What you should know about queueing models to set staffing requirements in service systems

One traditional application of queueing models is to help set staffing requirements in service systems, but the way to do so is not entirely straightforward, largely because demand in service systems typically varies greatly by the time of day. This article discusses ways—old and new—to cope with that time‐varying demand. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007     

军事综合电子信息系统需求描述框架及其辅助工具开发研究

需求描述是需求工程的重要组成部分,文中提出了一种军事综合电子信息系统需求描述框架,将军事综合电子信息系统需求分为作战需求、用户需求和系统需求3个层次,并简要介绍这3种需求的内容体系;最后以需求描述框架为指导,介绍了描述工具集的设计与开发思路。     

“What is dear to you?” Survey of beliefs regarding protection of critical infrastructure against terrorism

Up to the present, there is only very little research on how the population perceives terrorism and its threats, even though support from the population is crucial for effective counterterrorism. By eliciting beliefs and subjecting them to content analyses, six factors were found that determine the protection worthiness of a target in the people's view: the potential damage to “people,” “symbolism,” “economy,” “politics,” “nature,” and “image/publicity.” These empirically found factors are in line with factors specified by terrorist target selection models. They differ in the strength of their cognitive representation among participants and, thus, their subjective importance to the people. The first three factors are shared among all participants, whereas the latter ones could only be found in a part of the participant sample. People's judgments of the targets' protection worthiness differ substantially from their judgments of the targets' attractiveness to terrorists, even though the same factors seem to be involved. This study offers an insight into the people's mental model about protection worthiness of targets. Together with classical risk analysis and knowledge about terrorists, these results can form a basis for setting up a holistic scheme for critical infrastructure protection.     

Basic scheduling problems with raw material constraints

One of the achievements of scheduling theory is its contribution to practical applications in industrial settings. In particular, taking finiteness of the available production capacity explicitly into account, has been a major improvement of standard practice. Availability of raw materials, however, which is another important constraint in practice, has been largely disregarded in scheduling theory. This paper considers basic models for scheduling problems in contemporary manufacturing settings where raw material availability is of critical importance. We explore single scheduling machine problems, mostly with unit or all equal processing times, and L_max and C_max objectives. We present polynomial time algorithms, complexity and approximation results, and computational experiments. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2005.     

西部边疆高校思想政治理论教育教学的特殊要求

坚持不懈地用马克思主义、中国特色社会主义理论体系武装全党、教育人民，是我们在新的历史发展机遇期高扬的伟大旗帜，也是全国人民又好又快建设中国特色社会主义的共同思想基础。边疆高校必须把：中国特色社会主义理论体系教育、社会主义核心价值观教育、爱国主义教育、民族团结和发展和谐的社会主义民族观教育、民族自豪感和民族自信心教育、艰苦创业无私奉献等教育作为思想政治理论教育教学主渠道建设的核心和基本内容。     

Requirements planning for modular products

The focus of this paper is on determining the requirements of different component options of a modular end‐product in an uncertain environment. We explicitly model two distinct sources of uncertainty: stochastic end‐product demand and unknown market proportions for the different product options available. Our cost minimizing model focuses on determining the optimal requirements policies for component options that meet a pre‐set service level. We show that simple common‐sense requirements policies are not generally optimal; there is a non‐linear connection between service level and component requirements that is hard to characterize without a detailed analysis. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2006     

Linking a throughput simulation to a systems dynamics simulation to assess the utility of a US Navy foreign humanitarian aid mission

The success of any humanitarian aid mission is generally measured by the timeliness of critical supplies that are delivered to the affected area. However, a more interesting analysis may be to determine the effect of the aid on the overall satisfaction of the local population. The authors' research focused on the delivery of humanitarian aid to a notional region that was decimated by flooding with ships, landing craft and security personnel provided by the US Navy and Marines. While the research effort addressed naval force structure, the focus of the research was: (1) to assess different delivery methods for the aid; and (2) to determine how the aid delivery impacted the overall satisfaction of the local population. To examine both concerns, two simulation models were developed, with one examining the throughput of aid delivered during the operation, and the other the satisfaction of the population based on the humanitarian aid effort.     

基于XML的武器装备作战需求核心数据管理方法

武器装备作战需求核心数据管理是作战需求分析的基础。针对目前作战需求缺乏统一的底层数据管理标准的现状,制定了基于XML的核心数据存储、抽取和一致性检验策略,实现了作战需求核心数据的管理。实践应用表明,该方法能够为需求论证工程化提供有效的底层数据支撑。     

轻型炮兵武器系统机动性需求指标的任务分析

机动性是轻型炮兵武器系统作战需求论证中的一个重要内容,阐述了机动性的概念及影响因素,分析了轻型炮兵武器系统的组成、机动方式,提出了基于任务构建轻型炮兵武器系统机动性需求指标的思路,并依据所归纳的轻型武器系统作战任务和行动流程,构建了自身机动性需求指标、运输性需求指标和与作战任务一致性的机动性需求指标。     

C4ISR需求模型化框架

真正的"C4ISR需求"只存在于人脑里,通过有效的模型表述C4ISR需求是C4ISR需求分析的关键。首先,分析C4ISR需求的内涵,提出C4ISR需求体系的概念,给出C4ISR需求模型化思路。然后,分析C4ISR需求模型要素,在此基础上针对C4ISR需求主要相关问题设计了C4ISR需求模型。最后,提出基于要素构建C4ISR需求模型的流程。澄清了"需要什么C4ISR需求模型"和"如何构建C4ISR需求模型"的问题,为科学的建立C4ISR需求模型提供了方法支持。