基于LSSVM与WNN的燃气轮机状态趋势预测

为了对燃气轮机未来状态趋势进行预测,提出基于最小二乘支持向量机(LSSVM)与小波神经网络(WNN)组合的燃气轮机状态趋势预测方法,把最小二乘支持向量机的预测结果分为两部分,将实际参数数据与前一部分的预测结果计算残差,然后利用小波神经网络对残差进行预测,再将预测的残差与最小二乘支持向量机的预测结果的后一部分进行合成,将合成的结果作为最小二乘支持向量机-小波预测模型的预测结果。结合某型燃气轮机进行试验验证,验证结果表明,组合的最小二乘支持向量机与小波神经网络预测模型预测效果更好,预测结果相对误差为0.12%。     

KPLS-SVM在缺失飞参数据估计中的应用

飞行参数的缺失给飞行事故调查工作带来了很大困难.将核的偏最小二乘法与支持向量机耦合,建立基于状态匹配的飞行参数估计模型可以较好地解决缺失飞参数据的估计问题.首先将初始输入映射到高维特征空间,进而利用偏最小二乘法在特征空间中提取对缺失飞参数据影响较强的得分向量, 最后将提取的得分向量作为输入建立支持向量机模型.既克服了输入变量间的相关性问题, 又降低了支持向量机的输入维数.仿真也说明了使用该方法估计缺失飞行参数的可行性和有效性.     

航空发动机的可预测模型建模与应用

提出了一种基于混沌理论和支持向量的预测方法.通过重构相空间的饱和嵌入维数,确定支持向量机的最佳输入变量;通过计算混沌序列的最大Lyapunov指数,确定支持向量机预测模型的最大有效预测步数;利用支持向量机强大非线性映射能力、网络结构的自动最优化特性,实现时间序列的非线性预测.最后,应用于某型发动机压气机的试车时间序列数据建模与分析,结果证明该方法具有较高的预测精度.     

粗糙集理论的支持向量机建模研究及应用

结合粗糙集的属性约简和支持向量机的分类机理,提出了一种混合算法.将粗糙集理论中的属性约简引入到支持向量机中来,把粗糙集作为支持向量机的预处理器,先降低原问题的维数,以支持向量机方法建立预测模型.提高了SVM的推广能力,减少存储空间,加快了支持向量机的训练速度,取得了满意的预测结果.     

预测偏差的LS-SVM预测控制

提出了一种基于预测偏差的最小二乘支持向量机预测控制模型.首先介绍了最小二乘支持向量机预测模型,研究了基于预测偏差的控制算法,并给出了基于预测偏差的最小二乘支持向量机预测控制结构.通过利用最小二乘支持向量机辨识被控系统模型,同时预测系统的未来输出,然后用预测偏差控制算法进行滚动优化和反馈校正.仿真实例中,针对同一系统与基于预测偏差的RBF网络预测控制进行对比分析,表明该模型对系统的预测结果有更好的控制作用,并具有一定的抗干扰能力,有效地提高了预测精度.     

航空发动机混沌支持向量预测模型应用

提出了一种基于混沌理论的通用支持向量预测方法.该方法通过重构相空间的饱和嵌入维数确定支持向量机的最佳输入变量的选取;通过计算混沌序列的最大Lyapunov指数确定支持向量机预测模型的最大有效预测步数;利用支持向量机强大非线性映射能力、网络结构的自动最优化特性,实现时间序列的非线性预测.最后,应用于压气机的试车数据序列建...     

支持向量机的可靠度时序预测分析与应用

提出了一种利用支持向量机进行可靠度时序预测的方法.通过重构相空间的饱和嵌入维数,确定支持向量机的最佳输入变量;利用支持向量机强大非线性映射能力、网络结构的自动最优化特性,实现时间序列的非线性预测.最后,应用于某型发动机涡轮增压器可靠度预测,结果证明该方法具有较高的预测精度和较强的推广能力,对于一般意义上的可靠度监测具有重要的价值.     

SVM异常数据识别的比例风险预测模型

剩余寿命预测在设备维修管理中扮演着重要的角色,准确的剩余寿命预测对制定维修策略起着至关重要的作用,从而可以有效避免设备故障的发生.提出一种基于支持向量机(SVM)异常数据识别的比例风险模型(PHM)用于剩余寿命的预测,该模式利用支持向量机和比例风险模型分别实现异常状态数据的识别和剩余寿命的预测.案例研究表明,SVM -PHM模型较PHM模型具有更好的预测精度.     

间续型备件消耗预测方法的研究

间续型需求是一种随机需求，其不确定性使需求数据中存在着大量的零值。文章针对此问题采用支持向量机算法，利用其结构风险最小化方法的近似实现的优点和能较好地处理非线性回归问题的优势，建立一种有关间续型备件消耗的预测模型。经实验和仿真测试表明，将支持向量机算法应用到备件消耗预测中是有效的，可行的。     

基于改进极值理论的装备维修器材间断性消耗预测方法

针对装备维修器材消耗呈现间断性的特点,提出了基于改进极值理论(Extreme Value Theory,EVT)的维修器材消耗预测方法。首先,依据维修器材前期的消耗特征建模估计极值指数,计算间断区间上维修器材的消耗量,实现最大限度地利用有限数据预测维修器材消耗量的目的;然后,通过实例将改进EVT方法、支持向量机、自回归移动平均(Auto Regression Moving Average,ARMA)、灰色神经网络4种预测方法的预测结果进行比较,结果表明:改进EVT方法具有更好的预测结果。     

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).     

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.     

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.     

基于GTST-DMLD-ESD的装备RMS建模仿真

装备的RMS是装备的重要设计参数,是影响战备完好和保障能力的关键因素.引入GTST-DMLD作为主要建模工具,建立起装备系统的RMS描述模型,以ESD为补充和扩展,对维修过程进行建模.并以GTST-DMLD-ESD模型作为装备RMS仿真的核心,对装备RMS仿真模型的总体框架进行了研究,并对各模块进行了较为详细的探讨.     

Cyber sheiks and grassroots jihadis: the war in Syria and the devolution of the Bosnian Salafi communities

ABSTRACT

What was the scope of the Bosnian jihadi participation in the war in Syria? Did the Bosnian volunteers tend to join one particular faction? Why did the Bosnian youngsters decide to join the holy war in the Levant? Was this an organized and hierarchical process or was this a grassroots movement? Last, were all the Salafis in Bosnia supportive of this dynamic or did this process cause internal frictions? These are some of the questions that this research will try to answer.     

The UK,interrogation and Iraq, 2003–2008

The UK’s interrogation operations during the conflict in Iraq (2003–2008) are often portrayed by the media as involving significant amounts of mistreatment. This article demonstrates that these practices are not necessarily representative of the UK’s interrogation operations across this conflict. In doing so it contributes to the limited literature on the practice of interrogation and on the UK’s combat operations in Iraq. The UK’s interrogation capability, and therefore its intelligence-gathering capability, is shown to have rested primarily with the military’s Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT). The JFIT suffered from limitations to the number, training and experience of its interrogators and interpreters. It is argued that maintaining a permanent, higher level of preparedness for interrogation by the British armed forces is desirable.     

Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa

ABSTRACT

While the study of organised violence is considered essential to understanding the history of the West, and accordingly imbued with various layers of meaning and remembrance, war is widely regarded as inimical to the modern nation in Africa and stable development more broadly. Using examples drawn from primarily from East Africa, this paper considers the ways in which warfare in the deeper (‘precolonial’) past has been framed and envisioned in recent decades, in particular by governments whose own roots lie in revolutionary armed struggle and who began life as guerrilla movements. While in some cases particular elements of the deeper past were indeed mobilised in pursuit of contemporary political goals, in many other scenarios histories of precolonial violence were beheld as problematic and unworthy of remembrance. This paper highlights the paradox and ambiguity which has attended the memory of key aspects of Africa’s deeper past.