Balancing stability and efficiency in team formation as a generalized roommate problem

The assignment of personnel to teams is a fundamental managerial function typically involving several objectives and a variety of idiosyncratic practical constraints. Despite the prevalence of this task in practice, the process is seldom approached as an optimization problem over the reported preferences of all agents. This is due in part to the underlying computational complexity that occurs when intra-team interpersonal interactions are taken into consideration, and also due to game-theoretic considerations, when those taking part in the process are self-interested agents. Variants of this fundamental decision problem arise in a number of settings, including, for example, human resources and project management, military platooning, ride sharing, data clustering, and in assigning students to group projects. In this article, we study an analytical approach to “team formation” focused on the interplay between two of the most common objectives considered in the related literature: economic efficiency (i.e., the maximization of social welfare) and game-theoretic stability (e.g., finding a core solution when one exists). With a weighted objective across these two goals, the problem is modeled as a bi-level binary optimization problem, and transformed into a single-level, exponentially sized binary integer program. We then devise a branch-cut-and-price algorithm and demonstrate its efficacy through an extensive set of simulations, with favorable comparisons to other algorithms from the literature.     

From Nationalism to Factionalism: Faultlines in the Naga Insurgency

Do ceasefires or peace talks create fragmentation in the insurgent groups? Rather than proposing claims that can offer predictions about armed groups behaviour under ceasefires or peace processes, the analysts tend to focus largely on the dynamics between state and non-state actor. The experts pay little attention to overtime changes in social and local political context which might contribute to propelling a rebel group towards fragmentation and factionalism. The present study intends to fill this gap by exploring the shifting role of public opinion and ethnic support for the peace talks to ascertain whether it can increase the likelihood of factionalism in rebel groups or not. This article applies this approach to the case of Naga National Movement (1947–2015) in India, and finds that the proposed variable appears to have increased the frequency of factionalism in the movement.     

Explaining Cohesion in an Insurgent Organization: The Case of the Mizo National Front

Despite the prevalence of violent uprisings against the states, existing literature has produced a generalized explanation of the causes and onset of such uprisings ignoring crucial aspects of (non-state) armed group cohesion, such as their capabilities to manage intra-group tensions and rivalries. In this paper, I examine recent research in the field of civil conflict to understand the importance of investigating underlying constraints which can cause serious impediments to the capabilities of a state during the course of a war. The paper then focuses on the importance of internal strategic resources, such as pre-war and wartime sociopolitical networks in which insurgents mobilize, recruit new cadres and maintain intra-group cooperation, to suggest how it can contain the consequences of counterinsurgency operations and other state strategies on the internal cohesion of an insurgent group. A detailed case study of the Mizo National Front (MNF) in India demonstrates the argument’s plausibility.     

科学管理、精益管理与精确作战工程保障研究

设计是作战行动筹划的重要步骤,精确工程保障需要对工程保障行动进行精密的设计和精确管理与控制。科学管理采用科学实验的方法,通过劳动方法标准化和差别计件工资制度,有效提高了工作效率,其基本原理经过百余年的实际检验,被证明是一个成熟有效的管理方法。借鉴科学管理理论,需要对工程保障行动进行动作研究,进而研究工程保障行动的作业标准,以期提高其保障效率。精益管理是在科学管理在新的历史时期的发展与改进,它使用了准时制、零库存、均衡生产、持续改进等先进的管理理念和六西格玛管理、成组技术等先进技术,为基于信息系统体系作战的工程保障能力生成提供了有益的借鉴,可加深我们对精确工程保障的理解,促进精确工程保障研究的可操作性。     

一种双门限自适应多模多目标跟踪算法

针对机动目标的交互多模跟踪滤波器,提出了基于模型过程噪声自适应调整的双门限的AIMM算法,并对其性能进行了研究,该算法对模型初始参数不敏感,具有稳定性,在目标模型与目标实际运动偏差较大的情况下,具有较好的跟踪性能;针对密集杂波和多目标情况下的目标跟踪,将多模交互滤波的模型自适应调整算法与JPDA算法结合,提出了AIMMJPDA算法的思想与实现。仿真结果显示该方法在机动目标跟踪方面具有模型调整简单、跟踪实时性良好的效果。     

Defense spending and economic growth across the Taiwan straits: a threshold regression model

This paper employs both linear and non‐linear models to investigate the relationship between national defense spending and economic growth for Taiwan and China. Using data from 1953–2000 on defense spending, GDP, import, export and capital, we find that China's defense spending leads that of Taiwan. There exists the phenomenon of an arms race between both countries when official Chinese data are used. On the one hand, feedback relations prevail between economic growth and defense spending growth in Taiwan. On the other hand, China's national defense is found to lead economic growth.     

针对DSA滑动窗口算法实现的指令Cache计时攻击

在现有的针对RSA等公钥密码的指令Cache计时攻击的研究基础上,提出了一套可行的针对DSA的指令Cache计时攻击方法,并对计时信息采集、识别、密钥恢复等环节进行了研究,给出了一种随机密钥恢复算法。搭建了攻击实验平台,利用编写的间谍程序对滑动窗口算法实现的DSA签名进行了实际攻击,验证了指令Cache计时攻击方法是可行、有效的．     

基于QQ群的教育技术本科生情感目标教学环境设计

长期以来,学生的情感发展被教育者所忽视。目前教育技术学学科定位仍处于争论阶段,而其自身较明显的技术外观又往往使专业学生对该学科的理解和认识产生不同程度的偏误。但需要明确的是,学生接受专业教育,既要学习认知层面的专业知识,更要明确以价值观为代表的专业情感目标。可以认为,忽视了专业情感目标的教学是畸形的教学。本文从罗杰斯人本主义理论的视角出发,分析了构建基于QQ群的情感目标教学环境的设计方案,旨在促进教育技术专业的健康发展。     

义务教育均衡发展实践研究——以石河子N学区集团化管理为例

义务教育均衡发展是一个时代课题。本文以石测子第二学区集团化发展为例,从管理模式、运行机制、保障措施等方面论述了集团化、捆绑式发展给学区带来的变化,深入阐述了通过学区集团化实现优质资源共享,提升薄弱学校办学水平,整体提高区域内教育质量的方法及途径。     

投影法在防空群火力分配中的应用

防空群火力分配作为防空指挥自动化系统作战辅助决策的重要组成部分,在现代防空作战中将起着越来越重要的作用,而其关键是及时、准确地判断出来袭目标的威胁程度。以前解决这一问题多是通过线性加权法,引入投影法并通过实例说明了该方法具有简单,易于理解,计算结果合理等优点。