Technical Reports from 2017
Can We Detect Crisp Sets Based Only on the Subsethood Ordering of Fuzzy Sets? Fuzzy Sets And/Or Crisp Sets Based on Subsethood of Interval-Valued Fuzzy Sets?, Christian Servin, Gerardo Muela, and Vladik Kreinovich
Beyond Integration: A Symmetry-Based Approach to Reaching Stationarity in Economic Time Series, Songsak Sriboonchitta, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
A Bad Plan Is Better Than No Plan: A Theoretical Justification of an Empirical Observation, Songsak Sriboonchitta and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Get Beyond Uniform When Applying MaxEnt to Interval Uncertainty, Songsak Sriboonchitta and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Are FGM Copulas Successful: A Simple Explanation, Songsak Sriboonchitta and Vladik Kreinovich
Taking Into Account Interval (and Fuzzy) Uncertainty Can Lead to More Adequate Statistical Estimates, Ligang Sun, Hani Dbouk, Steffen Schön, and Vladik Kreinovich
Efficient Algorithms for Synchroning Localization Sensors under Interval Uncertainty, Raphael Voges, Bernardo Wagner, and Vladik Kreinovich
Are Permanent or Temporary Teams More Efficient: A Possible Explanation of the Empirical Data, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
In Education, Delayed Feedback Is Often More Efficient Than Immediate Feedback: A Geometric Explanation, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Maybe the Usual Students' Practice of Cramming For a Test Makes Sense: A Mathematical Analysis, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Which Material Design Is Possible Under Additive Manufacturing: A Fuzzy Approach, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Stable Teams Are More Efficient in Education, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
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