Technical Reports from 2017
Do It Today Or Do It Tomorrow: Empirical Non-Exponential Discounting Explained by Symmetry and Fuzzy Ideas, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Thongchai Dumrongpokaphan
Technical Reports from 2016
Decision Making Under Interval Uncertainty as a Natural Example of a Quandle, Mahdokhat Afravi and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Make a Solution to a Territorial Dispute More Realistic: Taking into Account Uncertainty, Emotions, and Step-by-Step Approach, Mahdokhat Afravi and Vladik Kreinovich
What If We Use Different "And"-Operations in the Same Expert System, Mahdokhat Afravi and Vladik Kreinovich
Metric Spaces Under Interval Uncertainty: Towards an Adequate Definition, Mahdokhat Afravi, Vladik Kreinovich, and Thongchai Dumrongpokaphan
How Neural Networks (NN) Can (Hopefully) Learn Faster by Taking Into Account Known Constraints, Chitta Baral, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich
Analysis of the Execution Time Variation of OpenMP-based Applications on the Intel Xeon Phi, Roberto Camacho Barranco and Patricia J. Teller
Similarity Beyond Correlation: Symmetry-Based Approach, Ildar Batyrshin, Thongchai Dumrongpokaphan, Vladik Kreinovich, and Olga Kosheleva
Do we have compatible concepts of epistemic uncertainty?, Michael Beer, Scott Ferson, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Min-Based Conditioning, Salem Benferhat and Vladik Kreinovich
A Modification of Backpropagation Enables Neural Networks to Learn Preferences, Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich
Rotation-Invariance Can Further Improve State-of-the-Art Blind Deconvolution Techniques, Fernando Cervantes, Bryan E. Usevitch, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Lp-methods in Signal and Image Processing: A Fuzzy-Based Explanation, Fernando Cervantes, Bryan E. Usevitch, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Sparse? Fuzzy Techniques Explain Empirical Efficiency of Sparsity-Based Data- and Image-Processing Algorithms, Fernando Cervantes, Bryan E. Usevitch, Leobardo Valera, and Vladik Kreinovich
Fuzzy Techniques Provide a Theoretical Explanation for the Heuristic l^p-Regularization of Signals and Images, Fernando Cervantes, Bryan E. Usevitch, Leobardo Valera, Vladik Kreinovich, and Olga Kosheleva
Are Java Programming Best Practices Also Best Practices for Android?, Yoonsik Cheon
Writing JML Specifications Using Java 8 Streams, Yoonsik Cheon, Zejing Cao, and Khandoker Rahad
HifoCap: An Android App for Wearable Health Devices, Yoonsik Cheon and Rodrigo A. Romero
A classification of representable t-norm operators for picture fuzzy sets, Bui Cong Cuong, Vladik Kreinovich, and Roan Thi Ngan
Fuzzy Pareto Solution in Multi-criteria Group Decision Making with Intuitionistic Linguistic Preference Relation, Bui Cong Cuong, Vladik Kreinovich, Le Hoang Son, and Nilanjan Dey
Empirically Successful Transformations from Non-Gaussian to Close-to-Gaussian Distributions: Theoretical Justification, Thongchai Dumrongpokaphan, Perdo Barragan, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Cannot We Have a Strongly Consistent Family of Skew Normal (and Higher Order) Distributions, Thongchai Dumrongpokaphan and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Predict Nesting Sites and How to Measure Shoreline Erosion: Fuzzy and Probabilistic Techniques for Environment-Related Spatial Data Processing, Stephen Escarzaga, Craig Tweedie, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
One Needs to Be Careful When Dismissing Outliers: A Realistic Example, Carlos Fajardo, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Gaussian and Cauchy Functions in the Filled Function Method -- Why and What Next: On the Example of Optimizing Road Tolls, José Guadalupe Flores Muñiz, Vyacheslav V. Kalashnikov, Nataliya Kalashnykova, and Vladik Kreinovich
Specifying a Global Optimization Solver in Z, Angel F. Garcia Contreras and Yoonsik Cheon
Report on the Roundtable at the Computing Alliance for Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI) Summit, San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 12, 2015, Ann Q. Gates, Claudia Casas, and Andrea Tirres
A Heuristic Solution of the Toll Optimal Problem With Congestion Affected Costs, Vyacheslav Kalashnikov, José Guadalupe Flores Muñiz, and Nataliya Kalashnykova
Structure of Filled Functions: Why Gaussian and Cauchy Templates Are Most Efficient, Vyacheslav Kalashnikov, Vladik Kreinovich, José Guadalupe Flores Muñiz, and Nataliya Kalashnykova
How to Assign Numerical Values to Partially Ordered Levels of Confidence: Robustness Approach, Kimberly Kato
When We Know the Number of Local Maxima, Then We Can Compute All of Them, Olga Kosheleva, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich
Von Neumann-Morgenstern Solutions, Quantum Physics, and Stored Programs vs. Data: Unity of Von Neumann's Legacy, Olga Kosheleva, Martha Osegueda Escobar, and Vladik Kreinovich
A Simple Geometric Explanation of Occam's Razor, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Bell-Shaped Curve for Productivity Growth: An Explanation, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Big Data: A Geometric Explanation of a Seemingly Counterintuitive Strategy, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Cosmological Inflation: A Simple Qualitative Explanation, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
For Fuzzy Logic, Occam's Principle Explains the Ubiquity of the Golden Ratio and of the 80-20 Rule, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Geometric Symmetries Partially Explain Why Some Paleolithic Signs Are More Frequent, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Introduce Technical Details of Quantum Computing in a Theory of Computation Class: Using the Basic Case of the Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Interpolation Sometimes Enhances and Sometimes Impedes Spatial Correlation: Simple Pedagogical Examples, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
On Geometry of Finsler Causality: For Convex Cones, There Is No Affine-Invariant Linear Order (Similar to Comparing Volumes), Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Towards an Algebraic Description of Set Arithmetic, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Voting Aggregation Leads to (Interval) Median, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
What Is the Best Way to Add Large Number of Integers: Number-by-Number As Computers Do Or Lowest-Digits-Than-Next-Digits-Etc As We Humans Do?, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
When Invading, Cancer Cells Do Not Divide: A Geometric (Symmetry-Based) Explanation of an Empirical Observation, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Hausdorff Distance Is Natural in Interval Computations, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Locating Local Optima Is Sometimes More Complicated Than Locating Global Ones, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Most Bright Stars Are Binary But Most Dim Stars Are Single: A Simple Qualitative Explanation, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Multiplication Has Higher Priority than Addition: A Pedagogical Remark, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Product "And"-Operation Is Often Efficient: One More Argument, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich