Tipping the scales: short-term interventions and counterinsurgency

Particularly in African operations, United Nations (UN) peacekeeping forces have faced significant problems in restoring stability. In at least a few situations, unilateral national military interventions have been launched in the same countries. In the cases of Sierra Leone and Côte d’Ivoire, the British and French interventions respectively played a significant role in re-establishing stability. Lessons from these operations suggest that if effective coordination and liaison channels are established, such hybrid unilateral-UN missions can in fact be more successful than “pure” peace operations.     

凹腔布置方案对气化煤油超声速燃烧特性的影响

针对两种凹腔布置方案,模拟马赫数6.0的来流条件,采用气化RP-3开展了一系列直连式燃烧试验。依据燃烧流场的可见光图像、燃烧室壁面静压分布和推力增益,对比分析了凹腔布置方案对气化煤油超声速燃烧特性的影响。结果表明,凹腔布置方案和当量比对燃烧室内的火焰分布、燃料的释热特性和发动机燃烧性能有显著影响。并联凹腔的火焰与释热主要集中在凹腔附近,燃料比冲对当量比不敏感;单凹腔的火焰与释热分布更加分散,燃料比冲随当量比的增加而提高。     

使用直接模拟法研究选择快中子屏蔽参数

使用蒙特卡罗直接模拟法模拟了300keV氘束流T（d,n）4He中子源发出的中子在球壳屏蔽体介质铁中的输运规律。分析了不同介质厚度的铁对中子的反射性质和吸收性质,这些解释和分析对快中子球壳屏蔽参数的选取具有重要价值。     

引信全电子安全系统失效分析及评估

本文根据全电子安全系统的一般结构模式,分析了其安全性设计的一般特点和可能造成其失效的各种原因,并在此基础上建立了全电子安全系统的失效故障树,给出了失效概率的定量计算结果。     

表格/文本图像歪斜度检测方法

在表格处理和光符识别软件中．歪斜图像校正是一项重要的预处理技术。针对文本和表格图像,本文提出了一种基于线条检测模型的高精度、快速的歪斜图像检测方法。     

复自治微分系统(E)的奇点量计算公式

文献[1]对(E)引入奇点量和 Lie 不变量概念,实现了实自治微分系统焦点量和鞍点量概念的统一,并得到奇点量的结构定理。文献[1]还对三次系统(E_3)找到了全部120个基本 Lie 不变量并具体计算了二次系统(E_2)和缺二次项的三次系统(E_3~((3)))的奇点量。文献[2]还计算了一类特殊三次系统(4)的奇点量。但是,对于计算(E_3)的奇点量的工作,仍有很大困难,甚至前几个奇点量也得不到,况且对(E)找到全部基本Lie 不变量亦非常困难。本文利用规范形理论讨论(E)的奇点量的计算问题,得到了计算公式。该公式对一些特殊系统可直接得到前几个奇点量。作为公式的应用及验证,我们给出(E_3)的前两个奇点量,至于 M(3)=?的问题将另文讨论。     

Coherent systems based on sequential order statistics

The sequential order statistics (SOS) are a good way to model the lifetimes of the components in a system when the failure of a component at time t affects the performance of the working components at this age t. In this article, we study properties of the lifetimes of the coherent systems obtained using SOS. Specifically, we obtain a mixture representation based on the signature of the system. This representation is used to obtain stochastic comparisons. To get these comparisons, we obtain some ordering properties for the SOS, which in this context represent the lifetimes of k‐out‐of‐n systems. In particular, we show that they are not necessarily hazard rate ordered. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2011     

Periodic review inventory management with contingent use of two freight modes with fixed costs

We study a stochastic inventory model of a firm that periodically orders a product from a make‐to‐order manufacturer. Orders can be shipped by a combination of two freight modes that differ in lead‐times and costs, although orders are not allowed to cross. Placing an order as well as each use of each freight mode has a fixed and a quantity proportional cost. The decision of how to allocate units between the two freight modes utilizes information about demand during the completion of manufacturing. We derive the optimal freight mode allocation policy, and show that the optimal policy for placing orders is not an (s,S) policy in general. We provide tight bounds for the optimal policy that can be calculated by solving single period problems. Our analysis enables insights into the structure of the optimal policy specifying the conditions under which it simplifies to an (s,S) policy. We characterize the best (s,S) policy for our model, and through extensive numerical investigation show that its performance is comparable with the optimal policy in most cases. Our numerical study also sheds light on the benefits of the dual freight model over the single freight models. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2011     

基于聚类算法的多无人机系统任务分配

针对现有任务分配方法在任务点较多时不易解算,且计算量大的问题,提出了基于模糊C-均值聚类算法的多无人机系统任务分配方法.首先,利用模糊C-均值聚类算法得到的隶属度矩阵对任务点进行初始分配;其次,针对基于空间划分聚类可能造成各UAV任务不均衡的问题,设计任务的局部优化调整规则;最后,结合单旅行商问题,利用Tabu Sea...     

Quantifying the performance effects of idle time utilization in multiserver systems

In many practical multiserver queueing systems, servers not only serve randomly arriving customers but also work on the secondary jobs with infinite backlog during their idle time. In this paper, we propose a c‐server model with a two‐threshold policy, denoted by (e d), to evaluate the performance of this class of systems. With such a policy, when the number of idle servers has reached d (<c), then e (<d) idle agents will process secondary jobs. These e servers keep working on the secondary jobs until they find waiting customers exist in the system at a secondary job completion instant. Using the matrix analytic method, we obtain the stationary performance measures for evaluating different (e, d) policies. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007.