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Technical Reports from 2020

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Is There a Contradiction Between Statistics and Fairness: From Intelligent Control to Explainable AI, Christian Servin and Vladik Kreinovich

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Need for Diversity in Elected Decision-Making Bodies: Economics-Related Analysis, Nguyen Ngoc Thach, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich

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How Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Computing Can Make Cyber-Physical Systems More Secure, Deepak Tosh, Oscar Galindo, Vladik Kreinovich, and Olga Kosheleva

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Natural Invariance Explains Empirical Success of Specific Membership Functions, Hedge Operations, and Negation Operations, Julio Urenda, Orsoly Csiszár, Gábor Csiszár, József Dombi, György Eigner, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Why Squashing Functions in Multi-Layer Neural Networks, Julio Urenda, Orsoly Csiszár, Gábor Csiszár, József Dombi, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and György Eigner

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How Mathematics and Computing Can Help Fight the Pandemic: Two Pedagogical Examples, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich

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How to Describe Measurement Errors: A Natural Generalization of the Central Limit Theorem Beyond Normal (and Other Infinitely Divisible) Distributions, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich

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So How Were the Tents of Israel Placed? A Bible-Inspired Geometric Problem, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Two Runners in the Time of Social Distancing, Speedboats in the Gulf of Finland: How to Best Pass?, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Why Most Empirical Distributions Are Few-Modal, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Why Number of Color Difference Works Better In Detecting Melanoma Than Number of Colors: A Possible Fractal-Based Explanation, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich

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COVID-19 Peak Immunity Values Seem to Follow Lognormal Distribution, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Tonghui Wang

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Equations for Which Newton's Method Never Works: Pedagogical Examples, Leobardo Valera, Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Why LASSO, Ridge Regression, and EN: Explanation Based on Soft Computing, Woraphon Yamaka, Hamza Alkhatib, Ingo Neumann, and Vladik Kreinovich

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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

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Grading Homeworks, Verifying Code: How Thorough Should the Feedback Be?, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich

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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

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Why Filtering Out Higher Harmonics Makes It Easier to Carry a Tune, Griselda Acosta, Eric Freudenthal, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Why Matrix Factorization Works Well in Recommender Systems: A Systems-Based Explanation, Griselda Acosta, Manuel Hernandez, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Dunning-Kruger Effect: A Simple System-Based Explanation, Griselda Acosta and Eric Smith

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Epicycles Are Almost as Good as Trigonometric Series: General System-Based Analysis, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich

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80/20 Rule Partially Explains 7 Plus Minus 2 Law: General System-Based Analysis, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich

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A Natural Explanation for the Minimum Entropy Production Principle, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich

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A Simple Quantitative Model of Cognitive Tradeoff Phenomenon, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Confirmation Bias in Systems Engineering: A Pedagogical Example, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich

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How to Explain That Changes in Elderlies Depression Level Are Uniformly Distributed, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Optimal Distribution of Testing Resources Between Different System Levels, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Status Quo Bias Actually Helps Decision Makers to Take Nonlinearity into Account: An Explanation, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Unexpected Empirical Dependence of Calf Gender on Insemination Time: System-Based Explanation, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Why Area Under the Curve in Hypothesis Testing?, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Why High-Level Attention Constantly Oscillates: System-Based Explanation, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Why IQ Test Scores Are Slightly Decreasing: Possible System-Based Explanation for the Reversed Flynn Effect, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Why Patients Do Not Always Follow Doctor's Advice: Systems Approach Explains Empirical Observation, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Why Pink Noise Is Best for Enhancing Sleep and Memory: System-Based Explanation, Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich

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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

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Why LASSO, EN, and CLOT: Invariance-Based Explanation, Hamza Alkhatib, Ingo Neumann, Vladik Kreinovich, and Chon Van Le

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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

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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

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Common Sense Addition Explained by Hurwicz Optimism-Pessimism Criterion, Bibek Aryal, Laxman Bokati, Karla Godinez, Shammir Ibarra, Heyi Liu, Bofei Wang, and Vladik Kreinovich

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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

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How Quantum Computing Can Help With (Continuous) Optimization, Christian Ayub, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Contrast Similarity Measures of Fuzzy Sets, Ildar Batyrshin, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, Nailya Kubysheva, and Raouf Akhtiamov

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A Theoretical Explanation for the Efficiency of Generalized Harmonic Wavelets in Engineering and Seismic Spectral Analysis, Michael Beer, Afshin Gholamy, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Which Distributions (or Families of Distributions) Best Represent Interval Uncertainty: Case of Permutation-Invariant Criteria, Michael Beer, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Why Spiking Neural Networks Are Efficient: A Theorem, Michael Beer, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Avoiding Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) Paradox: Towards a More Physically Adequate Description of a Quantum State, Joseph Bernal, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Dynamic Triggering of Earthquakes: Symmetry-Based Geometric Analysis, Laxman Bokati, Richard Alfaro, Aaron A. Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich

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How to Assign Grades to Tasks so as to Maximize Student Efforts, Laxman Bokati, Vyacheslav Kalashnikov, Nataliya Kalashnykova, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich

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How Can We Explain Different Number Systems?, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich

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How to Generate "Nice" Cubic Polynomials -- with Rational Coefficients, Rational Zeros and Rational Extrema: A Fast Algorithm, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich