Tipping the scales: short-term interventions and counterinsurgency

Particularly in African operations, United Nations (UN) peacekeeping forces have faced significant problems in restoring stability. In at least a few situations, unilateral national military interventions have been launched in the same countries. In the cases of Sierra Leone and Côte d’Ivoire, the British and French interventions respectively played a significant role in re-establishing stability. Lessons from these operations suggest that if effective coordination and liaison channels are established, such hybrid unilateral-UN missions can in fact be more successful than “pure” peace operations.     

航母航空弹药作战保障能力建设

航空弹药是航母武器装备的重要组成部分,是航母打击敌方目标的主要利器,其保障能力建设对于航母编队战斗力的发挥起着至关重要的作用。分析了航母航空弹药作战保障任务的特点,然后从保障理论方法研究、技术保障力量建设、配套建设等方面分析了制约航母航空弹药形成作战保障能力的主要问题。最后,从五个方面提出了加强我国航母航空弹药作战保障能力建设的对策与措施。     

复杂海战场环境下AUV全局路径规划方法

针对无人自主水下航行器(Autonomous Underwater Vehicle,AUV)在复杂海战场环境中路径规划时环境模型复杂、约束条件多的情况,建立了包括战场地形、敌方威胁、障碍物和海流场等在内的比较完善的海战场环境模型.以AUV航行时间、威胁时间最短为优化目标,给出了一种基于振荡型入侵野草优化(Invasiv...     

玻璃瓶动态图像检测运动模拟平台

动态图像检测中,如何在指定位置快速而准确地捕捉到运动物体的图像是最基本的环节。试验验证图像检测装置的成像特性,成为动态图像检测研究的重要内容之一。以变频器控制电动机为核心,通过变频器内部参数编程和外部简单的辅助控制电路,构建了运动平稳、速度可调、具有自动保护功能的模拟平台。该平台适于动态图像检测中普通运动物体的快速模拟,已成功地用于玻璃瓶动态图像装置中,达到了预期目的。     

Scheduling on a single machine with a single breakdown to minimize stochastically the number of tardy jobs

Jobs with known processing times and due dates have to be processed on a machine which is subject to a single breakdown. The moment of breakdown and the repair time are independent random variables. Two cases are distinguished with reference to the processing time preempted by the breakdown (no other preemptions are allowed): (i) resumption without time losses and (ii) restart from the beginning. Under certain compatible conditions, we find the policies which minimize stochastically the number of tardy jobs.     

A proof for the longest-job-first policy in one-machine scheduling

We consider a one-machine scheduling problem with earliness and tardiness penalties. All jobs are assigned a common due date and the objective is to minimize the total penalty due to job earliness and tardiness. We are interested in finding the optimal combination of the common due-date value and the job sequence. Despite the fact that this problem in general is very hard to solve, we prove that there exists at least a common property for all optimal solutions: The first job in an optimal sequence is one of the longest jobs. We also prove that this property holds for a general class of unimodal penalty functions.     

联合作战系统效能评估

采用面向过程的系统分析方法建立了一个对联合作战系统效能比较精确的量化评估模型.模型以某个参考系统为标准,先作层次分析,然后通过模糊对比,把各层次中难以具体量化因素进行了量化,再通过判断矩阵得出各自权重,最后线性加权便可以得到总的系统相对于标准系统的优劣程度,是一种面向过程的系统分析.该方法适用面广,对复杂系统效能评估工作有一定指导意义,具有广阔的应用前景.     

复杂背景下机载雷达目标探测的模型分析

考虑机载雷达目标探测受到复杂环境因素的影响,建立复杂背景条件下机载雷达目标探测的系统模型.利用此模型提出一个机载雷达目标探测的效能指标.在效能仿真的基础上,给出复杂背景条件下诸要素对机载雷达目标探测的定量影响.仿真结果表明了该模型的正确性和有效性.     

Scheduling workers in a constricted area

A generalization of the equi-partitioning problem, termed the 2D-Partition Problem, is formulated. The motivation is an aircraft maintenance scheduling problem with the following characteristics. The complete maintenance overhaul of a single aircraft requires the completion of some 350 tasks. These tasks require a varying number of technicians working at the same time. For large subsets of these 350 tasks, the constraining resource is physical space—tasks must be completed in a physical space of limited size such as the cockpit. Furthermore, there is no precedence relationship among the tasks. For each subset, the problem is to schedule the tasks to minimize makespan. Let m denote the maximum number of technicians that can work at the same time in the physical area under consideration. We present optimization algorithms for m = 2 and 3. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Discount pricing policies for inventories subject to declining demand

Until only recently, the mechanism behind determining item price has been ignored and the discount price taken as a given in quantity-discount inventory decision problems. Inventory subject to declining demand further complicates both pricing and replenishment decisions. This article provides the vendor with the means for optimally determining both the discount price and replenishment order frequency for all buyers in the system in an environment of declining demand. In the multiple-buyer case, we provide an efficient algorithm for classifying buyers into homogeneous subgroups to further enhance joint cost savings among all system participants.