一种基于周期分区的时间调度算法

针对多功能相控阵雷达任务实时调度问题,提出了一种基于采样周期分区的时间资源调度算法(记为PD)。该算法以各类任务采样周期的最大公约数为分区标准,将各采样周期均分为多个等长区间,再将各类任务平均分配到不同分区中调度执行,可解决调度过程中任务因采样周期不同产生冲突的难题。仿真结果表明,该算法可提高系统任务调度能力,可广泛应用于相控阵雷达任务调度及其他实时任务调度系统。     

基于逆向分层的工作流时间-费用优化方法

针对效用网格下基于优先级因子的工作流时间-费用优化问题,基于工作流的同步完成特征对任务进行分层并提出三种实时调度算法:基于逆向分层的sufferage(BLSuff)、基于逆向分层的min-min(BLMin)及基于逆向分层的min-max(BLMax)。算法设计基于优先级因子的衡量标准对时间与费用同时进行优化,并为任务设置期望完成时间以达到充分利用费用优化空间进行费用优化的目标。实验结果表明这三种算法在各种优先级因子下都能对工作流的执行时间与执行费用进行较好的优化。     

基于资源约束的装备保障任务动态调度研究

高技术战争条件下的装备保障具有显著的动态性 ,该特点要求装备保障指挥控制系统对装备保障任务进行动态调度。在资源冲突的情况下 ,如何进行任务调度 ,才能减少冲突、提高任务的分配和执行效率 ,是装备保障指挥控制系统需要解决的关键问题之一。本文在对装备保障任务的动态调度问题进行描述和定义的基础上 ,提出了一种基于资源约束的装备保障任务动态调度算法。     

基于关键路径和任务复制的多核调度算法

针对目前大多数多核处理器任务分配优化算法没有考虑关键路径上节点对任务完成时间的重要影响,导致任务完成总时间延迟的问题,提出了基于关键路径和任务复制(CPTD)的单任务调度算法。CPTD算法通过复制任务图中fork节点的方式将任务图转化为与之相对应的产品加工树;再在生成的产品加工树中找到关键路径,并采取使关键路径上节点的紧前节点尽早调度的方式,使关键路径上节点尽早开始执行,进而使产品加工树中节点完成时间得以提前,达到缩短任务执行总时间的目的。理论分析表明,CPTD算法能够实现应用程序在多核上充分并行处理,并能缩短任务完成时间。     

实时磁盘调度算法研究

总结分析了现阶段流行的实时磁盘调度算法,针对磁盘的存储特性,在对任务请求的磁盘访问时间精确预估的基础上,提出了一种新的调度算法-DSJIT(diskjustintime).该算法通过对请求文件在磁盘上分布的预分析得出处理请求所需时间的一个精确预估值,然后根据此预估值再对任务队列进行调度调整,它在保证应用程序对磁盘工作实时要求的同时,尽可能地提高磁盘的吞吐量.最后通过模拟试验,验证了算法的有效性.     

基于改进二进制蝙蝠算法的装备资源保障规划

针对联合作战环境下的装备资源精确保障协同规划问题,考虑以所有保障任务完成时间最短为目标,以保障任务的执行时序和资源需求、保障编组占用冲突,以及资源平台能力更新机制等复杂条件为约束,构建数学模型,提出了基于动态列表调度(Dynamic List Scheduling,DLS)和自适应进化变异二进制蝙蝠算法(Adaptive Mutation Binary Bat Algorithm,AMBBA)的混合装备资源协同保障规划方法.通过动态列表调度选择当前执行保障的任务,在二进制蝙蝠算法寻优中引入自适应学习因子以平衡全局搜索和局部搜索能力,通过在当前可用资源集中搜索最优解为选定任务分配资源,以复杂地域联合作战为例仿真并验证规划效果,结果显示,所提方法可对大规模装备资源协同分配保障问题进行精确高效求解.     

基于最大保障时间的战时装备维修任务调度模型

战时维修机构承担的维修任务比较繁重,合理、科学地安排维修任务可以有效地提高作战部队的战斗力.对此,分析了战时维修任务调度的特点,建立了基于最大保障时间的维修任务静态、动态调度模型,并提出了相应的模型求解方法.利用本方法在满足作战单元最大保障时间前提下,可使得装备维修效益最大,并可以实现实时动态维修任务调度,有效地解决了一种战时维修任务调度问题.     

区域目标搜索中基于改进RRT的UAV实时航迹规划

在线自主航迹规划是无人机(Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,UAV)执行区域目标搜索任务的有效保证.针对UAV区域搜索中航迹规划的实时性要求,提出了一种固定搜索模式和动态搜索模式相结合的UAV自主航迹规划框架.在快速扩展随机树(RRT)方法的基础上,通过改进随机扩展树的节点选择和引入启发式信息,提出了基于改进RRT的UAV实时搜索航迹规划算法,该算法能够有效降低在线航迹规划的时间代价和扩展节点数.仿真实验结果验证了本文方法的有效性.     

面向计算流体力学的图形处理器资源管理

针对求解计算流体力学过程中图形处理器资源利用率低的问题,提出面向计算流体力学的图形处理器资源优化管理方案。基于计算流体力学的算法特性和同时运行任务的执行特点,设计合理的调度方案。通过动态改变不同任务的启动规模和启动时间,在减少资源竞争的同时提高图形处理器资源的有效使用。实验结果表明:本文提出的资源管理方案相比基线方法在不同任务规模下的平均加速比达到 1.64,对图形处理器的硬件资源使用也有了显著的提升。     

自适应权值的嵌套式轮循调度算法

服务质量是目前网络应用研究的一个热点.采取何种队列调度算法则是确保服务质量的关键因素之一.针对NDRR算法不能很好地满足实时业务队列突发情况下的延迟性需求,提出了自适应权值的嵌套式轮循调度算法.当实时业务队列处于突发情况时,能够实现动态增加其权重.理论分析表明该算法有较好的公平性,并能降低实时业务队列的延迟上界,且算法的复杂度为O(1).仿真结果表明,该算法明显改善了突发状态下实时业务队列的延迟性能.     

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.