We analyze the contribution of the SUSY particles to the coupling of the lightest Higgs boson to two photons in supersymmetric theories. We discuss to what extent these contributions can be large enough to allow for a discrimination between the lightest SUSY and the standard Higgs particles in the decoupling limit where all other Higgs bosons are very heavy and no supersymmetric particle has be...

Uncertain variable is defined as a measurable function from an uncertainty space to the set of real numbers for describing subjective uncertain phenomena, which is employed to characterize the element, component and system lifetimes in this paper. Within the framework of uncertainty theory, reliability measure and percentile lifetime are defined to measure the system reliability in this paper. ...

Although a number of theories and principles have been developed to guide the creation of visualizations, it is not always apparent how to apply the knowledge in these principles. We describe the application of perceptual and cognitive theories for the analysis of uncertainty visualizations. General principles from Bertin, Tufte, and Ware are outlined and then applied to the analysis of eight d...

By entering the knowledge age and the appearance of knowledge economy, organizations are more dependent on knowledge workers productivity. Productivity means doing the right things right. It shows how a knowledge worker makes use of resources to fulfill the goals of the organization. This definition makes productivity be the result of simultaneous existence factors influencing knowledge workers...

We present two recent results on higher-order QCD corrections to the production of vector bosons in hadron collisions. We discuss the resummation of logarithmic-enhanced QCD corrections at small values of qT and the matching procedure to consistently combine resummation with the fixed-order perturbative result at intermediate and large qT . We study the perturbative uncertainty of the results a...

This paper derives an optimal (r; S) policy for uncertain multi-product newsboy problem. Demands for the products are estimated by experts and assumed to be independent uncertain variables. Uncertainty theory, which is a new mathematical tool to deal with human uncertainty, is employed to model demand distributions. A fixed setup cost and a linear ordering cost are incurred if products are orde...

This reply to papers by Pearl and Shafer focuses on two issues underlying the debate on the validity o f using Dempster-Shafer theory, namely the requirement of a process-independent semantics and the a priori need for multiple uncertainty calculi. Pearl shows deficiencies of Dempster-Shafer theory in dealing with several instances o f commonsense reasoning in a process-independent manner. Alth...