Volume 7, Issue 3

To survive that is to eat and not to be eaten. Whatever its spatial and temporal level of organisation, every living system owns 7 invariant capacities (the gauge invariance paradigm). Emerging by embedments and juxtapositions of previous systems, every living system-of-systems is both dependent and independent from its new global level of organisation and past and present local situations of emergence. Mass growth governs growth phase duration. Local actors, modules of past, present and new modules of modules become mutually integrated (percolation process) into a new Whole through their merging into an ARMSADA (Association for the Reciprocal and Mutual Sharing of Advantages and DisAdvantages). Reversely (systemic constructal law) the global Whole is integrating the local parceners. Whatever the organisation level, the living systems obey the same principle of evolution and emergence, the volume and time of generation of the adult system obey a correlation: The mass controlled duration of acquisition of the reproductive capacity and the volume at its acquisition are linked by a 3/2 exponent power law. This dynamic fractal law is invariant, between and within le- vels of organisation. Brownian motion is the basic phenomenon of growth control: Matter and energy are exchanged at a constant flow rate. A Pareto-like relationship governs limits and limitations: Mutual survival depends on reciprocal limitations, through interactive feedbacks, for the best and for the worst. To survive that is to transform disadvantages into advantages and to avoid advantages turn to disadvantages.

As an generalization of hesitant fuzzy set, interval-valued hesitant fuzzy set and dual hesitant fuzzy set, interval-valued dual hesitant fuzzy set has been proposed and applied in multiple attribute decision making. Hamacher t-norm and t-conorm is an generalization of algebraic and Einstein t-norms and t-conorms. In order to combine interval-valued dual hesitant fuzzy aggregation operators with Hamacher t-norm and t-conorm. We first introduced some new Hamacher operation rules for interval-valued dual hesitant fuzzy elements. Then, several interval-valued dual hesitant fuzzy Hamacher aggregation operators are presented, some desirable properties and their special cases are studied. Further, a new multiple attribute decision making method with these operators is given, and an numerical example is provided to demonstrate that the developed approach is both valid and practical.

In space information networks, satellites are generally in high speed orbit motion. In order to obtain better spacial and temporal coverage performance, satellites should cooperate with each other as a constellation. Previous works on constellations mainly focus on global seamless coverage using fewer satellites. However, like most countries, it is hard for China to build ground stations in overseas, and the geostationary Earth orbit position resource is scarce. In this paper, we investigate the constellation design problem with restricted ground supporting. We first proposes a “backbone network + enhanced network” hybrid constellation design approach. Then a hybrid “4GEO+5IGSO” constellation is designed using the proposed approach, and the coverage performance of this constellation is analyzed in detail. Simulation results show the proposed approach can realize global seamless coverage only using a small number of satellites. Furthermore, the proposed hybrid constellation meets the coverage demand only relies on ground stations inside China.

The real time kinematic of global positioning system (GPS-RTK) provides precise positioning for bridge deformation monitoring and monitoring bridge health status. In order to solve the problem that the satellite signal is vulnerable to the influence of the positioning environment when monitoring bridges in the valleys and urban buildings[1], and the problem that Kalman fusion algorithm is difficult to detect the divergence caused by interruption or wrong data[2]. This paper proposes an improved Kalman filter fusion position method based on the BD/GPS fusion positioning. This improved algorithm introduces the environmental information. The confidence level is calculated with membership function by defining the confidence region of sensor, so as to the fusion weight coefficient is determined. This paper analyzes the performance of BD/GPS positioning in bridge monitoring through comparing the traditional fusion method with the improved fusion method. Experiments show that the improved algorithm eliminates the problem of error divergence; the average number of visible satellites in BD/GPS fusion positioning is increased by 7 compared with that of GPS single system positioning, the GDOP value is reduced by 21.83%, and the positioning error is reduced by 2.51 cm. The feasibility of all-weather monitoring in the mountains, buildings and other areas is verified, and millimeter accuracy is provided, which greatly improves the performance of bridge deformation monitoring.

The optimal decision-making of the low-carbon supply chain incorporating fairness concerns, such as the effort of reducing carbon emissions, the whole sale price and retail price, is analyzed by taking the Nash bargaining solution as the fairness reference point. The following conclusions are found. Firstly, the wholesale price is strongly influenced by the fairness concern of the manufacturer but weakly influenced by that of the retailer, although both statistically significantly. Secondly, both the manufacturer’s and retailer’s fairness concerns reduce carbon emissions dramatically to nearly the same extent. Thirdly, the effect of the manufacturer’s fairness concern on the retail price is so tiny that it can almost be ignored, while the retailer’s fairness concern changes the retail price remarkably.