Technical Reports from 2020
Neural Networks, Vladik Kreinovich
White- and Black-Box Computing and Measurements under Limited Resources: Cloud, High Performance, and Quantum Computing, and Two Case Studies -- Robotic Boat and Hierarchical Covid Testing, Vladik Kreinovich, Martine Ceberio, and Olga Kosheleva
Approximate Version of Interval Computation Is Still NP-Hard, Vladik Kreinovich and Olga Kosheleva
How to Make Sure That Robot's Behavior Is Human-Like, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and Laxman Bokati
We Need Fuzzy Techniques to Design Successful Human-Like Robots, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and Laxman Bokati
Need for Simplicity and Everything Is a Matter of Degree: How Zadeh's Philosophy is Related to Kolmogorov Complexity, Quantum Physics, and Deep Learning, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and Andres Ortiz-Muñoz
Just-In-Time Teaching Adds Motivation but Is Less Efficient, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and Christian Servin
Theoretical Explanation of Recent Empirically Successful Code Quality Metrics, Vladik Kreinovich, Omar A. Masmali, Nguyen Hoang Phuong, and Omar Badreddin
Why Geometric Progression in Selecting the LASSO Parameter: A Theoretical Explanation, William Kubin, Yi Xie, Laxman Bokati, Vladik Kreinovich, and Kittawit Autchariyapanitkul
Why Linear Expressions in Discounting and in Empathy: A Symmetry-Based Explanation, Supanika Leurcharusmee, Laxman Bokati, and Olga Kosheleva
How to Train A-to-B and B-to-A Neural Networks So That the Resulting Transformations Are (Almost) Exact Inverses, Paravee Maneejuk, Torben Peters, Claus Brenner, and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Gauge the Quality of a Testing Method When Ground Truth Is Known with Uncertainty, Nicholas Gray, Scott Ferson, and Vladik Kreinovich
Building Postsecondary Pathways for Latinx Students in Computing: Lessons from Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Anne-Marie Núñez, David S. Knight, and Sanga Kim
New (Simplified) Derivation of Nash's Bargaining Solution, Nguyen Hoang Phuong, Laxman Bokati, and Vladik Kreinovich
Towards Making Fuzzy Techniques More Adequate for Combining Knowledge of Several Experts, Nguyen Hoang Phuong and Vladik Kreinovich
How the Amount of Cracks and Potholes Grows with Time: Symmetry-Based Explanation of Empirical Dependencies, Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Decide Which Cracks Should be Repaired First: Theoretical Explanation of Empirical Formulas, Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Common-Sense-Based Theoretical Explanation for an Empirical Formula Estimating Road Quality, Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez and Vladik Kreinovich
Scale-Invariance Ideas Explain the Empirical Soil-Water Characteristic Curve, Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez and Vladik Kreinovich
Strength of Lime Stabilized Pavement Materials: Possible Theoretical Explanation of Empirical Dependencies, Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez and Vladik Kreinovich
Towards a Theoretical Explanation of How Pavement Condition Index Deteriorates Over Time, Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Estimate the Stiffness of the Multi-Layer Road Based on Properties of Layers: Symmetry-Based Explanation for Odemark's Equation, Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and Nguyen Hoang Phuong
Why Some Powers Laws Are Possible And Some Are Not, Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and Nguyen Hoang Phuong
Why Ellipsoids in Mechanical Analysis of Wood Structures, F. Niklas Schietzold, Julio Urenda, Vladik Kreinovich, Wolfgang Graf, and Michael Kaliske
Adversarial Teaching Approach to Cybersecurity: A Mathematical Model Explains Why It Works Well, Christian Servin, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
A Recent Result about Random Metrics Explains Why All of Us Have Similar Learning Potential, Christian Servin, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Explain the Relation Between Different Empirical Covid-19 Self-Isolation Periods, Christian Servin, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Separate Absolute and Relative Error Components: Interval Case, Christian Servin, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Possibility to Algorithmically Check: Yet Another Reason Why Current Definitions Have Been Selected in Elementary Mathematics, Christian Servin, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Is There a Contradiction Between Statistics and Fairness: From Intelligent Control to Explainable AI, Christian Servin and Vladik Kreinovich
Need for Diversity in Elected Decision-Making Bodies: Economics-Related Analysis, Nguyen Ngoc Thach, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
How Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Computing Can Make Cyber-Physical Systems More Secure, Deepak Tosh, Oscar Galindo, Vladik Kreinovich, and Olga Kosheleva
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
Why Squashing Functions in Multi-Layer Neural Networks, Julio Urenda, Orsoly Csiszár, Gábor Csiszár, József Dombi, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and György Eigner
How Mathematics and Computing Can Help Fight the Pandemic: Two Pedagogical Examples, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich
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
So How Were the Tents of Israel Placed? A Bible-Inspired Geometric Problem, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
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
Why Most Empirical Distributions Are Few-Modal, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
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
COVID-19 Peak Immunity Values Seem to Follow Lognormal Distribution, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Tonghui Wang
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