An approximate dynamic programing approach to the development of heuristics for the scheduling of impatient jobs in a clearing system

A single server is faced with a collection of jobs of varying duration and urgency. Each job has a random lifetime during which it is available for nonpreemptive service. Should a job's lifetime expire before its service begins then it is lost from the system unserved. The goal is to schedule the jobs for service to maximize the expected number served to completion. Two heuristics have been proposed in the literature. One (labeled π^S) operates a static priority among the job classes and works well in a “no premature job loss” limit, whereas the second (π^M) is a myopic heuristic which works well when lifetimes are short. Both can exhibit poor performance for problems at some distance from the regimes for which they were designed. We develop a robustly good heuristic by an approximative approach to the application of a policy improvement step to the asymptotically optimal heuristic π^S, in which we use a fluid model to obtain an approximation for the value function of π^S. The performance of the proposed heuristic is investigated in an extensive numerical study. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 2010     

某型导弹装备使用保障能力评估

导弹装备是一种高可靠性,单一使用的冷储备系统,其先进的战术技术性能必须在有效协调使用保障的基础上才能充分发挥出来。在对某型导弹装备使用保障工作分析的基础上,提出了基于该导弹装备品质的使用保障能力评估指标体系,运用模糊理论建立了多级模糊层次综合评判模型,给出了导弹装备使用保障能力的量化评估方法,并进行了实例计算,结果可为该装备使用保障工作的进一步优化提供参考和依据。     

碳纳米管增强复合材料Timoshenko梁弯曲和屈曲行为分析

考虑碳纳米管(carbon nanotubes,CNTs)的尺度效应,研究宏观尺度下碳纳米管增强复合材料(carbon nanotubes reinforced composites,CNTRCs)梁的弯曲和屈曲行为。在EMT(Eshelby-Mori-Tanaka)方法的基础上,利用非局部理论提出了可表征CNTs尺度效应的非局部EMT本构模型。根据Timoshenko梁理论,采用哈密顿原理得到CNTRCs梁的静力学微分方程和边界条件。求解简支边界条件下CNTRCs梁的弯曲响应和极限屈曲载荷,并与文献进行对比验证所建模型和求解方法的正确性。分析了CNTs的尺度效应参数和体积分数以及复合材料梁的长细比等因素对简支CNTRCs梁弯曲响应和极限屈曲载荷的影响规律。结果表明,考虑CNTs的尺度效应会削弱结构等效刚度,且CNTs体积分数和尺度效应参数对大长细比CNTRCs梁的弯曲响应和极限屈曲载荷的影响幅度较大。     

一种姿态测量装置在迫击炮上的应用

由于迫击炮后坐力大,自身稳定性差,射向保持需要其他设备辅助,因此,设计了一款利用MEMS传感器的姿态测量装置,在迫击炮实施瞄准、射击的过程中,作为稳定的辅助设备对外提供迫击炮的相对方位角、水平姿态信息等,从而构成了稳定的坐标系统,用来定位原射击位置,并且能够用来修正火炮射向和射距,保证本次射击过程中的精度.对整个装置的...     

AUV分布式自主控制与使命管理方法

提出了一种AUV(Autonomous Underwater Vehicle)自主控制的分布式体系结构与使命管理方法.将自主控制系统分为若干采用慎思/反应混合模式的智能体.每个智能体不仅可以独立地处理事件和进行决策,还可以与其他智能体进行合作来完成复杂的AUV任务.基于该体系结构,研究了AUV使命管理的动态协作机制.利...     

战场电磁环境复杂度评估及其应用

简要阐述了战场复杂电磁环境的特点及其对电子设备的影响,针对雷达对抗电磁环境的自身特点,分析了极化对雷达对抗电磁环境的影响,提出了雷达对抗电磁环境复杂度评估的改进方法,并运用电磁环境复杂度评估结果建立电磁环境影响因子,对训练评估模型进行修正和完善,最后,以雷达分队作战能力评估为例,探讨了战场电磁环境复杂度评估在军事训练评...     

Strength in Numbers: The Labour Government and the Size of the Polaris Force

Previous historical accounts have simplified the Labour government's decision to commission a four-boat strategic nuclear deterrent, or ‘Polaris force’, in early 1965. Utilising previously classified sources, this article shows that a number of key strategic concerns led the decision-making process. Nevertheless, broader economic and diplomatic considerations were also important in determining the size of the Polaris force. A tremendous balance of payments deficit and ongoing debates regarding levels of conventional and nuclear involvement in NATO certainly influenced the government's final decision. Moreover, competing strategic and economic interests resulted in continued debate throughout the decision-making process.     

The multidimensional nature of the Boko Haram conflict

ABSTRACT

The debate concerning the Nigerian terrorist Boko Haram is typically simplified across two false dichotomies. First, it is treated as either a local conflict in northeast Nigeria with its epicentre in Borno State or part of a broader conflict in Northwest Africa (and beyond), encompassing northern Cameroon, southern Chad, Niger, and reaching into Libya and Mali. The second dichotomy concerns whether it is animated by local material conditions on the ground, or is part of a broader anti-West jihad. The Boko Haram insurgency is not that simple. It is, rather, a multidimensional conflict and can change overtime.