Stability of information‐sharing alliances in a three‐level supply chain

In their recent article, Leng and Parlar (L&P) (2009) analyze information‐sharing alliances in a three‐level supply chain (consisting of a manufacturer, a distributor, and a retailer) that faces a nonstationary end demand. Supply chain members can share demand information, which reduces information distortion and thus decreases their inventory holding and shortage costs. We expand the results from L&P by considering dynamic (farsighted) stability concepts. We use two different allocation rules and show that under some reasonable assumptions there should always be some information sharing in this supply chain. We also identify conditions under which the retailer in a stable outcome shares his demand information with the distributor, with the manufacturer, or with both remaining supply chain members. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2010     

联邦滤波器在INS/GPS/DVS组合导航系统中的新应用

针对某机载导航系统不能满足高精度导航定位需要的问题,采用了动态信息分配系数方法,提出了一种新的基于联邦滤波器的INS/GPS/DVS组合导航方案,通过对各子滤波器的信息分配系数进行优化,增强了组合系统的导航性能.仿真结果表明,该方案充分提取了导航传感器的信息,有效地提高了组合导航系统的精度和故障检测能力.     

信息发现元数据标准草案设计与研究

文中给出了标准元数据标准的整体框架,进行了信息元数据标准草案的设计,确定了发现元数据标准草案中核心元素,并采用UML对元数据元素进行了定义,对核心元素和修饰词的关系进行了描述。以RDF为描述语言实现了信息发现元数据的形式化描述。信息发现元数据的建设,将为数据工程建设提供基础支撑,为信息共享提供了新的途径。     

混沌Lurie系统同步在保密通信中的应用

鉴于Lurie系统在工程中的普遍性,研究了混沌Lurie系统同步在保密通信中的应用.以Lyapunov稳定性理论为基础,通过求解一个Riccati方程,给出同步控制律,并将其应用于通过混沌掩盖实现保密通信的驱动一响应系统.仿真表明,即使传输幅度较大的信息信号,混沌Lurie系统也能对其实现较好的掩盖,驱动一响应系统能够迅速同步,并且同步过程没有超调或振荡.     

基于纠缠交换的量子安全通信协议

基于纠缠交换和Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen纠缠对,提出一种量子安全直接通信协议和一种多方量子秘密共享协议。量子安全直接通信协议利用光子分组传输方法,与现有协议不同的是通信方可以直接将秘密消息编码为四个Bell态之一,从而不需要在保证量子信道的安全之后再对秘密消息编码。在多方量子秘密共享协议中,通信方以一定的概率选择检测模式和编码模式。协议的实现只需要Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen对而不需要制备多粒子纠缠态。与已有的协议相比较,该协议不需要局域幺正操作,协议的效率得到了显著提高。两个协议的安全性均等同于BBM92协议的安全性。     

围绕集约共享搭建炮兵部队基于信息系统的训练平台

破敌防御中机动作战行动,必须坚持贯彻信息先导、火力主战、兵力主控的作战原则,灵活采取打击敌机动＂源头＂、遮蔽敌机动视野、切断防御流动和抢夺机动通道的手段,削弱敌整体防御能力。     

基于极化单光子和量子计算的量子秘密共享

结合量子计算算子提出一种基于极化单光子的量子秘密共享协议.该方案可以将全部量子态用于密钥共享,借助量子置换算子和量子纠缠特性证明了方案能够有效抵抗中间人攻击,利用辅助量子态进行监视,方案能够以高概率检测特洛伊木马攻击.通过对置换算子进行高维推广,证明了方案推广到(n,n)的可行性和实用性.     

基于最大电流方法的数字均流总线设计

多个电源模块并联供电系统,最广泛使用基于最大电流方法的自动均流技术,通过专用的模拟均流总线,传输与模块最大电流成正比的电压信号,各个模块使用该电压信号实现均流.该模拟电压信号很容易受到各种噪声影响,导致均流控制失败.针对该问题,设计了单线数字均流总线,实现最大电流值的数字传输.分析结果表明,设计的单线数字均流总线能够实现模拟均流总线相同的功能,并且具有更强的抗干扰能力.     

Specialization in defence forces

The choice between balanced and specialized defence forces depends on the technology of defence output (e.g. whether a force scope multiplier is present), the existence of scope and scale economies, the platform customization costs and, of course, the level of defence budgets. Minimum force element levels (thresholds), and scale economies facilitate specialization as opposed to scope economies (e.g. platform‐sharing), scale diseconomies and the force scope multiplier (e.g. defence weakest‐link technology). When a balanced force is not optimal, the option value of a non‐optimally maintained force element must also include the opportunity cost arising from suboptimal force elements. Shrinking defence budgets may produce two surprising phenomena. If some force elements are shut down as a result of thresholds, the surviving ones may increase in platform numbers as well as enjoying closer‐to‐most‐desirable platforms. Furthermore, if heritage force elements are shut down within the budget contraction environment, overall defence capability might rise.     

Burden Sharing in CSDP Military Operations

Abstract

Military burden sharing has been a subject of repeated debates in NATO and the UN. Despite more modest goals, the European Union’s (EU) Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) has experienced no fewer difficulties in garnering men, money, and materiel. While this may not come as a surprise, the fact that some EU member states have carried disproportionate shares of the burden of CSDP operations is a puzzle that remains unaccounted for. We address this gap by analyzing determinants of contribution levels to CSDP operations. In employing an innovative multi-method design that combines insights from collection action theory with those from integrated theories of military burden sharing, our results indicate that EU countries tend to contribute in positive disproportion with their capabilities when they have a strong peacekeeping tradition and elections are distant. In contrast, they undercontribute when small trade volumes with the area of operations combine with a weak peacekeeping tradition.