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The primary task of carrier formation maritime logistics support is to supply ammunition, oil, food, water, and other materials to carrier and formation ships at sea, ensuring strong survivability and sustained combat capability. To ensure adequate supplies for maritime missions, the logistics department needs to make an accurate scientific prediction of material consumption before the mission. In this paper, a method for maritime logistics support material demand prediction based on an improved least squares support vector machine is proposed, and the feasibility and accuracy of the method are validated through various arithmetic examples and realistic scenarios, demonstrating its practical applicability and accuracy in predicting material demands.

Model-based system engineering(MBSE) uses the architecture model to drive system development. It has been widely used in aeronautical and aerospace systems development. Integrated Logistics Support(ILS) design is an essential part of system engineering. Still, there is no clear guidance on how to perform model-based ILS architecture modeling. This paper proposes a unified model-based system and ILS architecture modeling framework, which analyzes the relationship between the system and ILS in different life cycle concepts and gives a clear ILS architecture modeling approach. The unified system and ILS architecture modeling way will take full advantage of the model from the mission level to the system level to guarantee the different architecture perspectives consistency and save cost and time in the engineering practice.

As the Web enters its third decade of existence, I draw attention to the need to better understand the Web as a potential reference case for how an information system transforms through incremental innovations, with particular focus on the Web’s advancement as a communication media platform. As a necessary research step in this quest, I critically examine whether one can use existing media capacity theories and media-related buzzwords (such as rich media, multimedia, hypermedia, social media) to characterize Web innovations as media. I examine and clarify these buzzwords’ origins, meanings, and relationship with media capacity theories. I also elucidate discrepancies between them. Via inductive reasoning, I synthesize three media capacity dimensions (sensibility support, interactivity support and logistical support) as potential framework for objective media characterization. Each dimension could metamorphize into individual theories or one theory (e.g., sensibility interactivity and logistical support theory (SILST)). I present these dimensions’ indicators and demonstrate three-dimensional typology of Web innovation milestones anchored on the three dimensions—a step forward in substantiating the framework’s applicability to media capacity characterization.

One barrier to persistent operations in systems of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) served by logistics support stations is the need for methods to manage and efficiently schedule system resources. This paper presents a scheduling framework for UAV systems served by battery charging and battery replacement stations. We extend existing Petri net models for these systems to prevent unwanted resource overlap and impose a resource pairing rule to facilitate cyclic operation. Based on this rule, an extended Petri net that explicitly models the interactions of specific resources is derived. The detailed nature of the extended Petri net allows for the creation of linear programs that capture the structure of the net and generate optimal cyclic resource schedules. These cyclic schedules enable the persistent orchestration of tasks for UAV and logistics support stations. Computational complexity of the linear programs is explored.

Spare parts are treated as the basis to guarantee the safe and economic operation of civil aircraft, its scientific prediction and reasonable configuration play an important role in perfecting integrated logistics support (ILS) and achieving win-win situation of stakeholders (e.g. manufacturers, operators, maintenance providers). This paper studies the existing spare parts prediction and configuration methods of civil aircraft, and discusses future development trend of spare parts from the perspective of prediction and configuration, respectively. The current development status of civil aircraft spare parts prediction techniques are firstly introduced, according to demand characteristics of spare parts; the present research status of civil aircraft spare parts configuration methods are then elaborated, based on the traditional methods and machine learning methods; the development trend of civil aircraft spare parts prediction and configuration methods is finally analyzed, combined with the advantages and disadvantages of the existing methods of civil aircraft spare parts management methods. The efforts of this work provide a reference for the comprehensive management of civil aircraft spare parts and improve the perfection degree for the ILS of civil aircraft.

City logistics aims to reduce the nuisances associated to freight transportation in urban areas while supporting their economic and social development. The fundamental idea is to view individual stakeholders and decisions as components of an integrated logistics system. This implies the coordination of shippers, carriers, and movements as well as the consolidation of loads of several customers and carriers into the same environment-friendly vehicles. City logistics explicitly aims to optimize such advanced urban transportation systems. We focus on a challenging city logistics planning issue, the integrated short-term scheduling of operations and management of resources, for the general case involving a two-tiered distribution structure. We investigate the main issues related to the problem, introduce a new problem class, propose both a general model and formulations for the main system components, and identify promising solution avenues.

Integrated logistics support (ILS) is of great significance for maintaining equipment operational capability in the whole lifecycle. Numerous segments and complex product objects exist in the process of equipment ILS, which gives ILS data multi-source, heterogeneous, and multidimensional characteristics. The present ILS data cannot satisfy the demand for efficient utilization. Therefore, the unified modeling of ILS data is extremely urgent and significant. In this paper, a unified data modeling method is proposed to solve the consistent and comprehensive expression problem of ILS data. Firstly, a four-tier unified data modeling framework is constructed based on the analysis of ILS data characteristics. Secondly, the Core unified data model, Domain unified data model, and Instantiated unified data model are built successively. Then, the expressions of ILS data in the three dimensions of time, product, and activity are analyzed. Thirdly, the Lifecycle ILS unified data model is constructed, and the multidimensional information retrieval methods are discussed. Based on these, different systems in the equipment ILS process can share a set of data models and provide ILS designers with relevant data through different views. Finally, the practical ILS data models are constructed based on the developed unified data modeling software prototype, which verifies the feasibility of the proposed method.

Electricity consumption during oil production is a significant cost for industry enterprises. One of state policy’s most important tasks in extracting minerals is increasing energy efficiency and the intellectualization of control and management systems. The solution to these tasks can be achieved through competent planning of the technological process and the organization of information support at all stages. The paper presents the development of a method for power consumption, the optimization of an electric submersible pump installation. The technological restrictions are also identified. The developed methodology was tested; according to the results of the calculations, it was found that the reduction in specific power consumption can reach 12.68%. An assessment of the economic feasibility of the changing parameters of the electrical equipment has been carried out. Within the framework of the integrated logistic support approach, a program was developed for the selection of rational parameters of equipment in order to increase the energy efficiency of the installation of electric submersible pumps. The research results can be applied to oil-extracting industry enterprises in the framework of energy efficiency improvement programs.

The use of integrated logistic support methods and the calculation of life cycle costs, provide a comprehensive view of the total value of a system over time. A project for the construction of two lifeboats is studied and a life cycle analysis is proposed, identifying and highlighting the system cost structure of each phase in time, from design to disposal. The results help evaluate the project sustainability and carry out its management, supporting decision-making in different phases, planning and controlling the operation and maintenance of the system, and obtaining the necessary resources.

The requirements for the logistic support in multinational operations are not totally different than those for classic operations, as we know them at the present moment. But what differentiates them for sure, is the multinational framework that incorporates the military actions, the multiculturalism of tactics, techniques and procedures by which NATO and non-NATO member states, that participate in the multinational operation, understand to provide the logistic support to their own troops, as well as the different roles accepted to be fulfilled by one country or another (Lead Nation for Logistics, Specialized Role Nation, Host Nation Support, etc).