三轴稳定跟踪分析

为解决在运动载体上仅设置方位跟踪轴、高低跟踪轴并实现瞄准线间接稳定自动跟踪中存在的问题,在两轴跟踪中引入一个与高低跟踪轴在空间正交的横倾跟踪轴的实际意义及其实现方法,可供在运动载体上实现近程防空反导高精度跟踪系统论证、工程实践参考。     

侦察卫星支援对海打击作战研究框架分析

分析归纳了当前侦察卫星支援对海打击作战研究的3类研究角度,梳理了研究现状。从体系链路的角度分析了其一般作战过程,提出了面向体系链路的双OODA环作战研究框架。在此基础上系统探讨了侦察卫星间接引导对海打击、精确引导对海打击,以及概略引导对海打击3个主要研究方向的研究方法和技术思路。     

Britain and Hiroshima

Most historical accounts of the atomic bombings of Japan show little interest in Britain's explicit authorization for the attacks. Meanwhile, the few historians who have attempted to explain it rely on a unitary, rational actor model of the British state that is misleading. This article demonstrates that high-ranking British officials became anxious early on about the strategic consequences of a peremptory use of the new weapon. Therefore, especially over the course of 1944 they sought to engage Washington on the linked questions of the bomb's wartime use and its postwar control. However, these officials' initiatives were rebuffed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who paved the way to the bombings based on a fervent desire for Anglo-American integration, and on a dim understanding of the bomb's revolutionary potential.     

The development and evaluation of a cost-based composite scheduling rule

A cost-based composite scheduling rule is developed and evaluated in comparison with three other well-researched scheduling rules—SPT, S/OPN, and SST. This cost rule permits the optimization of more than one performance measure at a time. The priority number that is used for scheduling operations through each machine group is based on four separate performance measures—(1) In-process Inventory, (2) Facilities Utilization, (3) Lateness, and (4) Mean Setup Time. The factorial experimental design involved three factor levels of loads, three factor levels of cost, and three factor levels of mean time. Analysis of variance was performed on each of the five output measures to study the effects of each of the three factors on each individual rule. Rank-order comparisons between rules were also made; and, finally, general conclusions with regard to the effectiveness and flexibility of the Cost Rule were drawn.     

A note on some series representations of the integral of a bivariate normal distribution over an offset circle

Consider the problem of computing an offset circle probability under a normal distribution. One approach is to utilize an infinite series representation in which case it is important to have rapid convergence and a good upper bound on the error introduced by consideration of only a finite number of terms of the series. We relate three seemingly different series representations. In particular we show how two series representations for the bivariate case can be obtained by specializing more general results of Harold Ruben.     

A general treatment of upper unbounded and bounded hitchcock problems

This paper is designed to treat (a) the problem of the determination of the absolute minimum cost, with the associated assignments, when there is no limit, N, on the number of parcels available for shipment in a modified Hitchcock problem. This is accomplished with the use of a transformed cost matrix. C*, to which the so-called transportation paradox does not apply. The general Hitchcock solution using C* gives the cost T*, which is the absolute minimum cost of the original problem, as well as sets of assignments which are readily transformed to give the general assignments of the original problem. The sum of these latter assignments gives the value of N_u, the unbounded N for minimum cost. In addition, this paper is designed to show (b) how the method of reduced matrices may be used, (c) how a particular Hitchcock solution can be used to determine a general solution so that one solution using C* can provide the general answer, (d) how the results may be modified to apply to problems with fixed N, and hence (e) to determine the function of the decreasing T as N approaches N_u, and finally (f) to provide a treatment when the supplies at origin i and/or the demands at destination j, are bounded.     

Evaluation of commonly used rules for detecting “steady state” in computer simulation

A definition of the problem of the initial transient with respect to the steady-state mean value has been formulated. A set of criteria has been set forth by which the efficaacy of any proposed rule may be assessed. Within this framework, five heuristic rules for predicting the approximate end of transiency, four of which have been quoted extensively in the simulation literature, have been evaluated in the M/M/1 situation. All performed poorly and are not suitable for their intended use.