A comparison of usage data among types of aircraft

It has long been an accepted proposition that base level usage df technical repair items for aircraft is related to program elements. The program element most often cited in this connection is flying hours. Evidence of this relationship on a line item basis, however, has been sparse. This study suggests that although the supposed relation is intuitively plausible, for most line items it cannot be effectively utilized in projecting base level requirements. The basis of this conclusion is an analysis of demand characteristics for technical repair items for a variety of naval aircraft.     

On some stocxastic tactical antisubmarine games

Mathematical models of tactical problems in Hntisubmarine Warfare (ASW) are developed. Specifically, a game of pursuit between a hunter-killer force. player 1, and a possible submarine, player 2 is considered. The game consists of a sequence of moves and terminates when player 2 is tcaught or evades player 1. When the players move they observe the actual tactical configuration of the forces (state) and each player choosa-s a tactical plan from a finite collection. This joint choice of tactical plans determines an immediate payoff and a transition probability distribution over the states. Hence an expected payoff function is defined, Formally this game is a Terminating Stochastic Game (TSG). Shapley demonstrated the existence of a value and optimal strategies (solution), An iterative technique to approximate the solution to within desired accuracy is proposed. Each iteration of the technique is obtained by solving a set of linear programs. To introduce more realism into the game several variations of the TSG are also considered. One variation is a finite TSG and linear programming techniques are employed to find the solution.     

On queueing systems with variable service capacities

In some queueing systems the total service capacity utilized at any given time is a variable under the control of a decision maker. Management doctrines are examined which prescribe the actual service capacity as a function of the queue length and the recent history of the system. Steady state probabilities, expected queue lengths and frequencies of change in capacity are evaluated for a wide class of possible control schemes. Optimization procedures are outlined.     

热漏对热机功率效率特性的影响

本文研究热漏对热机最优性能的影响,导出存在热阻和热漏损失的定常态流不可逆热机的功率、效率关系。所得结果不同于仅存在热阻损失时的内可逆热机的功率效率特性,且与实际热机特性相一致。     

差分GPS/惯导组合导航系统

本文简述了提高GPS定位精度和系统性能的两条主要技术途径(差分GPS、GPS/INS组合)的特点和问题,提出了差分GPS/惯导组合系统方案,研究了组合系统的卡尔曼滤波器设计并作了计算机模拟仿真。仿真结果表明,差分GPS/惯导组合导航系统可以达到1～2米的实时定位精度。     

一种逆合成孔径雷达成象运动补偿方法

本文证明了逆合成孔径雷达成象与大阵列微波成象在信号处理方面的等效性,提出利用自适应波束形成技术来实现逆合成孔径雷达成象的运动补偿,给出了计算机模拟一维成象图,并对结果进行了分析。     

筒形桅杆有限元振动计算模型的研究及空间杆系结构奇点的消除方法

本文建立了筒形桅杆的有限元计算模型并对其进行了计算、讨论,计算结果精确。本文还对空间杆系结构有限元振动计算模型中的无刚度“奇点”进行了研究,提出了一个可用于消除空间杆系结构有限元振动计算模型中的无刚度“奇点”的方法。     

Novell网络环境下分布式文件系统的设计与实现

在局部网络环境下实现分布式文件系统和远程过程调用是实现高层分布式软件的基础。本文在分析Netware层次结构的基础上,给出了一个在网络层上的分布式文件系统和远程过程调用的设计与实现,详细讨论了该系统的功能、用户界面和实现中的技术问题,包括可靠性和并发控制等必须解决的问题。本文的工作是为在Novell网上实现分布式数据库而设计的。     

Book reviews

Exporting Democracy: Fulfilling America's Destiny. By Joshua Muravchik, American Enterprise Institute (1991) ISSN 0–8447–3734–8. $12.95.

Generals in the Palacio. By Roderick Ai Camp. Oxford University Press, (1992), ISBN 0–19–507300–2, £45.

L'Armement en France. Genèse, Ampleur et Coût d'une Industrie By François Chesnais and Claude Serfati, Editions Nathan, Collection Economie/Sciences Sociales, Paris (1992), ISBN 2–09–190086–9.

The Têt Offensive. Intelligence Failure in War. By James Wirtz, Cornell University Press, New York (1991), ISBN 0–8014–2486–0. $38.50.

Restructuring of arms producton in Western Europe. Edited by Michael Brzoska and Peter Lock. Oxford University Press, Oxford (1992), ISBN 0–1982–9147–7. £25.00.

What is Proper Soldiering? A study of new perspectives for the future uses of the Armed Forces of the 1990s. By Michael Harbottle. The Centre for International Peacebuilding, Chipping Norton (1992), £3.50.

The Strategic Defence Initiative By Edward Reiss, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1992), ISBN 0–521–41097–5. £30.00.