources.Therefore,it is important to consider these uncertainties in engineering.In addition,time-variant reliability problems...In time-variant reliability problems,there are a lot of uncertain variables from different sources.Therefore,it is important to consider these uncertainties in engineering.In addition,time-variant reliability problems typically involve a complexmultilevel nested optimization problem,which can result in an enormous amount of computation.To this end,this paper studies the time-variant reliability evaluation of structures with stochastic and bounded uncertainties using a mixed probability and convex set model.In this method,the stochastic process of a limit-state function with mixed uncertain parameters is first discretized and then converted into a timeindependent reliability problem.Further,to solve the double nested optimization problem in hybrid reliability calculation,an efficient iterative scheme is designed in standard uncertainty space to determine the most probable point(MPP).The limit state function is linearized at these points,and an innovative random variable is defined to solve the equivalent static reliability analysis model.The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by two benchmark numerical examples and a practical engineering problem.展开更多
Analysis of catchment Land use/Land cover (LULC) change is a vital tool in ensuring sustainable catchment management. The study analyzed land use/land cover changes in the Rwizi catchment, south western Uganda from 19...Analysis of catchment Land use/Land cover (LULC) change is a vital tool in ensuring sustainable catchment management. The study analyzed land use/land cover changes in the Rwizi catchment, south western Uganda from 1989-2019 and projected the trend by 2040. Landsat images, field observations, key informant interviews and focus group discussions were used to collect data. Changes in cropland, forestland, built up area, grazing land, wetland and open water bodies were analyzed in ArcGIS version 10.2.2 and ERDAS IMAGINE 14 software and a Markov chain model. All the LULC classes increased in area except grazing land. Forest land and builtup area between 2009-2019 increased by 370.03% and 229.53% respectively. Projections revealed an increase in forest land and builtup area by 2030 and only built up area by 2040. LULCC in the catchment results from population pressure, reduced soil fertility and high value of agricultural products.展开更多
Surface defects,including dents,spalls,and cracks,for rolling element bearings are the most common faults in rotating machinery.The accurate model for the time-varying excitation is the basis for the vibration mechani...Surface defects,including dents,spalls,and cracks,for rolling element bearings are the most common faults in rotating machinery.The accurate model for the time-varying excitation is the basis for the vibration mechanism analysis and fault feature extraction.However,in conventional investigations,this issue is not well and fully addressed from the perspective of theoretical analysis and physical derivation.In this study,an improved analytical model for time-varying displacement excitations(TVDEs)caused by surface defects is theoretically formulated.First and foremost,the physical mechanism for the effect of defect sizes on the physical process of rolling element-defect interaction is revealed.According to the physical interaction mechanism between the rolling element and different types of defects,the relationship between time-varying displacement pulse and defect sizes is further analytically derived.With the obtained time-varying displacement pulse,the dynamic model for the deep groove bearings considering the internal excitation caused by the surface defect is established.The nonlinear vibration responses and fault features induced by surface defects are analyzed using the proposed TVDE model.The results suggest that the presence of surface defects may result in the occurrence of the dual-impulse phenomenon,which can serve as indexes for surface-defect fault diagnosis.展开更多
High-precision time-varying gravity field is an effective way to study the internal mass movement and understanding the spatio-temporal evolution process of the geodynamic system.Compared to the satellite gravity meas...High-precision time-varying gravity field is an effective way to study the internal mass movement and understanding the spatio-temporal evolution process of the geodynamic system.Compared to the satellite gravity measurement,the repeated terrestrial gravity observation can provide a more high-order signal related to the shallow crust and subsurface.However,the suitable and unified method for gravity model estimation is a key problem for further applications.In this study,we introduce the spherical hexahedron element to simulate the field source mass and forward model the change of gravity field located at the Sichuan-Yunnan region(99—104°E,23—29°N)in the four epochs from 2015 to 2017.Compared to the experimental results based on Slepian or spherical harmonics frequency domain method,this alternative approach is suitable for constructing the equivalent mass source model of regional-scale gravity data,by introducing the first-order smooth prior condition of gravity time-varying signal to suppress the high-frequency component of the signal.The results can provide a higher spatial resolution reference for regional gravity field modeling in the Sichuan-Yunnan region.展开更多
Retailing is a dynamic business domain where commodities and goods are sold in small quantities directly to the customers.It deals with the end user customers of a supply-chain network and therefore has to accommodate...Retailing is a dynamic business domain where commodities and goods are sold in small quantities directly to the customers.It deals with the end user customers of a supply-chain network and therefore has to accommodate the needs and desires of a large group of customers over varied utilities.The volume and volatility of the business makes it one of the prospectivefields for analytical study and data modeling.This is also why customer segmentation drives a key role in multiple retail business decisions such as marketing budgeting,customer targeting,customized offers,value proposition etc.The segmentation could be on various aspects such as demographics,historic behavior or preferences based on the use cases.In this paper,historic retail transactional data is used to segment the custo-mers using K-Means clustering and the results are utilized to arrive at a transition matrix which is used to predict the cluster movements over the time period using Markov Model algorithm.This helps in calculating the futuristic value a segment or a customer brings to the business.Strategic marketing designs and budgeting can be implemented using these results.The study is specifically useful for large scale marketing in domains such as e-commerce,insurance or retailers to segment,profile and measure the customer lifecycle value over a short period of time.展开更多
Modeling urban land-use dynamics is critical for urban experts’and infrastructure managers’planning.This study attempts to explore the land-use/land-cover(LULC)dynamics of Gondar using satellite images from 1984 to ...Modeling urban land-use dynamics is critical for urban experts’and infrastructure managers’planning.This study attempts to explore the land-use/land-cover(LULC)dynamics of Gondar using satellite images from 1984 to 2020.Markov-Chain and Cellular Automata(MC-CA)models have been recognized as performing well in predicting urban land-use change.However,only a few models work in Ethiopia in general,and no study in Gondar has applied this approach to study urban land-use patterns.Therefore,Gondar land-use/land cover changes of Gondar were predicted using the MC-CA model in IDRISI.The built-up area in Gondar city covered 1413 ha(3%of the total area)in 1984 and increased to 2380 ha(5%)in 1994;21153 ha(45.5%)in 2004;22622 ha(48.7%)in 2014;and 23427 ha(50.5%)in 2020.The area has been predicted to reach 57.5%in the 2050s,showing a faster increase that will cause a very vast loss of farmland.This will increase urban sprawl challenges as well as overall environmental disequilibrium in the preceding decade.Thus,innovative and careful structures and systems in urban planning are required to secure a sustainable urban future and to make our cities livable and competitive in the paradigm of sustainable cities.展开更多
In this paper,the distributed stochastic model predictive control(MPC)is proposed for the noncooperative game problem of the discrete-time multi-player systems(MPSs)with the undirected Markov jump graph.To reflect the...In this paper,the distributed stochastic model predictive control(MPC)is proposed for the noncooperative game problem of the discrete-time multi-player systems(MPSs)with the undirected Markov jump graph.To reflect the reality,the state and input constraints have been considered along with the external disturbances.An iterative algorithm is designed such that model predictive noncooperative game could converge to the socalledε-Nash equilibrium in a distributed manner.Sufficient conditions are established to guarantee the convergence of the proposed algorithm.In addition,a set of easy-to-check conditions are provided to ensure the mean-square uniform bounded stability of the underlying MPSs.Finally,a numerical example on a group of spacecrafts is studied to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.展开更多
目的基于Markov模型评价肺结节低剂量螺旋CT(LDCT)筛查的卫生经济学。方法利用2021年—2023年北京市某三甲医院的肺结节LDCT筛查数据和部分国外临床研究数据,采用成本效用分析方法,通过增量成本效用比(ICUR)确定优势筛查策略;使用R语言...目的基于Markov模型评价肺结节低剂量螺旋CT(LDCT)筛查的卫生经济学。方法利用2021年—2023年北京市某三甲医院的肺结节LDCT筛查数据和部分国外临床研究数据,采用成本效用分析方法,通过增量成本效用比(ICUR)确定优势筛查策略;使用R语言获得转移概率参数,利用TreeAge Pro 2011软件构建Markov模型。假设以我国10万名55岁及以上人群为肺结节筛查对象,模拟其疾病发展情况,并通过敏感性分析评价该模型的稳定性。结果成本效用分析显示,该模型经20次循环后,LDCT筛查策略的总成本为3543088618元,相较于不筛查策略的总成本增加了784130651元,额外获得了7996个质量调整生命年(QALY),每获得一个QALY需多花费98059.77元。采用WHO卫生经济学评价标准,LDCT筛查策略的ICUR大于1倍人均国内生产总值(GDP)但小于3倍人均GDP,为优势策略。敏感性分析显示,各变量在其敏感性分析范围内无论如何变化,都不会对ICUR产生较大影响,表明该模型具有较好的稳定性。结论在55岁及以上人群中开展每年一次肺结节LDCT筛查的ICUR小于3倍人均GDP,具有一定的经济学效用,该筛查策略有利于肺癌的“早发现、早诊断、早治疗”。展开更多
This paper proposes a Markov-switching copula model to examine the presence of regime change in the time-varying dependence structure between oil price changes and stock market returns in six GCC countries. The margin...This paper proposes a Markov-switching copula model to examine the presence of regime change in the time-varying dependence structure between oil price changes and stock market returns in six GCC countries. The marginal distributions are assumed to follow a long-memory model while the copula parameters are supposed to evolve according to the Markov-switching process. Furthermore, we estimate the Value-at-Risk (VaR) based on the proposed approach. The empirical results provide evidence of three regime changes, representing precrisis, financial crisis and post-crisis, in the dependence structure between energy and GCC stock markets. In particular, in the pre- and post-crisis regimes, there is no dependence, while in the crisis regime, there is significant tail dependence. For OPEC countries, we find lower tail dependence whereas in non-OPEC countries, we see upper tail dependence. VaR experiments show that the Markov-switching time- varying copula model performs better than the time-varying copula model.展开更多
目的:基于中国卫生服务体系角度评价血塞通软胶囊对比安慰剂治疗缺血性中风患者的经济性。方法:基于血塞通软胶囊的Ⅲ期对照试验和已发表的文献数据构建markov模型,模拟患者终身的质量调整生命年(quality-adjusted life year,QALY)和增...目的:基于中国卫生服务体系角度评价血塞通软胶囊对比安慰剂治疗缺血性中风患者的经济性。方法:基于血塞通软胶囊的Ⅲ期对照试验和已发表的文献数据构建markov模型,模拟患者终身的质量调整生命年(quality-adjusted life year,QALY)和增量成本效果比(Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio ICER),并进行单因素敏感性分析和概率敏感性分析检验模型的不确定性。结果:基础分析结果显示,与安慰剂组相比,血塞通软胶囊在获得0.32个QALY且节约医疗成本,具有绝对优势,单因素敏感性分析和概率敏感性分析验证了模型的稳健性。单因素敏感性分析显示对模型结果影响程度最大的4个因素分别是mRS3-5首次住院成本、mRS0-2首次住院成本、mRS0-2的状态效用值及贴现率;概率敏感性分析显示在我国的意愿支付值之下血塞通软胶囊具有经济性的概率为100%。结论:与安慰剂相比,血塞通软胶囊在提升QALY的同时降低了相应的成本,对治疗我国缺血性中风患者具有经济性。展开更多
为研究设备可用度对列车控制中心(TCC,Train Control Center)的影响和预测TCC的剩余使用寿命(RUL,Remaining Useful Life),降低TCC的故障发生率,确保车辆安全运行,构建TCC动态故障树模型。通过引入Markov理论,将其转化为Markov模型,设计...为研究设备可用度对列车控制中心(TCC,Train Control Center)的影响和预测TCC的剩余使用寿命(RUL,Remaining Useful Life),降低TCC的故障发生率,确保车辆安全运行,构建TCC动态故障树模型。通过引入Markov理论,将其转化为Markov模型,设计了TCC可用度评估与RUL预测方法;考虑了TCC的失效率和共因失效,利用D-S(Dempster-Shafer)证据理论对失效数据作数据融合处理,得到TCC设备初始故障区间概率;在此基础上,采用超椭球模型约束设备初始故障区间概率,得到更加精确的底事件故障区间概率;画出Markov状态转移图,用矩阵推导出TCC可用度和RUL的函数关系式,且对可用度的计算还考虑了维修因素。以兰州—乌鲁木齐客运专线某TCC数据作为分析案例,用该方法计算TCC及其各设备的可用度,并预测TCC的RUL。结果表明:与通用方法相比,评估结果相同,但评估信息更丰富。展开更多
基金partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52375238)Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou(202201020213,202201020193,202201010399)GZHU-HKUST Joint Research Fund(YH202109).
文摘In time-variant reliability problems,there are a lot of uncertain variables from different sources.Therefore,it is important to consider these uncertainties in engineering.In addition,time-variant reliability problems typically involve a complexmultilevel nested optimization problem,which can result in an enormous amount of computation.To this end,this paper studies the time-variant reliability evaluation of structures with stochastic and bounded uncertainties using a mixed probability and convex set model.In this method,the stochastic process of a limit-state function with mixed uncertain parameters is first discretized and then converted into a timeindependent reliability problem.Further,to solve the double nested optimization problem in hybrid reliability calculation,an efficient iterative scheme is designed in standard uncertainty space to determine the most probable point(MPP).The limit state function is linearized at these points,and an innovative random variable is defined to solve the equivalent static reliability analysis model.The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by two benchmark numerical examples and a practical engineering problem.
文摘Analysis of catchment Land use/Land cover (LULC) change is a vital tool in ensuring sustainable catchment management. The study analyzed land use/land cover changes in the Rwizi catchment, south western Uganda from 1989-2019 and projected the trend by 2040. Landsat images, field observations, key informant interviews and focus group discussions were used to collect data. Changes in cropland, forestland, built up area, grazing land, wetland and open water bodies were analyzed in ArcGIS version 10.2.2 and ERDAS IMAGINE 14 software and a Markov chain model. All the LULC classes increased in area except grazing land. Forest land and builtup area between 2009-2019 increased by 370.03% and 229.53% respectively. Projections revealed an increase in forest land and builtup area by 2030 and only built up area by 2040. LULCC in the catchment results from population pressure, reduced soil fertility and high value of agricultural products.
基金This work is sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52105117&52105118).
文摘Surface defects,including dents,spalls,and cracks,for rolling element bearings are the most common faults in rotating machinery.The accurate model for the time-varying excitation is the basis for the vibration mechanism analysis and fault feature extraction.However,in conventional investigations,this issue is not well and fully addressed from the perspective of theoretical analysis and physical derivation.In this study,an improved analytical model for time-varying displacement excitations(TVDEs)caused by surface defects is theoretically formulated.First and foremost,the physical mechanism for the effect of defect sizes on the physical process of rolling element-defect interaction is revealed.According to the physical interaction mechanism between the rolling element and different types of defects,the relationship between time-varying displacement pulse and defect sizes is further analytically derived.With the obtained time-varying displacement pulse,the dynamic model for the deep groove bearings considering the internal excitation caused by the surface defect is established.The nonlinear vibration responses and fault features induced by surface defects are analyzed using the proposed TVDE model.The results suggest that the presence of surface defects may result in the occurrence of the dual-impulse phenomenon,which can serve as indexes for surface-defect fault diagnosis.
基金funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1839207,U1939205)the earthquake tracking directional work task of China Earthquake Administration(No.DZ2022010214)+1 种基金Key project of Spark Program of Seismic Science and Technology of China Earthquake Administration(No.XH20008)S&T Program of Hebei(21375411D)。
文摘High-precision time-varying gravity field is an effective way to study the internal mass movement and understanding the spatio-temporal evolution process of the geodynamic system.Compared to the satellite gravity measurement,the repeated terrestrial gravity observation can provide a more high-order signal related to the shallow crust and subsurface.However,the suitable and unified method for gravity model estimation is a key problem for further applications.In this study,we introduce the spherical hexahedron element to simulate the field source mass and forward model the change of gravity field located at the Sichuan-Yunnan region(99—104°E,23—29°N)in the four epochs from 2015 to 2017.Compared to the experimental results based on Slepian or spherical harmonics frequency domain method,this alternative approach is suitable for constructing the equivalent mass source model of regional-scale gravity data,by introducing the first-order smooth prior condition of gravity time-varying signal to suppress the high-frequency component of the signal.The results can provide a higher spatial resolution reference for regional gravity field modeling in the Sichuan-Yunnan region.
文摘Retailing is a dynamic business domain where commodities and goods are sold in small quantities directly to the customers.It deals with the end user customers of a supply-chain network and therefore has to accommodate the needs and desires of a large group of customers over varied utilities.The volume and volatility of the business makes it one of the prospectivefields for analytical study and data modeling.This is also why customer segmentation drives a key role in multiple retail business decisions such as marketing budgeting,customer targeting,customized offers,value proposition etc.The segmentation could be on various aspects such as demographics,historic behavior or preferences based on the use cases.In this paper,historic retail transactional data is used to segment the custo-mers using K-Means clustering and the results are utilized to arrive at a transition matrix which is used to predict the cluster movements over the time period using Markov Model algorithm.This helps in calculating the futuristic value a segment or a customer brings to the business.Strategic marketing designs and budgeting can be implemented using these results.The study is specifically useful for large scale marketing in domains such as e-commerce,insurance or retailers to segment,profile and measure the customer lifecycle value over a short period of time.
文摘Modeling urban land-use dynamics is critical for urban experts’and infrastructure managers’planning.This study attempts to explore the land-use/land-cover(LULC)dynamics of Gondar using satellite images from 1984 to 2020.Markov-Chain and Cellular Automata(MC-CA)models have been recognized as performing well in predicting urban land-use change.However,only a few models work in Ethiopia in general,and no study in Gondar has applied this approach to study urban land-use patterns.Therefore,Gondar land-use/land cover changes of Gondar were predicted using the MC-CA model in IDRISI.The built-up area in Gondar city covered 1413 ha(3%of the total area)in 1984 and increased to 2380 ha(5%)in 1994;21153 ha(45.5%)in 2004;22622 ha(48.7%)in 2014;and 23427 ha(50.5%)in 2020.The area has been predicted to reach 57.5%in the 2050s,showing a faster increase that will cause a very vast loss of farmland.This will increase urban sprawl challenges as well as overall environmental disequilibrium in the preceding decade.Thus,innovative and careful structures and systems in urban planning are required to secure a sustainable urban future and to make our cities livable and competitive in the paradigm of sustainable cities.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62122063,62073268,U22B2036,11931015)the Young Star of Science and Technology in Shaanxi Province(2020KJXX-078)+1 种基金the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars(62025602)the XPLORER PRIZE。
文摘In this paper,the distributed stochastic model predictive control(MPC)is proposed for the noncooperative game problem of the discrete-time multi-player systems(MPSs)with the undirected Markov jump graph.To reflect the reality,the state and input constraints have been considered along with the external disturbances.An iterative algorithm is designed such that model predictive noncooperative game could converge to the socalledε-Nash equilibrium in a distributed manner.Sufficient conditions are established to guarantee the convergence of the proposed algorithm.In addition,a set of easy-to-check conditions are provided to ensure the mean-square uniform bounded stability of the underlying MPSs.Finally,a numerical example on a group of spacecrafts is studied to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.
文摘目的基于Markov模型评价肺结节低剂量螺旋CT(LDCT)筛查的卫生经济学。方法利用2021年—2023年北京市某三甲医院的肺结节LDCT筛查数据和部分国外临床研究数据,采用成本效用分析方法,通过增量成本效用比(ICUR)确定优势筛查策略;使用R语言获得转移概率参数,利用TreeAge Pro 2011软件构建Markov模型。假设以我国10万名55岁及以上人群为肺结节筛查对象,模拟其疾病发展情况,并通过敏感性分析评价该模型的稳定性。结果成本效用分析显示,该模型经20次循环后,LDCT筛查策略的总成本为3543088618元,相较于不筛查策略的总成本增加了784130651元,额外获得了7996个质量调整生命年(QALY),每获得一个QALY需多花费98059.77元。采用WHO卫生经济学评价标准,LDCT筛查策略的ICUR大于1倍人均国内生产总值(GDP)但小于3倍人均GDP,为优势策略。敏感性分析显示,各变量在其敏感性分析范围内无论如何变化,都不会对ICUR产生较大影响,表明该模型具有较好的稳定性。结论在55岁及以上人群中开展每年一次肺结节LDCT筛查的ICUR小于3倍人均GDP,具有一定的经济学效用,该筛查策略有利于肺癌的“早发现、早诊断、早治疗”。
文摘This paper proposes a Markov-switching copula model to examine the presence of regime change in the time-varying dependence structure between oil price changes and stock market returns in six GCC countries. The marginal distributions are assumed to follow a long-memory model while the copula parameters are supposed to evolve according to the Markov-switching process. Furthermore, we estimate the Value-at-Risk (VaR) based on the proposed approach. The empirical results provide evidence of three regime changes, representing precrisis, financial crisis and post-crisis, in the dependence structure between energy and GCC stock markets. In particular, in the pre- and post-crisis regimes, there is no dependence, while in the crisis regime, there is significant tail dependence. For OPEC countries, we find lower tail dependence whereas in non-OPEC countries, we see upper tail dependence. VaR experiments show that the Markov-switching time- varying copula model performs better than the time-varying copula model.
文摘目的:基于中国卫生服务体系角度评价血塞通软胶囊对比安慰剂治疗缺血性中风患者的经济性。方法:基于血塞通软胶囊的Ⅲ期对照试验和已发表的文献数据构建markov模型,模拟患者终身的质量调整生命年(quality-adjusted life year,QALY)和增量成本效果比(Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio ICER),并进行单因素敏感性分析和概率敏感性分析检验模型的不确定性。结果:基础分析结果显示,与安慰剂组相比,血塞通软胶囊在获得0.32个QALY且节约医疗成本,具有绝对优势,单因素敏感性分析和概率敏感性分析验证了模型的稳健性。单因素敏感性分析显示对模型结果影响程度最大的4个因素分别是mRS3-5首次住院成本、mRS0-2首次住院成本、mRS0-2的状态效用值及贴现率;概率敏感性分析显示在我国的意愿支付值之下血塞通软胶囊具有经济性的概率为100%。结论:与安慰剂相比,血塞通软胶囊在提升QALY的同时降低了相应的成本,对治疗我国缺血性中风患者具有经济性。
文摘为研究设备可用度对列车控制中心(TCC,Train Control Center)的影响和预测TCC的剩余使用寿命(RUL,Remaining Useful Life),降低TCC的故障发生率,确保车辆安全运行,构建TCC动态故障树模型。通过引入Markov理论,将其转化为Markov模型,设计了TCC可用度评估与RUL预测方法;考虑了TCC的失效率和共因失效,利用D-S(Dempster-Shafer)证据理论对失效数据作数据融合处理,得到TCC设备初始故障区间概率;在此基础上,采用超椭球模型约束设备初始故障区间概率,得到更加精确的底事件故障区间概率;画出Markov状态转移图,用矩阵推导出TCC可用度和RUL的函数关系式,且对可用度的计算还考虑了维修因素。以兰州—乌鲁木齐客运专线某TCC数据作为分析案例,用该方法计算TCC及其各设备的可用度,并预测TCC的RUL。结果表明:与通用方法相比,评估结果相同,但评估信息更丰富。