An INS/GNSS integrated navigation in GNSS denied environment using recurrent neural network

In view of the failure of GNSS signals, this paper proposes an INS/GNSS integrated navigation method based on the recurrent neural network (RNN). This proposed method utilizes the calculation principle of INS and the memory function of the RNN to estimate the errors of the INS, thereby obtaining a continuous, reliable and high-precision navigation solution. The performance of the proposed method is firstly demonstrated using an INS/GNSS simulation environment. Subsequently, an experimental test on boat is also conducted to validate the performance of the method. The results show a promising application prospect for RNN in the field of positioning for INS/GNSS integrated navigation in the absence of GNSS signal, as it outperforms extreme learning machine (ELM) and EKF by approximately 30% and 60%, respectively.     

面向大规模集群的并行I/O用户层配置优化策略

影响应用I/O性能的关键因素主要有三个层次:包括应用的I/O接口实现、体系结构和文件系统组件的性能以及应用的I/O参数配置。从应用I/O配置优化的视角,分析了大规模集群并行I/O的配置调优空间,在此基础上,给出了一套大规模集群并行I/O性能特征测试分析方法。基于该方法,在某国产超级计算集群上开展了一系列I/O测试分析来刻画系统的I/O性能特征,进而指导并行应用程序的I/O配置优化。基于优化后的配置参数,在两类典型的并行I/O场景中,针对某类生产应用程序,8192进程下的重启动数据写操作时间下降了15%,4096核的程序作业加载时间从10 min缩短到了5 s。     

面向大规模集群并行I/O的用户层配置优化策略研究

近年来,大规模并行场景下的I/O性能越来越受到应用科学家的关注。影响应用I/O性能的关键因素主要有三个层次：包括应用的I/O接口实现、体系结构和文件系统组件的性能以及应用的I/O参数配置。本文从应用I/O配置优化的视角,分析了大规模集群并行I/O的配置调优空间,在此基础上,给出了一套大规模集群并行I/O性能特征测试分析方法,基于该方法,在某国产超级计算集群上开展了一系列I/O测试分析来刻画系统的I/O性能特征,进而指导并行应用程序的I/O配置优化。基于优化后的配置参数,在两类典型的并行I/O场景中,针对某类生产应用程序,8192进程下的重启动数据写操作时间下降了15%,4096核的程序作业加载时间从10分钟缩短到了5s。本文提出的I/O配置调优空间及优化方法,可以推广应用到其它同类系统平台,对于大规模集群上的用户层并行I/O配置调优具有借鉴意义。     

‘Mad Dog?’ Samuel Huntington and the Vietnam War

Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington has frequently been considered a Vietnam War hawk. His observation that ‘forced-draft urbanization’ might help the United States win the war has come to define his engagement in contemporary strategic debates. This essay argues that both Huntington’s academic work and his private policy advice to the U.S. Government in fact urged a political settlement to the conflict. It argues that in spite of this, Huntington refused to break publicly with the U.S. policy because of his wider concern over what he saw as a crisis of authority in the U.S. foreign policy and governing institutions in the era.     

Small footprint,small payoff: The military effectiveness of security force assistance

After 15 years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, many now see ‘small-footprint’ security force assistance (SFA) – training, advising and equipping allied militaries – as an alternative to large US ground-force commitments. Yet, its actual military efficacy has been little studied. This paper seeks to fill this gap. We find important limitations on SFA’s military utility, stemming from agency problems arising from systematic interest misalignment between the US and its typical partners. SFA’s achievable upper bound is modest and attainable only if US policy is intrusive and conditional, which it rarely is. For SFA, small footprints will usually mean small payoffs.     

A nation-in-the-making,in arms: control of force,strategy and the Ukrainian Volunteer Battalions

At the core of waging war and strategy is the creation, control and use of force. This article investigates the volunteer battalions that mobilized in Ukraine during the spring of 2014. It contextualizes the volunteer phenomenon and focuses on the state strategies to establish control over these militias. As ambiguous entities arising from a situation characterized by rapid social change – revolution and war – the volunteer battalions threatened existing hierarchies and questioned state authority. The situation was exacerbated by the war, which deviated from the expectations of Ukrainian combatants and Western military observers alike. The state nevertheless enjoyed a modicum of success in reining in the militias through four strategies of undermining, co-option, incorporation and coercion. While predominantly integrated into a more rigid category of paramilitary forces, the volunteers continue to play a role in both the Ukrainian society and security sector to the unforeseeable future.     

基于自适应遗传算法的配送型多级库存优化研究

研究了由1个战役仓库、多个战术仓库组成的配送型系统的优化问题,建立了战术仓库使用经济订货批量策略和战役仓库采用4种不同订货策略时的模型,并采用自适应遗传算法实现了模型的求解,实例验证了模型及算法的有效性。     

信息综合管理平台中基于内容的图像检索

文中深入分析了信息综合管理平台在宽带信息网络中的地位,提出了新型的信息综合管理平台的体系结构,重点研究了信息综合管理平台中对图像信息进行基于内容的管理和查询的原型系统,提出并研究了该系统中的关键技术和实现途径。利用这个基于内容的图像信息管理平台,可以对图像信息进行统一的管理和检索,对下一步信息综合管理平台原型系统的全面实现具有很高的实用价值。     

采用可达域覆盖的多航天器协同护卫策略

针对高轨高价值目标护卫问题,提出了一种基于可达域覆盖的多航天器协同护卫策略。从相对运动视角对协同护卫任务进行了描述,并将威胁源多脉冲机动可达域问题建模为凸优化问题求解。在滚动优化框架下,根据动态更新的威胁源终端可达域,设计协同护卫平面及护卫点,以此为终端位置约束构建多航天器协同轨迹规划模型,生成相应护卫轨迹。仿真结果表明,所提出的可达域分析方法能够快速计算威胁源终端可达域,协同护卫策略在多个场景下均能有效阻止威胁源,且护卫成功率随护卫航天器机动能力增强而增大。     

Optimality of the greedy shooting strategy in the presence of incomplete damage information

Consider a situation where a single shooter engages, sequentially, a cluster of targets that may vary in terms of vulnerability and value or worth. Following the shooting of a round of fire at a certain target, the latter may either be killed or remain alive. We assume neither partial nor cumulative damage. If the target is killed, there is a possibility that the shooter is not aware of that fact and may keep on engaging that target. If the shooter recognizes a killed target as such, then this target is considered to be evidently killed. If the objective is to maximize the weighted expected number of killed targets, where the weight reflects the value of a target, then it is shown that a certain type of a shooting strategy, called a Greedy Strategy, is optimal under the general assumption that the more a target is engaged, but still not evidently killed, the less is the probability that the next round will be effective. If all weights are equal, then the greedy shooting strategy calls to engage, at each round, the least previously engaged target that is not evidently killed. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 44: 613–622, 1997