Editorial

Systemic Practice and Action Research -     

基于PSO-ABC的混合算法求解复杂约束优化问题

为了改善粒子群优化（particle swarm optimization, PSO)算法在处理复杂约束优化问题时的求解效果,提出了一种基于粒子群和人工蜂群的混合优化(particle swarm optimization artificial bee colony,PSO-ABC)算法。在采用可行性规则进行约束处理的基础上,将PSO种群分为可行子群和不可行子群,并在ABC算法从粒子种群中选择蜜源时,保留部分较优的可行解信息和约束违反程度较低的不可行解信息,弥补了联赛选择算子在处理最优点位于约束边界附近的问题时存在的不足。同时,使用禁忌表存储局部极值,减小了PSO算法陷入局部最优的危险。针对4个标准测试实例的实验结果表明,该算法能够寻得更优的约束最优化解,且稳健性更强。     

Global awareness, future city design and decision making

Our world has been changing at an exponential rate.As a result of this rapid growth,we will be forced to make changes in not only the way we live in the environment but also in the environment itself such as designing the cities of the future to be in greater harmony with the increasing population and growing complexity.The paper contains both reflections on global awareness and comprehensive criteria and their priorities for choosing the most desirable city.     

Interdisciplinarity: Potentials and Challenges

Interdisciplinarity, as a concept and practice, is reviewed and related to a recent article (Romm, 1998) in this journal. Authors advocating interdisciplinarity for social research and problem solving seem to have diverse, if often largely implicit, epistemological, and other assumptions informing their proposals. Romm (1998) develops and advocates a critical and reflexive orientation for tying interdisciplinarity to action research and related endeavors. For some academicians, however, interdisciplinarity appears to be considered a relatively unproblematic pursuit of merely selecting appropriate methods. Significant issues and questions concerning interdisciplinary pursuits, particularly in academic settings, exist and are briefly explored, based on the experiences and perceptions of the author. Basic structures and processes found in fields such as action research/science and management systems often seem neglected and very much needed for interdisciplinary inquiry and knowledge construction.     

相控阵雷达旁瓣对消工作模式研究

从解矩阵方程的角度出发 ,在理论上分析了雷达旁瓣对消系统对消旁瓣干扰的工作原理 ,并由此得出了雷达实现最佳旁瓣干扰对消所需满足的条件 ,同时给出了实际的雷达旁瓣对消系统可能的四种工作模式 ,并比较了其优缺点。给出的最佳旁瓣对消条件 ,在雷达旁瓣对消系统的整体设计和对消系统性能的分析中将具有实际的指导意义。     

Children's family change: reports and records of mothers, fathers and children compared

Family change, when adults depart or arrive around children, raises policy issues. Its measurement depends upon the evidence collected and from whom. This paper compares British children's histories obtained from fathers and mothers. The evidence, on one birth cohort of parents, comes from two sources: the National Child Development Study and the ONS Longitudinal Study. The resulting account of family change is not substantially different between parents. There is some under-reporting of children not living with their fathers. This is due to under-reporting by those included in the studies and to under-representation in them of absent fathers and lone parents.     

Design of continuous long slot leaky-wave antenna for millimeter wave application

A simple and efficient design scheme of the continuous long slot leaky-wave antenna is developed. The key steps involved in the scheme are summarized. First, the cut-off frequencies of slot waveguides with different slot offsets are obtained by 3D finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Second, the attenuation function αra is estimated by the aperture distribution, and the attenuation function αrs is determined by the slot radiation.Finally, the attenuation function αra is combined with the attenuation function αrs by the coefficient K. And an example in Ka band is presented. Moreover, the return loss of the E-plane Tee-junction (ET) and the radiation pattern of leaky-wave antenna are simulated. The scheme is verified by comparing with the experimental result.     

带有偏好锥的样本数据包络分析方法研究

针对传统数据包络分析方法无法依据确定参考面提供评价信息的弱点,给出了带有偏好锥的样本数据包络分析模型(PSam-C2WH)和相应的SCDEA有效性及弱有效性概念。分析了(PSam-C2WH)模型的性质以及它与传统DEA模型之间的关系,探讨了(PSam-C2WH)模型刻画的SCDEA有效性及弱有效性与相应的多目标规划非支配解之间的关系。进而,分析了决策单元在样本可能集中的分布特征、投影性质和模型含义等问题。     

Editorial

Systemic Practice and Action Research -     

In Search of Resonance

In this paper I explore the possibility of a complementary relationship between action research and the management and systems sciences. A range of purposes that action researchers and management and systems scientists pursue is initially set out. The paper then explores whether this diversity of purposes and the ways they recommend people to proceed may come together in a new whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. A potentially useful realization of this for practice is a reflexive process of critique, choice, and action, which is elaborated on. The paper then investigates what view of holism arises from the preceeding discussions.