Balancing stability and efficiency in team formation as a generalized roommate problem

The assignment of personnel to teams is a fundamental managerial function typically involving several objectives and a variety of idiosyncratic practical constraints. Despite the prevalence of this task in practice, the process is seldom approached as an optimization problem over the reported preferences of all agents. This is due in part to the underlying computational complexity that occurs when intra-team interpersonal interactions are taken into consideration, and also due to game-theoretic considerations, when those taking part in the process are self-interested agents. Variants of this fundamental decision problem arise in a number of settings, including, for example, human resources and project management, military platooning, ride sharing, data clustering, and in assigning students to group projects. In this article, we study an analytical approach to “team formation” focused on the interplay between two of the most common objectives considered in the related literature: economic efficiency (i.e., the maximization of social welfare) and game-theoretic stability (e.g., finding a core solution when one exists). With a weighted objective across these two goals, the problem is modeled as a bi-level binary optimization problem, and transformed into a single-level, exponentially sized binary integer program. We then devise a branch-cut-and-price algorithm and demonstrate its efficacy through an extensive set of simulations, with favorable comparisons to other algorithms from the literature.     

The effect of deployment on first‐ and second‐term re‐enlistment in the US active duty force

Why should deployment affect re‐enlistment? In our model, members enter the military with naïve beliefs about deployment and use actual deployment experience to update their beliefs and revise their expected utility of re‐enlisting. Empirically, re‐enlistment is related to the type and number of deployments, consistent with the learning model. Non‐hostile deployment increases first‐term re‐enlistment but hostile deployment has little effect except for the Army, where the effect is positive. Both types increase second‐term re‐enlistment. Interestingly, first‐term members with dependants tend to respond to deployment like second‐term members. In addition, deployment acts directly to affect re‐enlistment, not indirectly through time to promotion.     

The view from above: how the Royal Air Force provided a strategic vision for operational intelligence during the Malayan Emergency

It has long been held that the Federation of Malaya’s counter-insurgency campaign during the First Malayan Emergency (1948–60) was determined by the use of intelligence. Special Branch — the Federation’s primary intelligence agency — dominates the prevailing paradigm of how the insurgent threat was tackled. Conversely, the role of the Royal Air Force (RAF) within this paradigm is very limited. Most observers simply dismiss the role of photoreconnaissance or airstrikes as being largely inconsequential to the counter-insurgency effort. This is perhaps understandable: the Emergency was after all a ‘policing action’ and the insurgents were largely hidden under Malaya’s jungle canopy and amongst the Chinese community. However, further scrutiny reveals that the RAF made a much more significant contribution to the intelligence element of the counter-insurgency campaign than previously realised. First, the RAF decided to locate their Advanced Headquarters with the Army’s General Headquarters. This led to the creation of the Land/Air Operations Room, through which intelligence, tasking and resources were coordinated. Moreover, the RAF put its intelligence teams into the field to provide a practical link between local units and theatre-level assets. Second, with the support of the Army, the RAF established at the beginning of the Emergency the Joint Air Photographic Intelligence Board (Far East). This coordinated all photographic intelligence requirements throughout the Emergency, which was then delivered via the Joint Air Photographic Centre (Far East). Hence, via Joint Operations Centre and JAPIB (FE), the RAF provided both the practical means for effective joint intelligence operations at theatre level throughout the Emergency.     

任意多边形的非结构网格快速生成算法研究

对于包含大尺度运动边界的CFD数值模拟,网格重构是其中的关键,快速稳定的网格生成技术是其中的重要组成部分。建立了基于有向边的适用于任意多边形的快速三角初始化算法;证明了最长边剖分网格细化算法在一定条件下发散,并结合Delaunay边交换技术使细化算法封闭;建立了基于顶点弹簧理论的网格优化方法,以提高网格生成的质量。结果表明,算法具有较好的鲁棒性和高效性。     

10.6μm 双路 NH2D 斯塔克盒稳频CO2 激光拍频系统研究

在无恒温设备,无特殊防震措施,激光器采用泵浦循环水冷却,稳频环路采用常温热释电探测器的条件下,我们成功地建立了１０．６μｍ双路ＮＨ_２Ｄ斯塔克盒稳频ＣＯ_２激光拍频系统。文中重点对稳频系统的频率稳定性的拍频测试进行实验研究,并对关键技术进行了讨论。用拍频法及阿仑方差评价的频率稳定性是：取样时间为１０_ｓ、１ｓ的频率稳定性优于４×１０~（－１０）;取样时间为１００ｍｓ、１０ｍｓ、１ｍｓ的频率稳定性优于１．７×１０~（－９）。     

共轭梯度反传算法及其在液体火箭发动机系统辨识中的应用

结合非线性优化理论和方法提出了易于实现、收敛速度比较快的多层神经网络共轭梯度反传算法。液体火箭发动机参数辨识技术已得到广泛的应用,由于传统的数学方法必须基于发动机已知模型,使得其参数辨识受到极大的限制。文中基于神经网络共轭梯度反传算法进行液体火箭发动机的系统辨识,结合变推力发动机热试车动态数据,得到了满意的仿真结果。     

Aid versus sanctions for taming oppressors: theory and case study of the Iraqi Kurds

We model an oppressor aiming at victimizing an excluded group in his country, with two main variants. A foreign power affects his behaviour using either conditional aid, subject to the dictator’s participation constraint, or the threat of sanctions, broadly defined, subject to the credibility constraint. The choice between the two is either determined by the latter, or by their relative cost. Aid is preferred when the threat of sanctions is ineffective, and sanctions are too expensive. Sanctions might be imposed, if the threat is ineffective. A case study of the Iraqi Kurds after Iraq was subject to sanctions is presented.     

超精密加工在线检测与误差补偿的理论与方法

超精密加工技术是高新技术、现代机械、电子产业以及国防工业的重要支柱,已成为技术发达国家重要的竞争目标。我系自１９８２年以来开展超精密加工技术的研究已有十多个年头了,取得了重要进展和重大突破。本文就所进行的研究工作,综合介绍了超精密加工中的若干理论与方法,包括形状误差在线检测的误差分离、误差补偿控制、微进给机构的非线性建模、微位移检测等内容,最后介绍了我系所取得的主要成果。     

用配点法求解四边搁支板的弯曲问题

根据弹性薄板微分方程的一般解和边界条件的配点法来求四边搁支板的弯曲问题,并以对称荷载作用下的正方形板为例进行了分析计算。     

在线估计表面粗糙度的神经网络多传感器融合方法

针对机床智能加工对加工状况监测的要求,文中提出一种在线估计表面粗糙的神经网络多传感器融合方法,用该方法可获得表面粗糙度的较好估计。文中论述了该方法的特征提取,维数压缩和归一化等预处理方法,神经网络的构造及训练等内容。仿真表明,该方法是可行和有效的。