基于GSPN的舰载服务器系统可靠性建模及分析

提出一种基于广义随机Petri网(Generalized Stochastic Petri Net,GSPN)的舰载服务器系统可靠性分析方法。深入分析舰载服务器系统故障模式的基础上,建立冗余服务器子系统的GSPN模型和共享数据盘子系统的GSPN模型,进而综合得到舰载服务器系统的全局GSPN模型,有效模拟了舰载服务器系统的动态行为。仿真实验验证了所提方法的有效性,为舰载服务器系统的分析与设计提供理论参考。     

基于Tornado码的复制算法

面向Internet的分布存储系统具有数据种类多、数据量大、分布广泛等特点,为了提高分布存储系统的数据访问效率,提出了一种基于Tornado码的复制算法。与传统的复制算法相比,基于Tornado码的复制算法能够提供更高的可用性、持久性和安全性,并且具有更低的存储开销和带宽开销。     

多级可修备件库存的生灭过程建模与优化

针对VARI-METRIC模型在低可用度下结果不准确的问题,建立基于生灭过程的任意等级、任意层级可修件库存优化模型。通过对各级站点、各类备件需求率与到达率的预测,对每个部件建立其生灭过程模型,并提出基于生灭过程的装备可用度计算方法。以整个保障系统的装备可用度为约束指标,以备件总购置费最低为目标,利用边际算法得到最优备件配置方案,并建立仿真模型对所得优化方案进行评估与调整。结合算例,以仿真结果作为检验标准,选取权威的VMETRIC软件与该解析模型在优化性能、计算精度及适用性上进行对比和说明。结果表明,无论是解析模型还是VMETRIC软件,均存在一定的适用范围,而采用解析与仿真相结合的方法无疑具有更强的适应性。     

Optimal (τ, T) opportunistic maintenance of a k‐out‐of‐n:G system with imperfect PM and partial failure

The opportunistic maintenance of a k‐out‐of‐n:G system with imperfect preventive maintenance (PM) is studied in this paper, where partial failure is allowed. In many applications, the optimal maintenance actions for one component often depend on the states of the other components and system reliability requirements. Two new (τ, T) opportunistic maintenance models with the consideration of reliability requirements are proposed. In these two models, only minimal repairs are performed on failed components before time τ and the corrective maintenance (CM) of all failed components are combined with PM of all functioning but deteriorated components after τ; if the system survives to time T without perfect maintenance, it will be subject to PM at time T. Considering maintenance time, asymptotic system cost rate and availability are derived. The results obtained generalize and unify some previous research in this area. Application to aircraft engine maintenance is presented. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons;, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 47: 223–239, 2000     

System availability in a gamma alternating renewal process

We measure the effectiveness of a repairable system by the proportion of time the system is on, where on-time and off-times are assumed independent and both gamma-distributed. This measure is helpful for system planning and control in the short term, before the steady-state is reached, and its mean value is intermediary between instantaneous and steady-state availabilities. We also present other significant results concerning the Gamma Alternating Renewal Process. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 46: 822–844, 1999     

武器系统采购费与维修费权衡的依据分析

根据武器系统寿命周期费用的理论和方法,建立了系统的费用模型,依据数学分析和优化理论,在已知可用武器系统目标数的前提下,建立了费用优化条件,确定了采购费与维修费的比例限值,用以确定武器系统采购费和维修费的最优比例,从而对系统方案确定的权衡分析提供量化依据.     

基于Markov链的分布式仿真系统最佳检查点间隔研究

基于HLA的分布式仿真系统作为一类特殊的分布式系统,其容错一般基于回卷恢复实现,在回卷恢复中检查点间隔的不同会对系统性能产生很大的影响。分析了分布式仿真容错与一般分布式系统容错的异同,根据不同仿真进程对仿真结果的重要程度对其进行了分类,定义并利用Markov链分析了采用回卷恢复时分布式仿真系统的可用度,得到了系统最大可用度对应的检查点间隔的求解等式,通过一组试验数据验证了该最佳检查点间隔求解等式的正确性。     

面向任务的导弹测试性需求分析与指标确定

针对当前缺乏科学合理的理论和方法确定导弹系统级测试性指标的现状,提出一种面向任务需求的测试性指标确定方法.将导弹任务剖面划分为贮存、出库、部署和发射四个阶段,并提出各个阶段相应的测试需求;分别建立基于贮存可用度、战斗准备任务成功率、部署战备完好率和发射任务成功率为性能要求的测试性需求子模型,给出各个性能指标与测试性参数...     

Maximizing project cash availability

Consider a project during the life cycle of which there are cash payouts and in‐flows. To better meet his financial commitments, the project owner would like to meet all deadlines without running out of cash. We show that the cash availability objective is similar to the total weighted flowtime used to measure work‐in‐progress performance in the scheduling and inventory control literatures. In this article we provide several specialized solution methods for the problem of minimizing total weighted flowtime in an arbitrary acyclic project network, subject to activity release times and due dates, where the activity weights may be positive or negative and represent cash in‐ and out‐flows. We describe the structure of an optimal solution and provide several efficient algorithms and their complexity based on mincost and maxflow formulations. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2006     

GENDER AWARENESS IN RESEARCH AND POLICY MAKING

Abstract

There is an assumption that we can enhance peacebuilding by improving the tools that we use for assessments, planning and evaluation. However, the focus on tools creates the impression that peacebuilding challenges are technical. Improving tools is not meaningless, but our preoccupation with tools has a negative effect when it becomes a front for avoiding dealing with the deeper inherent contradictions in peacebuilding. There are limits to our knowledge and our ability to engineer specific outcomes in complex systems. There are unrealistically high expectations of coherence, unity of purpose and cooperation among peacebuilding actors. Peacebuilding agents are interconnected, but that does not imply that they have the same objectives, mandates, principles and values. Interconnected problems call for interconnected responses, not for one coherent response. Coherence should not be about negotiating a common position, and then promoting it regardless of changing dynamics. Coherence should be about continuously managing competing interests and interdependencies. The interaction between dissention, competition for resources, and the tension between different approaches and policy choices is not only normal but necessary to ensure the optimal functioning of the system.