Another manifestation of cyber conflict: attaining military objectives through cyber avenues of approach

Cyberspace is an avenue of approach through which a military force can attain objectives of value. Through these cyber avenues of approach, military forces can engage, vet, organize, and direct human agents to accomplish specific activities. Although the objectives of these activities could differ from traditional military objectives, they still have military relevance. This particular manifestation of cyber conflict is neither a new domain of war nor something outside of warfare. Rather, it can be viewed as an emerging avenue of approach in the larger context of military operations, auguring benefits in the integration of cyber activities with operations.     

Supply chain coordination with product line design and a revenue sharing scheme

Many manufacturers sell their products through retailers and share the revenue with those retailers. Given this phenomenon, we build a stylized model to investigate the role of revenue sharing schemes in supply chain coordination and product variety decisions. In our model, a monopolistic manufacturer serves two segments of consumers, which are distinguished by their willingness to pay for quality. In the scenario with exogenous revenue sharing ratios, when the potential gain from serving the low segment is substantial (e.g., the low‐segment consumers' willingness to pay is high enough or the low segment takes a large enough proportion of the market), the retailer is better off abandoning the revenue sharing scheme. Moreover, when the potential gain from serving the low (high) segment is substantial enough, the manufacturer finds it profitable to offer a single product. Furthermore, when revenue sharing ratios are endogenous, we divide our analysis into two cases, depending on the methods of cooperation. When revenue sharing ratios are negotiated at the very beginning, the decentralized supply chain causes further distortion. This suggests that the central premise of revenue sharing—the coordination of supply chains—may be undermined if supply chain parties meticulously bargain over it.     

Damage assessment of the target area of the island/reef under the attack of missile warhead

Under the background of vigorously developing facilities of island/reef in the world, the economic value and strategic significance of the island/reef have become increasingly important. Unfortunately, they may easily become the attacking target of missiles in the war time. Therefore, aiming at the damage quantification of the targets in the island/reef under the missile attacking, a macroscopic damage assessment model for the target area is proposed in this paper. The model focuses on the construction of the assessment model framework. Firstly, the analytic hierarchy process and the grey relational analysis are applied to measure the importance of each target in the region through four indicators of the target hazard, striking urgency, damage advantage and mission relevance, respectively. Secondly, based on the damage mechanism of shock wave and fragments to target, the corresponding damage model is established, and the damage grade of each target in the evaluated area is obtained according to the damage criteria and grading standard. Finally, the model obtains the overall damage grade of the target area by employing the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, with synthesizing the importance and the damage grade of each target. Through the verification of an example, it demonstrates the certain feasibility of the model and provides a certain basis and reference for the subsequent research.     

海浪水压场正态性及参数模型

在对不同海域、不同海况和不同水深下测的大量海浪水压场数据分析的基础上,采用Epps-Pulley检验方法对海浪水压场信号的正态性进行了检验,进而利用Box-Jenkins方法对海浪水压场信号服从何种线性模型进行了辨识。结果表明,在100 s时间内,海浪水压场信号服从或近似服从正态分布,并可利用AR模型对其进行描述。     

某高制导精度拦截器稳定控制系统设计方法比较研究

将准滑模控制方法和相平面法用于某高制导精度拦截器稳定控制系统的设计。分别对俯仰(偏航)通道和滚转通道进行了稳定控制系统设计并进行了仿真研究,给出了比较优化的设计方案。     

管道导波无损检测回波信号处理方法研究

简述了导波在管道中传播的频散特性,给出了管道导波无损检测实验信号特征.对管道导波检测的回波信号首先进行Hilbert变换,然后对变换后的信号分别进行加窗函数滤波和小波变换,处理后的缺陷信号明显易于辨别.经过分析比较,结果表明了这两种组合方法用于管道导波无损检测信号处理的效果基本一样,在实际检测应用中,选取其中任一组合方法都是可行的.     

An integrated electric power supply chain and fuel market network framework: Theoretical modeling with empirical analysis for New England

In this article, we develop a novel electric power supply chain network model with fuel supply markets that captures both the economic network transactions in energy supply markets and the physical network transmission constraints in the electric power network. The theoretical derivation and analysis are done using the theory of variational inequalities. We then apply the model to a specific case, the New England electric power supply chain, consisting of six states, five fuel types, 82 power generators, with a total of 573 generating units, and 10 demand market regions. The empirical case study demonstrates that the regional electric power prices simulated by our model match the actual electricity prices in New England very well. We also compute the electric power prices and the spark spread, an important measure of the power plant profitability, under natural gas and oil price variations. The empirical examples illustrate that in New England, the market/grid‐level fuel competition has become the major factor that affects the influence of the oil price on the natural gas price. Finally, we utilize the model to quantitatively investigate how changes in the demand for electricity influence the electric power and the fuel markets from a regional perspective. The theoretical model can be applied to other regions and multiple electricity markets under deregulation to quantify the interactions in electric power/energy supply chains and their effects on flows and prices. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2009     

高超声速圆球绕流流场及其近尾尾迹流场电磁散射特性分析

采用分段线性电流密度递归卷积时域有限差分(PLJERC FDTD)方法计算高超声速导电金属球绕流流场及其近尾尾迹流场电磁散射特性,分析等离子体绕流流场RCS的频率特性、双站散射特性、极化特性及随飞行高度、飞行马赫数、入射角的变化关系.计算表明,前向散射方向是全方位散射中RCS取得最大值的方向;马赫数较大(本文Ma≥14)时,入射波频率增大、马赫数增大及飞行高度降低,绕流流场前向RCS增大.马赫数较小(本文Ma≤10)时,飞行马赫数、高度及入射角变化对绕流流场UHF、L、S波段后向RCS和双站RCS影响很小;在UHF、L波段,绕流流场及本体的后向RCS差距较小.马赫数较大时,大范围过密等离子体尾迹的形成使得电磁波垂直轴线入射时绕流流场增大了目标本体的后向RCS;在L、S波段,绕流流场后向RCS曲线可用一条直线逼近.     

Analysis of the stress wave and rarefaction wave produced by hypervelocity impact of sphere onto thin plate

Shock wave is emitted into the plate and sphere when a sphere hypervelocity impacts onto a thin plate. The fragmentation and phase change of the material caused by the propagation and unloading of shock wave could result in the formation of debris cloud eventually. Propagation models are deduced based on one-dimensional shock wave theory and the geometry of sphere, which uses elliptic equations (corresponding to ellipsoid equations in physical space) to describe the propagation of shock wave and the rarefaction wave. The “Effective thickness” is defined as the critical plate thickness that ensures the rarefaction wave overtake the shock wave at the back of the sphere. The “Effective thickness” is directly related to the form of the debris cloud. The relation of the “Effective thickness” and the “Optimum thickness” is also discussed. The impacts of Al spheres onto Al plates are simulated within SPH to verify the propagation models and associated theories. The results show that the wave fronts predicted by the propagation models are closer to the simulation result at higher impact velocity. The curvatures of the wave fronts decrease with the increase of impact velocities. The predicted “Effective thickness” is consistent with the simulation results. The analysis about the shock wave propagation and unloading in this paper can provide a new sight and inspiration for the quantitative study of hypervelocity impact and space debris protection.     

电力系统电压稳定分析方法及应用

介绍了电力系统电压稳定性的概念及其分类，对电压稳定性的静、动态分析方法进行了介绍和比较，最后综合运用连续潮流法、模态分析法、分岔理论以及时域仿真法对WSCC9节点系统进行了电压稳定性分析，结果表明综合方法能充分利用各种方法的优点，分析的结果是有效可靠的。