认知无线Mesh网络中资源节约的最小信道冲突值组播路由算法

认知无线Mesh网络中满足服务质量约束的多目标优化组播路由问题比单目标优化组播问题更加复杂,为了快速求解认知无线Mesh网络中满足服务质量约束的、以最小化资源消耗与最小化信道冲突值为目标的多目标优化组播路由问题,提出一种基于粒子群优化算法的问题求解框架,包括问题描述、粒子编码与粒子初始化、适应度函数、粒子飞行、粒子变异、粒子消环。粒子由表示节点之间连接关系的带权邻接矩阵表示,重新定义了用于粒子飞行的3种运算规则以及粒子飞行运算和粒子变异运算。仿真结果表明提出的算法能达到预定目标,资源消耗较低且能获得较低的信道冲突值。     

Capacity investment decisions under risk aversion

This article studies the optimal capacity investment problem for a risk‐averse decision maker. The capacity can be either purchased or salvaged, whereas both involve a fixed cost and a proportional cost/revenue. We incorporate risk preference and use a consumption model to capture the decision maker's risk sensitivity in a multiperiod capacity investment model. We show that, in each period, capacity and consumption decisions can be separately determined. In addition, we characterize the structure of the optimal capacity strategy. When the parameters are stationary, we present certain conditions under which the optimal capacity strategy could be easily characterized by a static two‐sided (s, S) policy, whereby, the capacity is determined only at the beginning of period one, and held constant during the entire planning horizon. It is purchased up to B when the initial capacity is below b, salvaged down to Σ when it is above σ, and remains constant otherwise. Numerical tests are presented to investigate the impact of demand volatility on the optimal capacity strategy. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 218–235, 2016     

Newsvendor bounds and heuristics for serial supply chains with regular and expedited shipping

We study an infinite‐horizon, N‐stage, serial production/inventory system with two transportation modes between stages: regular shipping and expedited shipping. The optimal inventory policy for this system is a top–down echelon base‐stock policy, which can be computed through minimizing 2N nested convex functions recursively (Lawson and Porteus, Oper Res 48 (2000), 878–893). In this article, we first present some structural properties and comparative statics for the parameters of the optimal inventory policies, we then derive simple, newsvendor‐type lower and upper bounds for the optimal control parameters. These results are used to develop near optimal heuristic solutions for the echelon base‐stock policies. Numerical studies show that the heuristic performs well. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2010     

Epidemics,national security,and US immigration policy

What are relationships between epidemics, national security, and US immigration policy? This question is important because it sheds light on transnational or nontraditional security areas, American immigration policy, and a pressing issue for US leaders who have recently faced epidemics such as the West Africa Ebola outbreak that began in 2013. This article answers it and lays ground in the area by reviewing epidemics in world history, using International Relations and Security Studies works to specify dangers of contagions for states, and identifying three general immigration measures that American leaders have utilized from the seventeenth century to the present day to protect against contagions, which are (1) policies restricting entrance of foreigners thought to carry specified diseases, (2) the isolation or quarantining of immigrants with contagious disease, and (3) delegating the President with authority to stop immigration in the event of an epidemic abroad. This study has implications for research and contemporary US immigration policy.     

使用图像优化方法估计水体调制传递函数

针对水体属性的变化使图像复原困难的问题,提出了一种从退化的水下图像中估计自然水体调制传递函数的方法。该方法首先建立了自然水体的调制传递函数与其固有光学特性参数之间的关系,然后采用图像复原技术对图像进行复原,最后使用粒子群优化算法来优化调制传递函数的相关参数。仿真实验表明:该方法能有效对水下图像进行复原,且不需测量水体的光学参数就能估计出自然水体的调制传递函数。该方法用于水下激光成像系统的图像复原可取得明显效果。     

基于多群体改进萤火虫算法的装配序列规划

为了解决机械产品装配序列优化问题,提出了一种基于多群体改进萤火虫优化算法的装配序列规划方法。建立了装配序列规划的数学模型,针对萤火虫算法收敛效率低的不足,借鉴混合蛙跳算法族群划分思想对萤火虫算法进行了改进,引用局部搜索与全局信息交换机制提升了算法性能;根据装配序列规划问题离散型的特点,定义了新的离散编码方式和粒子更新策略。通过实例仿真结果表明,改进后的萤火虫优化算法简单有效、稳定性好、求解精度高,能够稳定快速地给出装配序列最优方案。     

The limits of robotic solutions to human challenges in the land domain

In the face of rapid technological change and the creation of ambitious military modernisation programmes, this paper argues that land forces, in managing the relationship between force levels and the adoption of military robotics, must recognise that there are inherent limits to techno-centric force reduction efforts and realise the inefficacy of substituting skilled soldiers with robots. It begins with an overview of how the proper integration of robotics into a military’s force structure can improve capability, save lives and potentially reduce costs, but suggests that common accounts of robot utility are exaggerated and endanger the risk assessment processes governing the adoption of said technologies and relevant personnel settings. The paper explores the limits of robotic solutions to military problems, discussing their technical limitations, redundancy and related issues that, when combined with a technico-moral skills degradation problem also detailed within, point to the need to reshape force structures to suit the adoption of robotics while preserving existing levels of human staffing.     

A survey of performance issues in defence innovation

This article reviews innovation processes in defence. It analyses the way and the context under which these processes are carried out. The article covers the features of defence goods with impact on innovation, the development of a new good, the institutional arrangements that support these processes and the effect of innovation on industrial market. The analysis helps to identify the causes of facts observed in practice, such as poor performance in terms of product quality, cost or delivery time, as well as to assess potential remedies. Some policy implications, which can be derived from this analysis, are finally outlined.     

满足线性二次型调节器性能指标的群系统编队跟踪问题优化控制方法

针对群系统编队跟踪问题,提出一种满足线性二次型调节器性能指标的优化控制方法。建立编队跟踪问题的数学描述和设计编队跟踪控制协议。给出群系统实现编队跟踪的充要条件,借助李雅普诺夫第二方法分析系统的稳定性。得到了控制协议能够最小化线性二次型调节器性能指标的拓扑条件,设计了编〖BHDWG8,WK10YQ,DK1*2,WK1*2D〗〖XCWL.TIF;%129%129〗听语音 聊科研与作者互动 队跟踪算法。仿真实验验证了控制方法的有效性。     

基于粒子群优化的观测站部署算法

针对红外观测站部署问题,在研究观测站位置对定位精度影响的基础上,提出了基于粒子群优化的观测站部署算法。首先对ECEF坐标系下的CRLB矩阵进行推导;然后将观测站优化部署问题抽象为非线性规划模型,并将红外传感器联合定位的CRLB作为目标函数;最后采用粒子群优化算法求解该模型,避免了传统的非线性规划算法需要求解目标函数梯度的难题。结果表明,本文的部署算法具有一定的理论依据和工程意义;可以为实际红外观测站的静态部署和动态部署提供参考。