On single-machine sequencing with order constraints

A collection of jobs is to be processed by a single machine. Each job has a cost function associated with it which may be either linear or exponential, costs accruing when a job is completed. The machine may be allocated to the jobs according to a precedence relation. The problem is to find a strategy for allocating the machine which minimizes the total cost and which is consistent with the precedence relation. The paper extends and simplifies some previous work done by Sidney.     

A bibliography of search theory and reconnaissance theory literature

This bibliography consists of 75 items on search theory and reconnaissance theory found in periodicals and technical reports. Each entry includes a short summary or a quotation from the pertinent abstract. The items are classified into one or more of the following categories: (1) General Discussion of Problems; (2) Allocation of Effort; (3) Game Theory Formulations; (4) Geometric Search Patterns; (5) Measures of Performance and (6) Miscellaneous.     

潜艇耐压结构可靠性研究进展

本文从基本随机变量及其对可靠性的影响、可靠性计算、可靠性设计与分析、可靠性安全标准等几方面介绍了潜艇耐压结构可靠性研究的结果,并对今后的研究方向提出了看法。     

一个新的组合恒等式及其证明

本文以定理的形式提出一个新的组合恒等式。它是在恒虚警算法研究和性能分析中经常遇到的恒等式。对此,文中给出详细的证明。在证明过程中,我们还提出了有关该定理在实际中可以直接应用的3个引理和2个推论。     

旋转稳定塑料弹体工程设计计算研究

本文以实验结果为依据,首先分析了塑料弹体影响弹丸膛内运动的物理性能,然后结合旋转弹丸的膛内运动特征,经过模拟试验,采用数学拟合法,初步建立旋转稳定弹塑料弹体工程设计计算的数学模型(包括结构尺寸设计计算、强度计算和内弹道计算)。     

Decision costs in the intelligence cycle

John Terraine, The Smoke and the Fire: Myths and Anti‐Myths of War 1861–1945. London: Sidgwick &; Jackson, 1980. Pp. 240; £8.95.

Stephen Roskill, Admiral of the Fleet: Earl Beatty. London: Collins,1980. Pp. 430; £12.95.

Peter and Leni Gillman, ’Collar the Lot’. How Britain Interned and Expelled its Wartime Refugees. London: Quartet Books, 1980. Pp. 314; £8.95.

Frederic A. Bergerson, The Army Gels An Air Force: Tactics of Insurgent Bureaucratic Politics. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. Pp. xiii + 216; £8.50.

Christoph Bertram (ed), Prospects of Soviet Power in the 1980s. London: Macmillan, and IISS, 1980. Pp. 126; £15.

James M. Roherty (ed.), Defense Policy Formulation: Towards Comparative Analysis. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1980. Pp. 315; $14.95.

Franklyn Griffiths and John C. Dolanyi, The Dangers of Nuclear War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979. $15.00.

Kenneth Mackenzie, Turkey under the Generals. London: Institute for the Study of Conflict, Conflict Studies. Number 126, January 1981. Pp. 31.     

‘Winston has gone mad’: Churchill,the British Admiralty,and the Rise of Japanese Naval Power

As Chancellor of the Exchequer during the late 1920s, Winston Churchill was at the center of British strategic decision making about how to respond to the naval challenge posed by Japan's rise as a rival sea power. Churchill downplayed the likelihood of war with Japan. The leadership of the Royal Navy disagreed: they saw Japan as a dangerous threat to the security of the British Empire. Examining this dispute between Churchill and the Admiralty highlights the awkward political, economic, and strategic tradeoffs confronting British leaders between the world wars.