Value management of diagnostic equipment with cancelation,no‐show,and emergency patients

Magnetic resonance imaging and other multifunctional diagnostic facilities, which are considered as scarce resources of hospitals, typically provide services to patients with different medical needs. This article examines the admission policies during the appointment management of such facilities. We consider two categories of patients: regular patients who are scheduled in advance through an appointment system and emergency patients with randomly generated demands during the workday that must be served as soon as possible. According to the actual medical needs of patients, regular patients are segmented into multiple classes with different cancelation rates, no‐show probabilities, unit value contributions, and average service times. Management makes admission decisions on whether or not to accept a service request from a regular patient during the booking horizon to improve the overall value that could be generated during the workday. The decisions should be made by considering the cancelation and no‐show behavior of booked patients as well as the emergency patients that would have to be served because any overtime service would lead to higher costs. We studied the optimal admission decision using a continuous‐time discrete‐state dynamic programming model. Identifying an optimal policy for this discrete model is analytically intractable and numerically inefficient because the state is multidimensional and infinite. We propose to study a deterministic counterpart of the problem (i.e., the fluid control problem) and to develop a time‐based fluid policy that is shown to be asymptotically optimal for large‐scale problems. Furthermore, we propose to adopt a mixed fluid policy that is developed based on the information obtained from the fluid control problem. Numerical experiments demonstrate that this improved policy works effectively for small‐scale problems. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 287–304, 2016     

Historical and Political Background to the Erosion of the Rule of Law and Human Rights During Sri Lanka’s Civil War and the Way Forward

The Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009) is regarded as a violent reflection of deepening divides along political and ethnic lines. During this civil war the Sri Lankan Government and its security forces have been implicated in unlawful killings carried out in a pervasive manner against civilians, whilst at the same time specifically targeting ethnic Tamils, humanitarian workers and journalists. The human rights of all citizens suffered as a result and ultimately led to the weakening of the rule of law. With the end of the civil war, the Sri Lankan Government has made little progress in providing accountability for wartime abuses. Its absence of and reluctance to ensure justice is seen as a logical culmination of decades of impunity. The importance of acknowledging historical behaviour and taking accountability for past violations will be discussed. In an analysis for paving the way to a new democracy in Sri Lanka, the main outcomes of this article are calls for accountability arising out of the government’s actions during the war; an investigation into the present state of human rights, the rule of law and finally; an examination into the political solution going forward to ensure a process of reconciliation and peaceful co-existence.     

考虑载荷作用次数的多失效模式扭力轴灵敏度分析

机械构件的不同的失效模式之间具有一定的相关性,而且随机载荷作用次数对机械构件的可靠性有一定程度的影响。因此对机械构件进行可靠性灵敏度分析时,需要充分考虑其不同失效模式和载荷作用次数的影响。通过运用顺序统计量理论考虑载荷多次作用以及多种失效模式条件下机械构件可靠性及可靠性灵敏度的变化规律,运用随机摄动理论和四阶矩技术,建立一种考虑载荷作用次数的多失效模式机械构件可靠性灵敏度分析数值方法的应力强度干涉模型。在随机变量前四阶矩已知的情况下,结合灵敏度分析的梯度算法,推导出关于随机变量均值和方差的灵敏度计算公式。以某履带车辆底盘扭力轴为例进行计算,得到其可靠度随载荷作用次数、随机变量均值和方差而改变的可靠性灵敏度变化曲线,为扭力轴的可靠性优化提供一定的理论依据。研究成果可以推广到相关机械可靠性灵敏度设计和结构优化领域,具有非常重要的实用意义。     

一种连续修正速度方向的导引方法

考虑制导炮弹由身管武器发射,其飞行控制能力和导引信息量有限,基于预测落点位置偏差量来修正速度方向并在控制时间内连续分配导引指令的思想,提出了一种新的三维末制导方法。根据非线性弹道方程组的级数解预测弹丸落点位置,得到落点与目标的偏差,并提出了两种通过此偏差解算当前速度方向修正量的方法。取剩余飞行时间为修正时间,通过将速度方向修正量分配到整个剩余导引段建立了加速度修正公式,以减小导引指令饱和的可能性。通过连续地预测落点和分配加速度指令来实时地导引飞行。仿真结果表明：该导引方法简单可行,精度高,对控制能力要求较低,且具备较好的制导效果和毁伤效果,为该体制制导炮弹的应用提供参考依据。     

武器装备体系能力矩阵评估方法

针对武器装备体系能力难以客观、定量评估的问题,引入复杂网络理论,提出了基于矩阵运算的武器装备体系能力评估方法。分析了武器装备体系能力的概念,建立了武器装备体系的复杂层次网络模型,描述了装备网络的组成、运行过程,定义了装备网络的矩阵描述方法和矩阵运算规则,提出了装备网络作战能力描述参数,给出了装备网络能力的矩阵计算方法,进行了影响因素分析,最后通过实例验证了方法可行性、有效性和灵活性。     

适用于认知无线传感器网络的高效频谱分配方法

广泛工作在ISM(Industrial,Scientific and Medical)频段的无线传感器网络面临严重的频谱稀缺问题。在无线通信中,动态频谱分配被认为是提高频谱效能的重要途径。针对典型集中式管理的认知无线传感器网络设计了基于图着色结合负载强度的高效频谱分配算法。首先在协议干扰模型下确保频谱资源在空间上充分利用,随后综合考虑节点负载强度与公平性建立优化模型并按照乘子法加拟牛顿法框架求解最优值。仿真实验表明算法与固定频谱分配方式和传统自适应频谱分配算法相比,在系统吞吐量和节点缓冲区队列长度两个关键性能指标上具有显著优势。     

防空群对多批次小间隔目标射击效能评估

基于排队网络理论的适用性分析以及基本假设与适当简化,将防空群对多批次、小间隔目标射击问题转化、抽象为排队网络对顾客流的服务问题,建立了防空群对多批次、小间隔目标射击效能评估的"分布式协同排队网络"模型。在特定作战实例和假设条件下,应用所建模型,计算得出了典型火力配属方案下防空群对多批次、小间隔目标射击效能的量化结果,实现了防空群对多批次、小间隔目标的射击效能的定量化评估,验证了所建模型的可行性与有效性。     

基于改进空战威胁评估模型的权重计算方法比较

针对多无人机(UAV)任务网协同空战态势威胁评估问题,在现有基本模型基础上增加考虑气象环境对威胁评估要素的影响和无人机的自主可靠性系数两个实际因素,提出一种改进的超视距空战威胁评估模型;同时,应用串联电阻分压法、改进AHP法和熵权法分别计算融合模型中各威胁指标的权重系数;进而,在考虑己方战机对敌方战机综合威胁与优势的基础上,介绍了战机协同空战目标分配的基本方案。最后,应用上述3种权重计算方法进行空战威胁仿真计算,计算结果表明改进空战威胁评估模型可有效改善空战决策性能。     

多光源并行化算法的实现

针对在绘制具有真实感的图形中光照处理模块串行处理速度慢的问题,提出多光源光照算法的并行化,采用负载均衡的并行策略,重新优化计算模型,单独计算环境光、散射光、镜面光及衰减因子后叠加在一起。计算不同的PE(处理单元)个数使用了不同的分配方案来提高处理速度。实验结果表明,将多光源光照算法并行化,可充分利用资源,发挥多核处理器的处理能力,提高了资源利用率。     

潜射鱼雷在引导兵力通报下的远距攻击

在分析引导兵力通报情况下鱼雷远距攻击流程的基础上,建立了引导兵力通报下鱼雷远距攻击中的有关数学模型,并对鱼雷远距攻击命中概率进行了计算分析,对鱼雷在引导兵力通报下远距攻击的作战使用提出了对策建议。