Elements of ‘armed non-state actors’ power: The case of al-Qaeda in Yemen

Over the past few years there is an apparent re-regionalization of al-Qaeda activity, intensified by the ongoing Middle East turmoil. Its main characteristic is a trend towards the abandonment of focoist strategies and their replacement by more popular-based ones. This article aims at evaluating their capacity to implement such a strategy shift and sustain the required level of violence. As a means of evaluating this capacity, this article proposes the use of a DIME (diplomatic, informational, military, and economic) framework, which will hopefully provide an alternative angle of theorizing and understanding ‘armed non-state actors’ (ANSAs). The model is applied in the case of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which appears to have effectively developed the military and informational dimensions, due partly to its own prowess and partly to the Yemeni state's weaknesses and the shortcomings of counterinsurgency. In contrast, the economic and diplomatic dimensions suffer from the lack of resources and the anti-systemic nature of AQAP.     

建筑防火性能化设计方法的基本框架与特征

总结建筑防火技术措施和防火设计发展趋势,给出“性能化”设计方法的基本框架,论述“处方式”和“性能化”设计方法的基本特征。     

运用科学计量学的人工智能安全技术评估

面对智能化时代的巨大进步,人工智能安全逐渐成为备受关注的议题。以Web of Science数据库收录的核心论文为研究对象,运用科学计量学方法和可视化技术,对包括国家、机构在内的研究力量分布以及热点、前沿和所涉学科在内的主题内容进行分析和总结。针对潜在的人工智能安全议题,构建定性分析框架,对人工智能安全进行定性定量结合的分析,对人工智能安全技术发展进行初步探索与评估。     

OODA-L模式下的智能无人集群作战仿真建模框架

介绍了智能无人集群作战的相关概念,为反映智能无人仿真实体的自主能力和适应能力,提出将学习过程显性化的观察-判断-决策-行动-学习(Observe, Orient, Decide, Act and Learning, OODA-L)模式,并进一步扩展为适用于集群协同的Co-OODA-L模式。在智能无人仿真实体的总体描述上,采用马尔可夫决策过程进行数学抽象处理,提出智能无人Agent的三域分层结构。为体现智能无人集群作战的自主协同、分布式等特点,提出了利用人工神经网络将可变数量的智能无人Agent融合为同构或异构集群进行协同作战建模的体系结构。     

面向服务的海战场指挥信息系统体系结构框架

一体化联合作战和基于信息系统的体系作战对海战场指挥信息系统提出了更高的要求.从面向服务的海战场指挥信息系统构建需求出发,在军事信息服务定义的基础上,利用SOA和P2P设计了海战场指挥信息系统体系结构的物理框架和功能框架,给出了各框架的组成和结构,并与已有框架作了对比分析,结果表明所提的框架更加全面、可靠和灵活,为开展面向服务的指挥信息系统研究打下了坚实的基础.     

ANALYSING QUITS AND SEPARATIONS FROM THE ROYAL NAVY

Manning difficulties and retention of skilled personnel is a timely issue in the British armed forces, and especially in the all‐volunteer Royal Navy. Allied with difficulties of matching personnel numbers and posts, significant skill mismatches can take a long time to eradicate, with obvious financial and operational penalties. In the light of these factors, a holistic understanding of the exit behaviour of naval personnel is vital for naval manpower planners. This paper analyses ratings’ voluntary (quits) and involuntary (separation) exit patterns from the Royal Navy using an independent competing risks hazard regression analysis framework. The results show that both voluntary and involuntary exits are pro cyclical with respect to macroeconomic and labour market conditions for both male and female ratings. Male ratings are more likely to quit or separate due to a lack of promotion to higher ranks as compared with females. Male ratings are also more likely to quit as a result of a hectic operational tempo when compared with their female counterparts. Frequency of sea/shore deployments also seems to exert a significant effect with respect to quits and separation outcomes of both genders. In terms of marital status married males are less likely to quit compared with their unmarried male counterparts, whereas the opposite is the case for female ratings.     

油料装备信息化的网络架构设想

网络化是实现油料装备信息化的关键。在分析后勤信息网络现有问题的基础上,提出为了充分利用现有的资源和技术,实现与现有网络的无缝融合,油料装备信息化应当基于分布式开放网络的架构,由TCP／IP以及HTTP提供基本的网络连接条件和所需地址。为满足油料装备信息处理的特殊要求,应在标准Internet协议基础上定义油料装备通信协议以处理相关信息的发现、描述、传输和控制需求。     

火控系统软件加密方法初探

根据实际工作的需要,提出了对火控软件加密的方法,该方法对载体为ＲＯＭ 的其它应用程序的加密也有一定的价值     

C4ISR体系结构产品设计研究

体系结构产品是C4ISR体系结构框架中定义的体系结构描述形式,因此体系结构产品设计是体系结构设计的关键环节。基于C4ISR体系结构框架,对作战节点连接关系、作战活动模型、系统接口描述等核心体系结构产品进行规范化描述,分析了这些核心体系结构产品的数据相关性,提出了体系结构产品设计的检验方法。     

退化速率跟踪粒子滤波在剩余使用寿命预测中的应用

毋庸置疑,剩余使用寿命预测对于设备的健康管理越来越重要。近年来粒子滤波方法被越来越多地应用到设备寿命预测技术当中,这是因为粒子滤波方法能更好地解决非线性非高斯系统滤波问题,而且能够获得不确定度信息。但该方法的预测性能却过度依赖于预测模型,并且对于模型参数的初始分布也比较敏感,这在一定程度上限制了粒子滤波预测方法的进一步发展。针对基本粒子滤波预测方法的不足,提出了一种基于退化速率跟踪粒子滤波的通用预测框架,以历史观测数据的退化速率统计规律作为指导来跟踪目标数据的退化速率,实现对粒子滤波预测方法的简化,并将该方法用于轴承和锂离子电池的剩余使用寿命预测,验证了方法的有效性。