The practice of strategy: South African defence in stasis

The article concerns the strategy development processes of the South African Department of Defence in South Africa. It intends to identify the probable causes of the observed failure of the South African National Defence Force to develop appropriate departmental policy and military strategy. Military strategy comprises force development, force employment, force deployment and the coordination of these elements in pursuit of national, grand-strategic objectives. (See Dennis M. Drew and Donald M. Snow, Making Twenty-first Century Strategy: An Introduction to Modern National Security Processes and Problems Montgomery, AL: Air University Press, Maxwell Air Force Base, November 2006, 103). Of these four constructs, the article concerns itself only with the first two. The article analyses two complementary approaches to strategy formation: a resource-driven, inside-out model and an interests-driven, outside-in method. The article concludes that the Department is preoccupied with the inside-out method to the lasting detriment of the declared strategic intent of the defence policy.     

Adjacency‐based local top‐down search method for finding maximal efficient faces in multiple objective linear programming

It is well‐known that the efficient set of a multiobjective linear programming (MOLP) problem can be represented as a union of the maximal efficient faces of the feasible region. In this paper, we propose a method for finding all maximal efficient faces for an MOLP. The new method is based on a condition that all efficient vertices (short for the efficient extreme points and rays) for the MOLP have been found and it relies on the adjacency, affine independence and convexity results of efficient sets. The method uses a local top‐down search strategy to determine maximal efficient faces incident to every efficient vertex for finding maximal efficient faces of an MOLP problem. To our knowledge, the proposed method is the first top‐down search method that uses the adjacency property of the efficient set to find all maximal efficient faces. We discuss this and other advantages and disadvantages of the algorithm. We also discuss some computational experience we have had with our computer code for implementing the algorithm. This computational experience involved solving several MOLP problems with the code.     

Determination of burn‐in parameters and residual life for highly reliable products

Today, many products are designed and manufactured to function for a long period of time before they fail. Determining product reliability is a great challenge to manufacturers of highly reliable products with only a relatively short period of time available for internal life testing. In particular, it may be difficult to determine optimal burn‐in parameters and characterize the residual life distribution. A promising alternative is to use data on a quality characteristic (QC) whose degradation over time can be related to product failure. Typically, product failure corresponds to the first passage time of the degradation path beyond a critical value. If degradation paths can be modeled properly, one can predict failure time and determine the life distribution without actually observing failures. In this paper, we first use a Wiener process to describe the continuous degradation path of the quality characteristic of the product. A Wiener process allows nonconstant variance and nonzero correlation among data collected at different time points. We propose a decision rule for classifying a unit as normal or weak, and give an economic model for determining the optimal termination time and other parameters of a burn‐in test. Next, we propose a method for assessing the product's lifetime distribution of the passed units. The proposed methodologies are all based only on the product's initial observed degradation data. Finally, an example of an electronic product, namely contact image scanner (CIS), is used to illustrate the proposed procedure. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2003     

基于优先权的分布式网络设备智能轮询策略研究

针对大型网络其地域分布广,监测对象较多,监测周期过长,实时性较差且管理流量负载较大等问题,提出一种分布式网络设备智能轮询策略。在域内,针对轮询周期调整问题,通过构造体现管理者意志的评判矩阵和求解反映数据特征的DFT(离散傅立叶变换)确定轮询优先级和轮询周期取值范围,提出了基于变化率的轮询周期调整算法;在域间,通过触发和查询实现对特殊事件的采集。最后进行了仿真,表明该策略能够在减轻网络负载的同时,准确刻画网络的状态。     

Optimal control of an M/G/1 queue with impatient priority customers

An optimal operating policy is characterized for the infinite‐horizon average‐cost case of a single server queueing control problem. The server may be turned on at arrival epochs or off at departure epochs. Two classes of customers, each of them arriving according to an independent Poisson processes, are considered. An arriving 1‐customer enters the system if the server is turned on upon his arrival, or if the server is on and idle. In the former case, the 1‐customer is selected for service ahead of those customers waiting in the system; otherwise he leaves the system immediately. 2‐Customers remain in the system until they complete their service requirements. Under a linear cost structure, this paper shows that a stationary optimal policy exists such that either (1) leaves the server on at all times, or (2) turns the server off when the system is empty. In the latter case, we show that the stationary optimal policy is a threshold strategy, this feature being commonplace in most of priority queueing systems and inventory models. However, the optimal policy in our model is determined by two thresholds instead of one. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 48: 201–209, 2001     

火力运用对策空间模型

根据空 -地作战的特点 ,提出了软、硬火力单位的概念 ,根据模型提出了作战指数、生存指数 ,为双方的实力与“保卫目标”的安全度分析提供了数量依据 ;根据微分对策和战术原则提出了规范作战模式等概念 ,为构造火力运用、兵力数量需求等算法搭起一个框架。     

离散变结构系统的组合控制策略研究

对离散变结构控制系统的趋近律方法进行研究,提出了4种组合控制策略,它们可以明显改善系统的动态性能,并给出应用例子加以验证．     

遥感图像自动配准的串行与并行策略研究

面对数据量呈指数增长的全球遥感图像,研究快速、有效、高精度的自动图像配准算法成为遥感领域迫切需要解决的问题。综述了遥感图像自动配准算法的研究现状和关键技术,且从新的角度分类总结了已有算法的特点及适用情况,并给出了综合的解决方案;同时研究并提出了三种新的并行策略,获得了较好的实验结论。由于算法采用粗粒度的数据并行方法,因此可扩展性和可移植性较好,无论在理论上还是在实践上都能为实际的遥感应用提供有益的指导和借鉴。最后提出了有待进一步研究的问题。     

基于测高精度最优值的星载分布式InSAR编队构形设计方法

编队构形设计是分布式干涉SAR系统总体设计的关键问题,它必须紧密结合系统性能评价和编队运动规律进行。针对星载分布式干涉SAR的双站、斜视、空间基线等特点,以主星带辅星群分布式InSAR为例,建立干涉测高精度与基线矢量的关系;以直角坐标过渡,建立基线矢量与卫星间轨道根数差的关系,从而建立了测高精度与卫星轨道根数差的关系;以雷达工作的中间时刻达到测高精度最优值为设计准则,得到双星和多星编队设计方法;仿真分析表明根据上述设计方法得到的优化编队构形,其测高性能要优于干涉车轮和干涉钟摆编队。     

压水型核反应堆功率控制系统的优化设计

在分析了压水型反应堆功率控制系统的前提下,针对其特殊的控制要求,运用基于输出反馈的次最优控制的设计方法和Matlab中的NCD模块,最终实现了系统的优化设计,并对系统进行了某一功率水平下的仿真试验和其它工况下的鲁棒性试验.结果表明,改进后的系统性能有了较大改善.