Technical Reports from 2020
Equations for Which Newton's Method Never Works: Pedagogical Examples, Leobardo Valera, Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why LASSO, Ridge Regression, and EN: Explanation Based on Soft Computing, Woraphon Yamaka, Hamza Alkhatib, Ingo Neumann, and Vladik Kreinovich
Being Active in Research Makes a Person a Better Teacher and Even Helps When Working for a Company, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Grading Homeworks, Verifying Code: How Thorough Should the Feedback Be?, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Several Years of Practice May Not Be As Good as Comprehensive Training: Zipf's Law Explains Why, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Technical Reports from 2019
Why Filtering Out Higher Harmonics Makes It Easier to Carry a Tune, Griselda Acosta, Eric Freudenthal, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Matrix Factorization Works Well in Recommender Systems: A Systems-Based Explanation, Griselda Acosta, Manuel Hernandez, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich
Dunning-Kruger Effect: A Simple System-Based Explanation, Griselda Acosta and Eric Smith
Epicycles Are Almost as Good as Trigonometric Series: General System-Based Analysis, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
80/20 Rule Partially Explains 7 Plus Minus 2 Law: General System-Based Analysis, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich
A Natural Explanation for the Minimum Entropy Production Principle, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich
A Simple Quantitative Model of Cognitive Tradeoff Phenomenon, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich
Confirmation Bias in Systems Engineering: A Pedagogical Example, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Explain That Changes in Elderlies Depression Level Are Uniformly Distributed, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich
Optimal Distribution of Testing Resources Between Different System Levels, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich
Status Quo Bias Actually Helps Decision Makers to Take Nonlinearity into Account: An Explanation, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich
Unexpected Empirical Dependence of Calf Gender on Insemination Time: System-Based Explanation, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Area Under the Curve in Hypothesis Testing?, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why High-Level Attention Constantly Oscillates: System-Based Explanation, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why IQ Test Scores Are Slightly Decreasing: Possible System-Based Explanation for the Reversed Flynn Effect, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Patients Do Not Always Follow Doctor's Advice: Systems Approach Explains Empirical Observation, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Pink Noise Is Best for Enhancing Sleep and Memory: System-Based Explanation, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich
Smaller Standard Deviation for Initial Weights Improves Performance of Classifying Neural Networks: A Theoretical Explanation of Unexpected Simulation Results, Diego Aguirre, Philip Hassoun, Rafael Lopez, Crystal Serrano, Marcoantonio R. Soto, Andrea Torres, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why LASSO, EN, and CLOT: Invariance-Based Explanation, Hamza Alkhatib, Ingo Neumann, Vladik Kreinovich, and Chon Van Le
How to Reconcile Randomness with Physicists' Belief that Every Theory Is Approximate: Informal Knowledge Is Needed, Ricardo Alvarez, Nick Sims, Christian Servin, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich
If Space-Time Is Discrete, We May Be Able to Solve NP-Hard Problems in Polynomial Time, Ricardo Alvarez, Nick Sims, Christian Servin, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich
Common Sense Addition Explained by Hurwicz Optimism-Pessimism Criterion, Bibek Aryal, Laxman Bokati, Karla Godinez, Shammir Ibarra, Heyi Liu, Bofei Wang, and Vladik Kreinovich
Scale-Invariance-Based Pre-Processing Drastically Improves Neural Network Learning: Case Study of Diagnosing Lung Dysfunction in Children, Nancy Avila, Julio Urenda, Nelly Gordillo, and Vladik Kreinovich
How Quantum Computing Can Help With (Continuous) Optimization, Christian Ayub, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich
Contrast Similarity Measures of Fuzzy Sets, Ildar Batyrshin, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, Nailya Kubysheva, and Raouf Akhtiamov
A Theoretical Explanation for the Efficiency of Generalized Harmonic Wavelets in Engineering and Seismic Spectral Analysis, Michael Beer, Afshin Gholamy, and Vladik Kreinovich
Which Distributions (or Families of Distributions) Best Represent Interval Uncertainty: Case of Permutation-Invariant Criteria, Michael Beer, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Spiking Neural Networks Are Efficient: A Theorem, Michael Beer, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Avoiding Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) Paradox: Towards a More Physically Adequate Description of a Quantum State, Joseph Bernal, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Dynamic Triggering of Earthquakes: Symmetry-Based Geometric Analysis, Laxman Bokati, Richard Alfaro, Aaron A. Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Assign Grades to Tasks so as to Maximize Student Efforts, Laxman Bokati, Vyacheslav Kalashnikov, Nataliya Kalashnykova, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
How Can We Explain Different Number Systems?, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Generate "Nice" Cubic Polynomials -- with Rational Coefficients, Rational Zeros and Rational Extrema: A Fast Algorithm, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
When Revolutions Succeed? 80/20 Rule and 7 Plus Minus 2 Law Explain the 3.5% Rule, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Deep Learning Is More Efficient than Support Vector Machines, and How It Is Related to Sparsity Techniques in Signal Processing, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Decision Theory Can Explain Why Buying and Selling Prices Are Different, Laxman Bokati and Vladik Kreinovich
Decision Theory Explains "Telescoping Effect" -- That Our Time Perception Is Biased, Laxman Bokati and Vladik Kreinovich
Is "No Trade Theorem" Really a Paradox: Analysis Based on Decision Theory, Laxman Bokati and Vladik Kreinovich
Maximum Entropy Approach to Portfolio Optimization: Economic Justification of an Intuitive Diversity Idea, Laxman Bokati and Vladik Kreinovich
Why 7 Plus Minus 2? A Possible Geometric Explanation, Laxman Bokati, Vladik Kreinovich, and Jordan Katz
Why Gamma Distribution of Seismic Inter-Event Times: A Theoretical Explanation, Laxman Bokati, Aaron A. Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich
Multiplatform Application Development for Android and Java, Yoonsik Cheon
Code Reuse Between Java and Android Applications, Yoonsik Cheon, Carlos V. Chavez, and Ubaldo Castro
Decision Making Under General Set Uncertainty: Additivity Approach, Srialekya Edupalli and Vladik Kreinovich
Faster Quantum Alternative to Softmax Selection in Deep Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning, Oscar Galindo, Christian Ayub, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich