The building evacuation problem with shared information

In this article, the Building Evacuation Problem with Shared Information (BEPSI) is formulated as a mixed integer linear program, where the objective is to determine the set of routes along which to send evacuees (supply) from multiple locations throughout a building (sources) to the exits (sinks) such that the total time until all evacuees reach the exits is minimized. The formulation explicitly incorporates the constraints of shared information in providing online instructions to evacuees, ensuring that evacuees departing from an intermediate or source location at a mutual point in time receive common instructions. Arc travel time and capacity, as well as supply at the nodes, are permitted to vary with time and capacity is assumed to be recaptured over time. The BEPSI is shown to be NP‐hard. An exact technique based on Benders decomposition is proposed for its solution. Computational results from numerical experiments on a real‐world network representing a four‐story building are given. Results of experiments employing Benders cuts generated in solving a given problem instance as initial cuts in addressing an updated problem instance are also provided. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2008     

远距离反坦克导弹最新发展述评

系统地论述了当前世界范围内各式远距离反坦克导弹的研究、发展、应用、升级改造思路和更新换代情况,以及一些知名公司的研制和发展特色;指出远射程、高精度、大威力,以及良好的适配能力和多用途化将成为其发展的重点。     

Killing with Culture: Anthropology’s Ethical Dilemma with War

ABSTRACT

This article highlights the difficulty of creating a code of ethics in anthropology, particularly one that appropriately addresses the nuanced nature of the military and the anthropologists who conduct research and disseminate information in the context of war. The article consults one of the most important books on this topic, George R. Lucas' Anthropologists in Arms (2009), along with several other relevant texts, and examines the ethical complexities and dilemmas American and European anthropologists faced during their involvement in both World Wars, as well as those faced during Vietnam and the more recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The article also examines the military's recruitment of cultural experts, the methods used to culturally engage combatants, and the criticisms against social scientists who choose to work as so-called military anthropologists. The anthropologists in this article risked academic exile conducting what some consider an adulteration of academic principles. The article contributes to the discourse regarding unconventional warfare and the methods used by the armed forces to better understand the cultural nuances of people, and to highlight the need for the development of a better anthropological code of ethics that accounts for the challenges of war.     

A model of dynamic conflict in ethnocracies

We model an infinitely repeated Tullock contest, over the sharing of some given resource, between two ethnic groups. The resource is allocated by a composite state institution according to relative ethnic control; hence the ethnic groups contest the extent of institutional ethnic bias. The contest yields the per-period relative influence over institutions, which partly spills over into the next period, by affecting relative conflict efficiency. Our model generates non-monotone evolution of both conflict and distribution. Results suggest that external interventions, when effective in reducing current conflict and protecting weaker groups, may end up sowing the seeds of greater future conflict.     

无人机使用助力现代联合登岛(礁)作战

无人机已经广泛使用军事领域各个方面,但就其助力现代联合登岛(礁)作战,还少有研究。本文从无人机助力联合登岛(礁)作战特性分析、具体表现和实现途径三个方面进行了探讨,以期对现代联合登岛(礁)作战有所借鉴和帮助。     

一种无人战斗机系统使用保障费用分析方法

基于无人战斗机系统在使用保障上的特点,通过对有人战斗机使用保障费用模型进行合理改造,使其能适用于无人战斗机的使用保障费用分析。经过改造的模型具有结构清晰、概念明确的特点。适合在飞机总体设计阶段用于全寿命周期的费用估算以及飞机的费效分析和综合优化设计。通过与有人战斗机的使用保障费用进行对比计算表明,无人战斗机系统的使用保障费用具有明显的经济优势。     

大容量储能发电机并联运行励磁控制算法

大容量储能发电机作为脉冲电源，整流后通过逆变器向大功率脉冲负载供电。采用储能发电机直流侧并联方式工作，可以有效提高系统带载能力与可靠性。当并联运行的储能发电机转速不同时，根据转速合理分配电机释放功率可以有效提高系统工作效能，因此需要设计一种具有功率调节功能的励磁控制算法。在电压、电流双闭环控制的基础上，引入功率前馈控制，推导并求解了前馈功率与励磁电流关系以及控制参数，并根据电机初始转速设计了功率分配算法。仿真试验结果表明，功率前馈控制在励磁控制过程中起主导作用，有效分配储能电机释放功率大小，提高了励磁电流响应速度，抑制了负载功率扰动对励磁控制系统的影响。     

基于组成要素的作战体系构建方法研究

针对当前作战体系构建理论研究中的若干问题,提出了基于组成要素的作战体系构建方法,对作战体系进行了模块分解和功能要求分析,得出了基于组成要素构建一般作战体系的框架图,可为同类作战体系构建提供参考。     

基于Erasure Code的分割文件P2P存储结构设计

在充分考虑P2P存储特点的前提下,设计了一种新颖的基于Erasure Code的分割文件P2P存储方案,构建Chord协议上的P2P文件存储结构.通过设计有效的文件存储、访问和更新功能,克服传统Erasure Code冗余文件存储方案的不足,使存储文件具有一定的数据修改能力和结构伸缩能力.理论分析和实验仿真验证了设计方案在P2P存储系统中的可行性和有效性.     

The effects of model parameter deviations on the variance of a linearly filtered time series

We consider a general linear filtering operation on an autoregressive moving average (ARMA) time series. The variance of the filter output, which is an important quantity in many applications, is not known with certainty because it depends on the true ARMA parameters. We derive an expression for the sensitivity (i.e., the partial derivative) of the output variance with respect to deviations in the model parameters. The results provide insight into the robustness of many common statistical methods that are based on linear filtering and also yield approximate confidence intervals for the output variance. We discuss applications to time series forecasting, statistical process control, and automatic feedback control of industrial processes. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2010