Bounded flexibility in days‐on and days‐off scheduling

This article presents a flexible days‐on and days‐off scheduling problem and develops an exact branch and price (B&P) algorithm to find solutions. The main objective is to minimize the size of the total workforce required to cover time‐varying demand over a planning horizon that may extend up to 12 weeks. A new aspect of the problem is the general restriction that the number of consecutive days on and the number of consecutive days off must each fall within a predefined range. Moreover, the total assignment of working days in the planning horizon cannot exceed some maximum value. In the B&P framework, the master problem is stated as a set covering‐type problem whose columns are generated iteratively by solving one of three different subproblems. The first is an implicit model, the second is a resource constrained shortest path problem, and the third is a dynamic program. Computational experiments using both real‐word and randomly generated data show that workforce reductions up to 66% are possible with highly flexible days‐on and days‐off patterns. When evaluating the performance of the three subproblems, it was found that each yielded equivalent solutions but the dynamic program proved to be significantly more efficient. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 60: 678–701, 2013     

改革开放前毛泽东先行探索社会主义的经验教训——纪念毛泽东诞辰120周年

毛泽东早在20世纪50年代,就开始对适合中国国情的社会主义建设道路进行了一系列开创性探索。他基于中国经济文化落后的基本现状,对“什么是社会主义”、“如何建设和发展社会主义”等问题进行了艰苦探索,并提出许多富有创造性的思想。毛泽东探索的过程是极其艰辛的,其中既有成功的经验,也有失败的教训。今天总结这些经验教训,对于我们更好地坚持和发展中国特色社会主义,具有重大的历史意义和现实意义,同时这也是坚持贯彻习近平“两个不能否定”的基本要求。     

Book reviews

The Political Economy of Military Spending in the United States, Alex Mintz (ed), London and New York: Routledge, 1992, pp x, 334; ISBN 0–415–07595–5

Penser La Guerre, Penser L'Economie, Christian Schmidt, (Paris: Odile Jacob, 1991), 350p.

Military Production and Innovation in Spain, Jordi Molas‐Gallart, Chur (CH): Harwood Academic Publishers, 1992, pp. vii, 212; ISBN 3–7186–5280–3     

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Banning Weapons of Mass Destruction, by Frederick N. Mattis. Praeger Security International, 2009. 129 pages, $39.95.     

一类具有阶段结构和潜伏期时滞的SEI模型的全局动力学性态

研究一类具有潜伏期时滞、阶段结构和标准发生率的SEI模型,利用比较定理和单调迭代的方法,分别得到无病平衡点和地方病平衡点全局吸引的充分条件．     

一类具有吸收效应的HIV-1病毒动力学模型的全局稳定性

研究一类具有吸收效应的HIV-1病毒感染动力学模型．通过构造适当的Lyapunov函数证明当基本再生数〈1时,未感染平衡点是全局渐近稳定的;当基本再生数〉1时,给出病毒感染平衡点全局渐近稳定的充分条件．     

采取仿真模拟技术预设战争实现训练与实战接轨

文章研究信息化条件下局部战争战法。利用模拟作战实验室实践检验、论证完善战争设计理论,普及电脑游戏开发战争想象力,借虚拟数学方式预测战争结果。强化“战争设计”对训练的牵引作用,落实训战一致。强调加强军事理论研究的针对性、前瞻性．综合考虑武器装备、战争战例、军事训练水平、人员素质、战役战术等因素,对未来可能发生的战争进行准确预测。     

基于转移费用矩阵的机器人路径规划方法

本文描述了机器人路径规划的一种新方法：基于转移费用矩阵的机器人路径规划方法。通过定义转移费用矩阵的概念及其上的二元运算,将最优路径的生成,转化为矩阵的运算,使得有限步的矩阵运算,即可得到环境中所有点间的最优路径,达到了在预处理阶段构造最优路径集的目的。最后,介绍了该方法在移动机器人任务规划中的应用     

兵团精神与井冈山精神:价值意蕴、逻辑体系与实践路径

兵团精神与井冈山精神都是党在革命、建设的伟大实践中创造的红色基因,都是中国革命精神的重要组成部分,都是中国共产党人的精神谱系。同时,兵团精神实践主体来源于井冈山,兵团精神继承和发扬了井冈山精神,特别是井冈山精神中坚定执着追求理想、艰苦创业的奋斗精神、实事求是的精神等成为兵团精神的强大思想动力。兵团精神是井冈山精神结合边疆实际的继承和发扬。新时代高校大学生继承和发扬兵团精神、井冈山精神需要通过广泛实践来践行;继承和发扬兵团精神、井冈山精神需要融入大学生课堂教育;继承和发扬兵团精神、井冈山精神需要融入大学生社会实践;继承和发扬兵团精神、井冈山精神需要创新教育传播。     

An enterprise portfolio approach for defence capability planning

Capability-based planning (CBP) is considered by many defence organisations to be the best practice for enterprise-level planning, analysis and management. This approach, loosely based around investment portfolio theory, is premised on balancing the cost, benefit and risk of capability options across the defence enterprise. However a number of authors have recently noted limitations of its current applications. The authors propose a more general, insurance-based approach, which can support the evolutionary improvement of the current CBP approach. This approach is implemented as hedging-based planning and aims to better reflect the enterprise nature of defence organisations, capturing both force structure and force generation aspects of military systems.