A multilevel passenger screening problem for aviation security

Passenger prescreening is a critical component of aviation security systems. This paper introduces the Multilevel Allocation Problem (MAP), which models the screening of passengers and baggage in a multilevel aviation security system. A passenger is screened by one of several classes, each of which corresponds to a set of procedures using security screening devices, where passengers are differentiated by their perceived risk levels. Each class is defined in terms of its fixed cost (the overhead costs), its marginal cost (the additional cost to screen a passenger), and its security level. The objective of MAP is to assign each passenger to a class such that the total security is maximized subject to passenger assignments and budget constraints. This paper shows that MAP is NP‐hard and introduces a Greedy heuristic that obtains approximate solutions to MAP that use no more than two classes. Examples are constructed using data extracted from the Official Airline Guide. Analysis of the examples suggests that fewer security classes for passenger screening may be more effective and that using passenger risk information can lead to more effective security screening strategies. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2006     

动态教学法在《政治学原理》课程教学中的运用

政治学原理课程在授课过程中存在着教材内容的确定性和稳定性,而无论从国际国内形势还是从政治学研究而言,政治学所关注的范围和内容又都处于动态的不断发展变化的。笔者以为,只有在授课中具体运用动态教学法,通过联系学生自身、联系社会现实、联系国家大事、联系国际政治等实际,才能使政治学原理课程在马克思主义基本原则的指导下,更富有时代特征和生活气息,使学生真正学有所获。     

基于遗传模拟退火算法的空袭兵力分配及优化

对遗传模拟退火算法中的交叉、变异操作进行了改进,并实施了最优保留策略,形成了改进遗传模拟退火算法.以突击效果最大化和兵力损失最小化为目标函数,以空袭兵力总量的限制、空袭兵器挂载类型的限制等为约束条件,建立了空袭兵力分配及优化模型.在考虑兵力分配模型特点的基础上,利用改进遗传模拟退火算法求解.通过与多目标数学规划和标准遗传算法优化进行的比较表明,该方法能够有效地解决带约束的多目标优化问题.     

聚氨酯阻尼材料的结构设计及其动态力学性能的研究

据聚合物阻尼性能定量化理论,设计合成了软段结构、分子量不同以及含支链的聚氨酯.动态力学性能测试表明,含聚环氧丙烷二醇(PPG,Mn=2 000)、聚己二酸二乙二醇(PDEA,Mn=2 000)、聚己二酸乙二醇(PEAG,Mn=2 000)软段的试样的温域宽和内耗峰高.当软段分子量增加时,材料的损耗因子增加.组份相同时,含支链比不含支链的聚氨酯试样的内耗峰高,阻尼值大.     

RCS特性辅助的CMIMO雷达功率资源分配方法

针对集中式多输入多输出(collocated multiple-input multiple-output, CMIMO)雷达在实际探测过程中,未有效结合目标雷达散射截面(radar cross section, RCS)高动态变化特性导致雷达跟踪精度不高甚至失跟的问题,提出一种基于目标RCS高动态特性的CMIMO雷达功率资源自适应分配方法。考虑到目标RCS特征的角度敏感性,利用目标运动状态的可预测性动态获取实际观测角度,从而完成跟踪帧的极化方式优选;在此基础上构建包含功率与RCS的多目标跟踪误差后验克拉美罗下界,将其作为目标函数进行优化,利用内点惩罚法求解该凸优化问题即可实现RCS高动态情况下的功率优化分配。实验结果表明:该方法可结合目标不同方向RCS动态分集特性实现功率的有效分配,相比于传统RCS模型分配方案,有效解决了分配方案与实际跟踪场景之间的失配问题,从而提升了CMIMO雷达的多目标跟踪性能。     

Threats and civil–military relations: explaining Singapore’s “trickle down” military innovation

This article explains why Singapore, despite its small size and semi-authoritarian regime, retains one of the best military forces in the Indo-Pacific. It unpacks Singapore’s ability to continuously innovate since the 1960s – technologically, organizationally, and conceptually – and even recently joined the Revolution in Military Affairs bandwagon. Drawing from the broader military innovation studies literature, this article argues evolutionary peacetime military innovation is more likely to occur in a state with a unified civil–military relation and whose military faces a high-level diverse set of threats. This argument explains how the civil–military fusion under the People’s Action Party-led government since Singapore’s founding moment has been providing coherent and consistent strategic guidance, political support, and financial capital, allowing the Singapore Armed Forces to continuously innovate in response to high levels and diversity of threats.     

Towards a Humanitarian Military Ethics: Moral Autonomy,Integrity and Obligations in the British and German Armed Forces

Humanitarian operations may pose challenges to which armed forces prepared for warfighting seem rather ill-equipped. It is the aim of this article to examine in what way military ethics should be adapted to humanitarian tasks. Two ideal types of military ethics are defined here: warfighting and humanitarian. The warfighting ethic is supposed to maximise the utility of the military in war and combat and to that end utilises the virtues of loyalty and honour. In contrast, humanitarian obligations require to a larger extent the development of personal integrity and an ability to follow one’s own conscience. The adaptation of military ethics is demonstrated in the case studies of the UK armed forces and the German Bundeswehr. Whereas the moral code of the UK armed forces remains anchored in the principles of the warfighting ethic, the case of the Bundeswehr presents a military ethic closely approximating the humanitarian ideal type.     

阈下听觉技术研究及其应用

从网络空间侦察能力、指挥控制能力、精确攻击能力、防御能力和评估能力等五个方面,对网络空间支援力量的核心支援能力进行了系统论述,提出建设军队网络支援力量、应对网络空间安全威胁的新思考和新观点。研究认为,当前我军在网络空间的安全意识、核心技术、均衡发展等方面面临严峻困难。为实现网络强国的奋斗目标,需要加强国家网络安全的顶层设计,增强网络技术自主创新能力,强化军民融合式建设和系统常态的攻防训练等。     

美军军官职业军事教育政策探析

美军在军事人才培养的体系构筑、目标设定、课目设置等方面有着众多独到之处。《军官职业军事教育政策》是美军规范军官职业军事教育的指导性文件,研究掌握其核心内容的发展演变,从中提取美军职业教育改革的先进理念和成熟做法,可为我军军事职业教育建设提供经验借鉴。     

某型运载火箭1/5动力学缩比模型设计

缩比模型试验是获取大型运载火箭动特性的一种有效途径,其中一项重要内容是动力学缩比模型设计。本文以某型运载火箭为原型对象,首先根据其结构组成分别推导各部件的相似关系;然后,利用横向刚度和质量相似系数保持一致性,联立形成了运载火箭横向动特性相似关系;同时,考虑实际加工制造条件,分析了横向刚度和质量相似系数的约束;最后,根据上述相似关系和相似系数约束设计了1/5缩比模型,并对该缩比模型的动特性相似进行了有限元数值计算验证。验证结果表明,设计所得1/5缩比模型在动特性方面与原型具有较高的相似性,相关方法能够有效应用于运载火箭的动力学缩比模型设计。