VTS Distinguished Lecturers and Speakers

|Vtd|, |Vts| and rare kaon decays

Decision support for vessel traffic service (VTS): user needs for dynamic risk management in the VTS.

Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) is a shore-side service implemented by a "Competent Authority to improve the safety and efficiency of vessel traffic and to protect the environment". It is a service that operates through VTS centers, from which VTS operators monitor traffic, assist in navigational matters and provide information to all ships in a designated area. As VTS is provided by operators loc...

Efficient VTS Adaptation Using Jacobian Approximation

By exploiting a model of environmental distortion, model adaptation based on vector Taylor series (VTS) approaches have been shown to significantly improve the robustness of speech recognizers to environmental noise. However, the computational cost of VTS model adaptation (MVTS) methods hinders them from being more widely used. In this paper, we propose to reduce the computational cost of MVTS ...

Panel 12C: Apprentice - VTS edition judging session

This is the judging session for the Panel 4A: Apprentice – VTS edition. The main objective of this active “panel” is to increase technical interaction among attendees. Team leaders listed below will recruit participants to their team. Each team will try to clearly articulate the problems and come up with ways to solve this problem in the form of new business proposal. The teams will present the...

Exclusive B → Mℓ + ℓ − (M = π, K, ρ, K ∗ ) Decays and Determinations of |Vts | and/or |Vtd/Vts|

We examine the possibility for precise determination of |Vtd| and/or |Vtd/Vts| from the ratios of exclusive decays, (B → ρl+l−)/(B → K∗l+l−) and (B → πl+l−)/(B → Kl+l−). We show that the ratio |Vtd/Vts| can be extracted experimentally with a small theoretical uncertainty from SU(3) breaking effects and hadronic form–factors, if we appropriately constrain kinematical regions of q2. We also give ...