面向工业物流服务的智能车及循迹算法的研究

将工业物流服务的智能循迹小车作为研究对象,并结合循迹算法原理,采用混合遗传算法,设计了智能循迹小车。经测试验证,小车能准确接收配送任务,按需求将物件运送到指定工位并语音播报提示,在行驶过程中能够自动避障,并在执行任务过程中能够将输运信息上传至上位机进行实时数据处理。最后,搭建了工业物流模拟服务平台,实现了对运送全程的追踪记录,进而提高工业生产自动化的程度,降低制造企业的生产成本,促进企业信息化建设。     

Country survey: military expenditure and defence policy in Norway 1970–2013

This article examines military expenditure and defence policy in Norway from 1970 to 2013. Until 1990 Norwegian military expenditure remained between 2.5 and 3.0 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Despite constant GDP shares, the military expenditure could not sustain a large and properly armed mobilization army. The constant nominal defence budgets of the 1990s accentuated the Norwegian Armed Forces' underlying imbalance between tasks, structure and budget. Around year 2000, large organizational reforms were effectuated, in which costs, the number of man-years, and underlying imbalances between tasks, structure and budget were reduced. Military expenditure increased in nominal terms between 2003 and 2013, while real military expenditure remained practically constant.     

警用装备综合保障效能的熵权-双基点法评估

为实现对警用装备综合保障效能的定量评估,构建了包括战备完好性、保障资源适量性、保障经济性、保障时效性、保障信息化、保障精确性、保障弹性、保障综合性8个评估指标的综合保障效能评估体系,建立了基于熵权-双基点方法的综合效能评估模型,通过编程计算对某警用装备的5种综合保障方案进行了定量评估,根据效能优属度确立了较为优化的综合保障方案。该模型克服了主观赋权的缺陷,可以为警用装备综合保障方案的优选提供科学依据。     

Into the black box? Technology sharing in major arms transfers and beyond

From the recipients’ perspective, arms transfers have, through the use of offsets, technology transfers, and industrial participation, become an opportunity to receive not only advanced weapons, but also technologies not otherwise available. How important are friendly relations for securing a military export order? To what extent do buyers demand advanced military or commercial technology and how are these demands accepted by the supplier? How does this influence smaller producers in relation to major producers? These questions are addressed by studying (a) the Joint Strike Fighter/F-35 by Lockheed Martin, USA, and the JAS-39 Gripen aircraft by Saab, Sweden, (b) the Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft competition in India for 126 combat aircraft, and (c) the Indian offset policy. In the final section, some long-term consequences are discussed.     

本体驱动的多分辨率联邦一致性维护方法

传统的聚合解聚方法仅能解决语法层的数据聚合解聚的参数静态匹配问题,却不能解决联邦一致性的其他两个重要的方面:数据的语义匹配合理性及联邦运行中的动态一致性。为了解决以上两个问题,提出了一种本体驱动的多分辨率联邦一致性维护框架——OCM框架。该框架基于本体创建与融合技术构建联邦本体,通过邦员本体与联邦本体间的映射,解决了联邦数据匹配的合理性问题;基于聚合解聚方法,引入管理与协调联邦实体状态的邦员,通过合理设计联邦的实时对象更新及交互机制,实现了联邦实体状态的实时一致性。实验结果表明:OCM框架能有效保持联邦中多分辨率实体的状态一致,并且由于联邦本体的可重用性,对邦员的增加与退出不敏感,因此联邦的重组合也具有一定的借鉴价值。     

VXI总线消息基器件数据低寄存器定位监视电路设计

结合工程需要设计了消息基器件数据低寄存器定位监视电路,满足了总线和本地CPU对数据低寄存器读写时的时序关系,给出了部分实现电路和状态转移流程图。     

信息知识库中的数据可用性恢复策略

信息知识库在工业生产中能够提高生产效率、降低资源消耗,但数据失效频率高。针对多节点失效重构的纠删码策略较少,且未充分考虑失效数据重构时各参与节点间的链路关系,导致重构效率较低。针对信息知识库数据失效,提出一种新的重构策略。根据节点的数据处理能力,选取数据处理能力最高的新生节点为路由节点;依据路由节点与候选供应节点及剩余空闲节点的链路带宽,确定供应节点及新生节点,从而构建数据重构网络拓扑,提高失效数据重构效率。实验结果证实,与传统纠删码策略性能比较,该方法有较短的重构时间和较高的重构成功率。     

Defence and firm performance in the UK

The UK Ministry of Defence is British industry's largest single customer and a number of firms and industries are highly dependent on defence sales. Various hypotheses have been proposed about the impact of defence procurement on firms and these are investigated using four performance indicators: financial structure, investment, productivity and profitability. With regard to the borrowing ratio, capital investment and the rate of return, there is no statistically significant difference between the mean financial ratios for low and high dependence firms. However, non‐dependents appear to have a higher level and rate of growth of labour productivity than dependents.     

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXTERNAL DEBT,DEFENCE EXPENDITURES AND GNP REVISITED: THE CASE OF TURKEY

This paper contributes to the continuing debate on the economic effects of military expenditure by undertaking a case study of Greece. Within Europe Greece provides a particularly interesting object of study. It has the highest military burden in Europe and NATO, is the only European Union country situated in the unstable environment of the Balkans, faces a military threat from Turkey, and has a very weak economy. After some background analysis of the economy and military expenditure, the paper investigates the determinants of Greek military expenditure as well as whether the high military burden has played an important role in Greece's poor economic performance over the period 1960–1996. It estimates a Keynesian simultaneous equation model with a supply side, which allows the indirect effects of military expenditure to be captured explicitly. It concludes that the major determinants of Greek defence spending are not economic but strategic (the threat of war) and that the direct effect of defence spending on economic growth as well as the indirect effects through savings and trade balance are all significantly negative. On the basis of such strong results, the paper concludes that defence spending is harmful for the Greek economy.     

The case for demilitarising Lesotho

ABSTRACT

The Kingdom of Lesotho spends around five per cent of its annual budget – some 700 million Maloti ($US52.6 million) in 2017 – on the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF). Lesotho’s geographical position means that the LDF has no meaningful role regarding its primary function of defending the country from external aggression and it hardly engages in its secondary functions. In addition, the LDF has a long history of interference with democratic processes and engaging in human rights abuse. The financial resources currently allocated to the LDF could do far more for security, widely defined, if they were allocated to a number of other government expenditure categories.