Artificial intelligence & future warfare: implications for international security

Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) suggest that this emerging technology will have a deterministic and potentially transformative influence on military power, strategic competition, and world politics more broadly. After the initial surge of broad speculation in the literature related to AI this article provides some much needed specificity to the debate. It argues that left unchecked the uncertainties and vulnerabilities created by the rapid proliferation and diffusion of AI could become a major potential source of instability and great power strategic rivalry. The article identifies several AI-related innovations and technological developments that will likely have genuine consequences for military applications from a tactical battlefield perspective to the strategic level.     

线性模型的海基制导系统误差分离方法性能分析

利用传统制导工具系统误差线性回归模型,对Bayes估计、主成分分析以及正则化分析三种改进的分离方法进行了比较,分析了它们在工程应用上的优缺点,给出了实际应用时的限制因素;同时结合海基导弹特有的初始状态误差,设计了整体估计、分段估计以及迭代估计三种估计策略,给出了相应的分离步骤。仿真结果表明,文中给出的三种误差分离方法在不同的评价标准下具有不同的实际应用意义;而在弹道差评价标准以及方差评价标准下,分段估计和迭代估计策略下的误差分离结果要明显好于传统整体估计结果。     

Optimal policies for stochastic clearing systems with time-dependent delay penalties

We study stochastic clearing systems with a discrete-time Markovian input process, and an output mechanism that intermittently and instantaneously clears the system partially or completely. The decision to clear the system depends on both quantities and delays of outstanding inputs. Clearing the system incurs a fixed cost, and outstanding inputs are charged a delay penalty, which is a general increasing function of the quantities and delays of individual inputs. By recording the quantities and delays of outstanding inputs in a sequence, we model the clearing system as a tree-structured Markov decision process over both a finite and infinite horizon. We show that the optimal clearing policies, under realistic conditions, are of the on-off type or the threshold type. Based on the characterization of the optimal policies, we develop efficient algorithms to compute parameters of the optimal policies for such complex clearing systems for the first time. We conduct a numerical analysis on the impact of the nonlinear delay penalty cost function, the comparison of the optimal policy and the classical hybrid policy (ie, quantity and age thresholds), and the impact of the state of the input process. Our experiments demonstrate that (a) the classical linear approximation of the cost function can lead to significant performance differences; (b) the classical hybrid policy may perform poorly (as compared to the optimal policies); and (c) the consideration of the state of the input process makes significant improvement in system performance.     

参照化流形空间融合学习的敏感特征提取与异常检测方法

针对遥测振动信号冲击强、响应周期短、共振频带宽和小样本等特点导致异类模式识别率低的问题,提出基于参照化流形空间融合学习的敏感特征提取与异常检测方法。采用多尺度分析方法将信号正交无遗漏地分解到各尺度带中,提取多尺度特征构造高维特征集;以相同的正常信号样本结合相同类型的异常样本建立专属参照化模型单元,采用线性流形学习获取各参照化模型单元多尺度流形特征差异,增强异常特征的敏感性。融合各参照化模型单元的投影矩阵对原始特征集进行升维再学习,获取低维多尺度敏感流形特征;输入到分类器实现对未知样本状态辨识。实测信号处理结果验证了算法的有效性。     

求解不确定型车辆路径问题的弱鲁棒优化方法

为降低鲁棒优化模型最优解的保守性,以最小化违约车辆数和总惩罚成本为目标,建立针对旅行时间不确定的开放式车辆路径问题的弱鲁棒优化模型。对于不确定数据集的每个取值,该模型的最优解可以使其目标函数值始终不超过某数值,进而改善最优解的保守性。为提高启发式算法发现最优解的概率,提出一种自设计遗传算法对模型进行求解,其主要思想是利用粒子群算法搜索出可使遗传算法预期产生最好解的算法要素,并将其进行组合,从而产生新的遗传算法。采用新产生的遗传算法对模型继续求解,输出最好解。计算结果表明:与以往的鲁棒优化方法相比,弱鲁棒优化方法的最优解的保守性显著降低。     

初始误差和制导工具误差估计的非线性方法

准确估计初始误差和制导工具误差是机动发射飞行器精度鉴定必须解决的重要问题之一,提出了一种基于非线性模型的误差估计新方法。给出了平台初始失准角向定向误差的转换方法,采用不动点迭代法实现真实视加速度的精确计算,将真实发射系的轨道参数表示为初始误差和工具误差的非线性函数,结合外测数据建立了同时估计初始误差、工具误差、外测系统误差、遥外测时间零点偏差的非线性模型,避免了初始误差的线性化近似。给出了Bayes极大后验估计方法,利用非线性模型和先验信息获得误差的最优估计,证明了估计方法的收敛性。仿真结果表明,所提方法提高了初始误差和工具误差的估计精度,并实现了测量数据的自校准。     

Scheduling of parallel processors: A posterior bound on LPT sequencing and a two-step algorithm

This article considers the problem of scheduling parallel processors to minimize the makespan. The article makes two key contributions: (1) It develops a new lower bound on the makespan for an optimal schedule, and (2) it proposes an efficient two-step algorithm to find schedules of any desired accuracy, or percent above optimal. In addition, a posterior bound on LPT (longest processing time) sequencing is developed in the article. It is proved that this bound dominates the previously reported bounds on LPT sequencing.     

基于二代小波的三维虚拟人脸的LOD简化模型研究

针对三维虚拟人脸数据量大的问题,结合曲面多分辨率细分模型,首次提出了具有C2连续光滑的对称性双正交三次B样条小波的快速提升构造方案。算法通过引入 s-lift和w-lift算子,根据B样条的两尺度及小波二阶消失矩关系构造了l和h滤波器。定义了一个与顶点角标无关的提升运算以得到一个平面张量积形式的B样条小波函数,从而将提升构造算法推广到二维,研究了三维人脸网格曲面的张量积小波变换LOD控制算法。对误差计算进行了定义和分析,并对三维人脸的LOD小波控制算法进行了优化。结果表明:二代小波LOD模型压缩率高,人脸曲面失真度小。     

Order-statistic calculation,costs, and service in an (s,Q) inventory system

A retailer or distributor of finished goods, or the manager of a spare-parts inventory system, must generally forecast the major portion of demand. A specific customer-service level p (fraction of replenishment intervals with no stockout) implies two challenges: achieve the service within a small interval plus or minus, and do so with a minimum-cost investment in inventory. The pth fractile of lead-time demand (LTD) is the reorder point (ROP) for this service measure, and is often approximated by that fractile of a normal distribution. With this procedure, it is easy to set safety stocks for an (s, Q) inventory system. However, Bookbinder and Lordahl [2] and others have identified cases where the normal approximation yields excessive costs and/or lower service than desired. This article employs an order-statistic approach. Using available LTD data, the ROP is simply estimated from one or two of the larger values in the sample. This approach is sufficiently automatic and intuitive for routine implementation in industry, yet is distribution free. The order-statistic method requires only a small amount of LTD data, and makes no assumptions on the form of the underlying LTD distribution, nor even its parameters μ and ρ. We compare the order-statistic approach and the normal approximation, first in terms of customer service and then using a model of expected annual cost. Based upon characteristics of the available LTD data, we suggest a procedure to aid a practitioner in choosine between the normal and order-statistic method. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.