美军航天力量发展走势分析

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Scheduling with parallel processors and linear delay costs

This paper deals with the sequencing problem of minimizing linear delay costs with parallel identical processors. The theoretical properties of this m-machine problem are explored, and the problem of determining an optimum scheduling procedure is examined. Properties of the optimum schedule are given as well as the corresponding reductions in the number of schedules that must be evaluated in the search for an optimum. An experimental comparison of scheduling rules is reported; this indicates that although a class of effective heuristics can be identified, their relative behavior is difficult to characterize.     

差分协同信号的维特比译码接收

采用差分调制的传输方式,差分协同通信虽可有效避免相干协同通信中进行实时信道估计比较困难的难题,具有较高的系统可实现性,但与相干传输相比存在一定的接收性能损失。文中将用于单天线DPSK系统的维特比译码接收算法推广应用于差分协同通信中,构建了基于译码前传协同策略的三节点差分协同通信系统模型,并利用MATLAB软件对该系统采用维特比译码接收的性能进行了仿真分析。结果表明,差分调制信号采用维特比译码接收可获得逼近相干系统的抗误码性能,这对差分协同信号同样有效。     

测试能力评价与测试平台建设

测试能力成熟度模型(TMM)是衡量测试过程成熟度的模型。文中对TMM与CMM进行了比较,给出了TMM评估模型的符号表示和测试能力等级评估算法,并以TMM 2级为例提供了测试平台的建设方案以及改进方案.     

On patrolling a channel

A simple formula is found to be just as accurate as a complicated one for estimating the probability of detection achievable by an ingenious searcher patrolling a channel or barrier. The difference between “detection” and “closure” is emphasized in an extension.     

A heuristic procedure for allocating tasks in fault-tolerant distributed computer systems

One way of achieving the increased levels of system reliability and availability demanded by critical computer-based control systems is through the use of fault-tolerant distributed computer systems. This article addresses the problem of allocating a set of m tasks among a set of n processors in a manner that will satisfy various task assignment, system capacity, and task scheduling constraints while balancing the workload across processors. We discuss problem background, problem formulation, and a known heuristic procedure for the problem. A new solution-improving heuristic procedure is introduced, and computational experience with the heuristics is presented. With only a modest increase in the amount of computational effort, the new procedure is demonstrated to improve dramatically solution quality as well as obtain near-optimal solutions to the test problems.     

Approximate Bayesian intervals for the reliability of series systems from mixed subsystem test data

The determination of exact Bayesian intervals for the reliability of a series system from subsystem test data gives rise to computational difficulties involving severe loss of computing precision as the number of subsystems in the system increases. The end points of Bayesian intervals are percentage points of the posterior distribution and these are shown to be well approximated by Cornish and Fisher expansions when the number of subsystems is small. As the number of subsystems in the system increases even greater accuracy is guaranteed by the asymptotic nature of the expansions. The system posterior distribution function is also shown to be well approximated by an Edgeworth expansion.