An important class of problems can be cast as inference in noisyOR Bayesian networks, where the binary state of each variable is a logical OR of noisy versions of the states of the variable's parents. For example, in medical diagnosis, the presence of a symptom can be expressed as a noisy-OR of the diseases that may cause the symptom on some occasions, a disease may fail to activate the symptom...

We compute the inclusive decay rates b → D − s (D * − s)c including lowest order QCD corrections on the quark legs, and compare with existing CLEO data. Unlike the short distance QCD corrections, that are of higher order, these corrections are of order α s. In the on-shell renormalization scheme and for α s (m b) ∼ = 0.2 we find a correction of −10 % to the inclusive rate computed using factori...

The purpose of this Special Issue on inclusive research is to capture international insights into the following questions: “How far have we come [...]

During disasters the death of persons with disabilities is higher than that rest population. This problem has many causes, and one them to do conditions physical environments which are not accessible for all, implying people require more time effort try escape from dangerous places, protect themselves, reach safety areas such as public spaces where can gather, help each other, remain safe at le...

Workflow graphs represent the main control-flow constructs of industrial process modeling languages such as BPMN, EPC and UML Activity diagrams, whereas free-choice workflow nets is a well understood class of Petri nets that possesses many efficient analysis techniques. In this paper, we provide new results on the translation between workflow graphs and free-choice workflow nets. We distinguish...