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A hierarchical phase space generator for QCD antenna structures
We present a ``hierarchical'' strategy for phase space generation in order to
efficiently map the antenna momentum structures, typically occurring in QCD
amplitudes.Comment: 21 pages, few typos corrected, figure added, to appear in
Eur.Phys.J.
WEXTER and ERAFITTER: two programs to fit M_W at LEP2 using the best measurable kinematical variables
In this paper, we present two programs to fit M_W at LEP2 using the best
measurable kinematical variables. The theoretical probabilities of observing
the final-state kinematical configurations are computed by integrating over the
quantities that are not well measured. Therefore, an event-by-event kinematical
reconstruction is avoided. M_W is then determined through a maximum likelihood
fit.Comment: 19 pages, Latex fil
Embedding ethics in the design of culturally competent socially assistive robots
Research focusing on the development of socially assistive robots (SARs) that will promote the health, well-being and quality of life of older persons and of their caregivers has been growing in recent years. This growth has prompted a great deal of ethical reflection on the future of SARs in care, but there is an increasing awareness of the divide that often separates the settings in which ethics research and debate take place from those where technological innovation is practiced.
Different frameworks have been proposed to handle the ethical dimension of technology from within the design and development process, including Value Sensitive Design (VSD). VSD has been defined as a theoretically grounded approach to the design of technology that accounts for human values in a principled and comprehensive manner throughout the design process.
Inspired in part by VSD, we have developed a process geared towards embedding ethics at the core of CARESSES, an international multidisciplinary project that aims to design the first culturally competent SAR for the care of older adults. Here we describe that process, including how we utilized qualitative thematic analysis to extract key ethical concepts from relevant ethical guidelines (Alzheimer Europe's Guidelines and Position on the Ethical Use of Assistive Technologies for/by People with Dementia), and how we applied those concepts to the scenarios that describe how the CARESSES robot will interact with individuals belonging to different cultures and provide the grounding for its cultural competence. This straightforward approach highlights the ethical implications of the robot’s behavior during the design process and thus it enables researchers to identify and engage with ethical problems proactively, rather than restrict ethics to retrospective assessments. With suitable modifications, it may be usefully applied in other research projects involving SARs
Top-antitop pair hadroproduction in association with a heavy boson at the NLO QCD accuracy + Parton Shower
The PowHel framework allows to make predictions of total and differential
cross-sections of multiparticle hadroproduction processes at both NLO QCD
accuracy and NLO QCD matched to Parton Shower, on the basis of the interface
between the POWHEG-BOX and HELAC-NLO codes. It has already been applied to
study several processes involving a top-antitop pair in association with a
third particle or hadronic jet. Our most recent predictions concern
top-antitop-V hadroproduction (with V = W or Z), at both parton and hadron
level, by considering different decay channels (hadronic and leptonic) of the
heavy particles. In particular, we show the results of our phenomenological
analyses under the same system of cuts also recently adopted by the CMS
collaboration at LHC.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of TOP 2012 - 5th International
Workshop on Top Quark Physics, September 16 - 21 2012, Winchester, U
Achieving "Massive MIMO" Spectral Efficiency with a Not-so-Large Number of Antennas
The main focus and contribution of this paper is a novel network-MIMO TDD
architecture that achieves spectral efficiencies comparable with "Massive
MIMO", with one order of magnitude fewer antennas per active user per cell. The
proposed architecture is based on a family of network-MIMO schemes defined by
small clusters of cooperating base stations, zero-forcing multiuser MIMO
precoding with suitable inter-cluster interference constraints, uplink pilot
signals reuse across cells, and frequency reuse. The key idea consists of
partitioning the users population into geographically determined "bins", such
that all users in the same bin are statistically equivalent, and use the
optimal network-MIMO architecture in the family for each bin. A scheduler takes
care of serving the different bins on the time-frequency slots, in order to
maximize a desired network utility function that captures some desired notion
of fairness. This results in a mixed-mode network-MIMO architecture, where
different schemes, each of which is optimized for the served user bin, are
multiplexed in time-frequency. In order to carry out the performance analysis
and the optimization of the proposed architecture in a clean and
computationally efficient way, we consider the large-system regime where the
number of users, the number of antennas, and the channel coherence block length
go to infinity with fixed ratios. The performance predicted by the large-system
asymptotic analysis matches very well the finite-dimensional simulations.
Overall, the system spectral efficiency obtained by the proposed architecture
is similar to that achieved by "Massive MIMO", with a 10-fold reduction in the
number of antennas at the base stations (roughly, from 500 to 50 antennas).Comment: Full version with appendice (proofs of theorems). A shortened version
without appendice was submitted to IEEE Trans. on Wireless Commun. Appendix B
was revised after submissio
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