基于不可信证据源与冲突重分配的证据合成方法

针对D-S证据理论在高冲突下失效的问题,在比较修正原始证据源和重新分配冲突两种方法的基础上,提出一种新的合成规则,新方法用可信度修正证据的同时,把全局冲突分为两部分,并依据"全局冲突在全局分配、局部冲突在局部分配"的原则对冲突进行细化分配。通过仿真分析,并与其他方法比较,新的合成方法能更好地融合冲突证据,收敛速度快,具有较强的抗干扰能力。     

一种改进的D-S冲突证据合成方法

产生反直觉结果是D-S证据理论在融合冲突证据时经常出现的问题,为了解决这一问题,提出一种改进的D-S冲突证据合成方法。利用Pignistic概率距离衡量证据间的冲突;同时,引进证据间相似度、支持度、确定度、决策度以及可信度来共同确定证据的权重,合理地分配冲突在各命题的比例;并对存在冲突的证据进行修正处理;最后,利用统一信度函数模型对证据进行合成。通过算例验证并与其他方法进行对比表明,所研究的方法在处理冲突证据时优于其他方法,鲁棒性和收敛性更好。     

冲突证据组合中的模型修正新方法

针对经典DS组合规则在证据高度冲突情况下的失效问题,提出了一种改进的证据组合方法.通过引入证据间的距离函数获得证据之间的相似度和各个证据的支持度,并由此求得各个证据的归一化可信度.提出了一种改进的证据冲突检验方法,利用可信度加权平均证据对各个证据源进行冲突检验和修正,以消除证据之间的冲突.最后利用DS规则获得合成证据.数值算例表明,该算法能有效地融合高度冲突的证据,提高了证据组合结果的可靠性和合理性.     

一种基于重要性权重的证据合成方法及其应用

针对Dempster方法在合成高度冲突证据时结果与直观结论相悖的问题,提出了一种改进的基于重要性权重的证据合成方法,并将其应用到海上目标的识别。首先,根据证据之间的相似性程度判断证据间是否存在冲突,对于有冲突的情形,由基于P距离的权重分配模型得到各证据的重要性权值;然后,对BPA函数进行修正,采用Dempster规则修正后的BPA函数进行合成;最后,利用雷达和舰船的对应关系,将侦察雷达探测到的目标雷达信号载频、脉宽、重频转化为雷达参数的概率分配,并运用改进的证据合成方法进行了目标识别。仿真计算结果证明:该方法能有效处理冲突证据组合,克服了一票否决问题,减小了识别结果的不确定性,并保留了Dempster方法处理非冲突证据组合的良好特性。     

一种简单有效的处理冲突证据的D-S改进方法*

D-S证据理论在决策级信息融合领域有着广泛的应用,但其在合成冲突证据时会出现与直观结论不符的现象。通过深入分析D-S证据理论合成冲突证据时的失效原因,提出了一种简单有效的改进方法。通过主观权重和客观权重的综合得到不同证据的信任度,以此确定冲突证据及对应的折扣度并对其进行折扣度修正,使合成结果快速向正确类型收敛。仿真结果表明,同已有方法相比,本文方法特别适合具有少数冲突证据的情况,其合成结果更加符合直观判断。     

基于改进D-S证据理论的雷达生存效能

为了综合分析雷达的生存效能,通过调整非关键因素和不确定因素的基本可信度对证据理论中证据合成规则进行了改进,并基于改进D-S证据理论提出了雷达生存效能评估模型.改进后的证据合成规则不仅减小了证据的冲突,而且仍然满足证据的基本可信度之和为1的基本要求,保持Dempster合成规则所具有的可交换性.通过雷达生存效能模型应用的一个实际例子计算表明,证据理论是一种科学的效能评估方法,具有可行性和实用性,改进后的证据合成规则能够较好地分析雷达的生存效能.     

一种修正的冲突证据融合方法

对于冲突证据,D-S证据理论无法使用甚至无法得出正确的结果,进而引发了专家学者的研究。针对该问题,提出了一种新的冲突证据融合方法,建立了多传感器综合可信度的计算模型,根据综合可信度得到多传感器的合成结果,采用D-S证据理论对合成结果进行组合,既解决了高冲突问题,又解决了低冲突问题。最后通过仿真验证了该方法的有效性。     

基于证据理论的多源信息目标识别

目标识别系统中多源传感器信息高度冲突时,利用DS规则直接融合得出的结果不合理,针对该问题,提出了期望证据融合算法。多个证据融合时,根据两证据间的矛盾信息大小确定其相互支持度,将证据支持度矩阵模最大特征值对应的特征向量归一化后得到各证据的权重系数,进而求出期望证据,并用DS规则迭代融合。通过数字仿真对多种方法进行了比较分析,表明期望证据法在传感器信息高度冲突时依然可以得到较为理想的融合结果。     

一种改进的证据组合规则在可靠性评估中的应用

对许多长寿产品进行可靠性评估时,客观实验数据往往难以获取。在试验数据短缺的情况下,就要正确处理专家经验和对相似产品的可靠性认识等不确定信息。为了有效合理地利用这些不确定信息,提出了一种基于Dempster-Shafer证据理论(DST)的可靠性评估方法,针对传统证据理论在处理冲突证据时的不足,用加权证据方法对其组合规则进行了修正。算例实验表明了该方法在有"干扰证据"存在的情况下评估结果的有效性和合理性。     

结合贝叶斯近似变换的冲突证据合成方法

为了解决D-S证据理论在处理冲突证据合成问题中存在的不足,改进了证据合成规则,提出了用该规则和贝叶斯近似变换相结合的证据合成方法。首先分析了封闭世界和开放世界假定中识别框架上认知集合间的转换关系,然后根据证据理论和贝叶斯近似变换的基本知识分析冲突产生的影响,最后根据原证据焦元交集和并集的基数关系改进了合成规则,并进行了实例验证。改进的合成规则能更好的保留原来的信息,而且通过与贝叶斯近似变换的结合减少了焦元的数量,结果表明该方法是一种准确有效的冲突证据合成方法。     

An Unlikely Alliance: Portuguese and South African Airpower in Angola, 1968–1974

The war that Portugal was obliged to fight in Africa began in 1961 and immediately stretched the resources of its armed forces. Nowhere was this thinness more apparent than in policing the vast territory of Angola. The east and southeast of Angola were particularly vulnerable, as the area was a vast, sparsely populated region characterised by enormous featureless plains or chanas covered in tall grass and broken by an extensive river system and mountainous forests. The only military solution to policing these immense spaces was aviation and specifically the helicopter that could carry troops into battle, protect them with a gunship and bring them home when the operation was concluded. The immediate problem for the Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa or FAP) in Angola and elsewhere was a scarcity of helicopters. The solution was an alliance with South Africa, which had a strong inventory of Alouette IIIs, to help in policing the east. This move was likewise in the interest of South Africa, as its threat came from Zambia through south-eastern Angola. This article examines the strategic and tactical development of this unusual, cross-cultural alliance and the symbiotic relationship that resulted in destruction of the enemies of both in Angola.     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

国内外结构钢焊条研究的现状与发展

本文主要介绍了国外焊条的现状和发展趋势,包括焊条的高韧性、高效率、低尘低毒和耐吸潮性能,为国内的焊条研究提供了参考依据。     

A Sign of Victory?: ‘Scottish Swords’ and Other Weapons in the Possession of the ‘Auld Innemie’

Many late medieval documents, notably inventories of arms and armour, of Englishmen contain references to ‘Scottish swords’ and other weapons. What did the compilers of these documents mean when they described a weapon as ‘Scottish’? How did such weapons come to be in the possession of these men? This article will attempt to explain this phenomenon drawing on primary documentary sources and surviving material culture from Glasgow Museums’ collections and others, as well as artworks from the period.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

Cyberpower in Strategic Affairs: Neither Unthinkable nor Blessed

Abstract

This article explores the effect of connectivity on strategic affairs. It argues that the effect on war's character is potentially, although not yet shown in practice, considerably large. Its effect upon the distribution of power among states in the international system is small, contrary to the claims of ‘cyberwar’ alarmists. All told, however, its effect upon strategic affairs is complex. On the one hand, it represents a significant advance in the ‘complexification’ of state strategies, understood in the sense of the production of intended effects. On the other hand, strategists today – still predominantly concerned with the conflicts and confrontations of states and organised military power – are generally missing the power which non-traditional strategic actors, better adapted to the network flows of the information age, are beginning to deploy. These new forms of organization and coercion will challenge the status quo.