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Electric Character of Strange Stars
Using the Thomas-Fermi model, we investigated the electric characteristics of
a static non-magnetized strange star without crust in this paper. The exact
solutions of electron number density and electric field above the quark surface
are obtained. These results are useful if we are concerned about physical
processes near the quark matter surfaces of strange stars.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX, Published in Chinese Physics Letters,
Vol.16, p.77
Vehicle Scheduling Optimization considering the Passenger Waiting Cost
In the operational planning process of public transport, the time a passenger spends on waiting is a very critical element for judging passenger service. Schedule synchronization is a useful strategy for reducing bus waiting time and improving service connectivity. This paper develops an extended vehicle scheduling model, taking into account the interests of passengers and operators in attaining optimization of timetable synchronization integrated with vehicle scheduling and considering the passenger waiting cost. Deficit functions at terminals are formulated. Deadheading (DH), shifting departure time (SDT), and network flow technique are used for vehicle scheduling with the consideration of passenger waiting times. An experimental study in Beijing is conducted and three important bus lines are selected as a regional bus network to demonstrate the methodology developed. Results show that both the fleet size of bus operators and the waiting cost of passengers are minimized. For example, the minimum fleet size can be reduced from 28 vehicles to 24 ones while the passenger times are less than 20 minutes in this multidepot network.
Document type: Articl
Real-Time Bidding by Reinforcement Learning in Display Advertising
The majority of online display ads are served through real-time bidding (RTB)
--- each ad display impression is auctioned off in real-time when it is just
being generated from a user visit. To place an ad automatically and optimally,
it is critical for advertisers to devise a learning algorithm to cleverly bid
an ad impression in real-time. Most previous works consider the bid decision as
a static optimization problem of either treating the value of each impression
independently or setting a bid price to each segment of ad volume. However, the
bidding for a given ad campaign would repeatedly happen during its life span
before the budget runs out. As such, each bid is strategically correlated by
the constrained budget and the overall effectiveness of the campaign (e.g., the
rewards from generated clicks), which is only observed after the campaign has
completed. Thus, it is of great interest to devise an optimal bidding strategy
sequentially so that the campaign budget can be dynamically allocated across
all the available impressions on the basis of both the immediate and future
rewards. In this paper, we formulate the bid decision process as a
reinforcement learning problem, where the state space is represented by the
auction information and the campaign's real-time parameters, while an action is
the bid price to set. By modeling the state transition via auction competition,
we build a Markov Decision Process framework for learning the optimal bidding
policy to optimize the advertising performance in the dynamic real-time bidding
environment. Furthermore, the scalability problem from the large real-world
auction volume and campaign budget is well handled by state value approximation
using neural networks.Comment: WSDM 201
NLO QCD + NLO EW corrections to productions with leptonic decays at the LHC
Precision tests of the Standard Model (SM) require not only accurate
experiments, but also precise and reliable theoretical predictions. Triple
vector boson production provides a unique opportunity to investigate the
quartic gauge couplings and check the validity of the gauge principle in the
SM. Since the tree-level predictions alone are inadequate to meet this demand,
the next-to-leading order (NLO) calculation becomes compulsory. In this paper,
we calculate the NLO QCD + NLO electroweak (EW) corrections to the
productions with subsequent leptonic decays at the LHC by
adopting an improved narrow width approximation which takes into account the
off-shell contributions and spin correlations from the - and -boson
leptonic decays. The NLO QCD+EW corrected integrated cross sections for the
productions and some kinematic distributions of final products are
provided. The results show that both the NLO QCD and NLO EW corrections are
significant. In the jet-veto event selection scheme with , the NLO QCD+EW relative corrections to the integrated cross section
are and , while the genuine NLO EW relative corrections are
and , for the and productions, respectively.
We also investigate the theoretical dependence of the integrated cross section
on the factorization/renormalization scale, and find that the scale uncertainty
is underestimated at the LO due to the fact that the strong coupling
is not involved in the LO matrix elements.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figure
High visibility on-chip quantum interference of single surface plasmons
Quantum photonic integrated circuits (QPICs) based on dielectric waveguides
have been widely used in linear optical quantum computation. Recently, surface
plasmons have been introduced to this application because they can confine and
manipulate light beyond the diffraction limit. In this study, the on-chip
quantum interference of two single surface plasmons was achieved using
dielectric-loaded surface-plasmon-polariton waveguides. The high visibility
(greater than 90%) proves the bosonic nature of single plasmons and emphasizes
the feasibility of achieving basic quantum logic gates for linear optical
quantum computation. The effect of intrinsic losses in plasmonic waveguides
with regard to quantum information processing is also discussed. Although the
influence of this effect was negligible in the current experiment, our studies
reveal that such losses can dramatically reduce quantum interference visibility
in certain cases; thus, quantum coherence must be carefully considered when
designing QPIC devices.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
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