45 Design of an Expert System for Distribution Planning System using Soft Computing Techniques Shabbir Uddin, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim, India Amitava Ray, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India Karma Sonam Sherpa, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sikki...

In this contribution we present results from the NLO computation of the production of a W boson in association with three jets in hadronic collisions. The results are obtained by combining two programs: BlackHat for the virtual one-loop matrix elements and Sherpa for the realemission contributions. We present results for the Tevatron and the LHC, and address the issue of the choice of a common ...

We present the implementation and validation of the techniques used to efficiently evaluate parametric and perturbative theoretical uncertainties in matrix-element plus parton-shower simulations within the Sherpa eventgenerator framework. By tracing the full αs and PDF dependences, including the parton-shower component, as well as the fixed-order scale uncertainties, we compute variational even...

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Numerical optimization of an inverted-bow trimaran is carried out through three simulation-based design (SBD) frameworks. Different positions the trimaran’s side hull are investigated based on a computational fluid dynamics solver using non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-III (NSGA-III), simultaneous hybrid exploration that robust, progressive and adaptive (SHERPA) response surface (RS) mul...