Technical Reports from 2013
Towards Discrete Interval, Set, and Fuzzy Computations, Enrique Portillo, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Checking Monotonicity Is NP-Hard Even for Cubic Polynomials, Andrzej Pownuk, Luc Longpre, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why ℓ1 Is a Good Approximation to ℓ0: A Geometric Explanation, Carlos Ramirez, Vladik Kreinovich, and Miguel Argaez
√(x2 + μ) is the Most Computationally Efficient Smooth Approximation to |x|: a Proof, Carlos Ramirez, Reinaldo Sanchez, Vladik Kreinovich, and Miguel Argaez
Relation Between Polling and Likert-Scale Approaches to Eliciting Membership Degrees Clarified by Quantum Computing, Renata Hax Sander Reiser, Adriano Maron, Lidiane Visintin, Ana Maria Abeijon, and Vladik Kreinovich
An Ontological Approach to Capture Data Provenance Across Multiple Platforms, Leonardo Salayandia
From p-Boxes to p-Ellipsoids: Towards an Optimal Representation of Imprecise Probabilities, Konstantin K. Semenov and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Gauge Accuracy of Measurements and of Expert Estimates: Beyond Normal Distributions, Christian Servin, Aline Jaimes, Craig Tweedie, Aaron A. Velasco, Omar Ochoa, and Vladik Kreinovich
Images are Easier to Restore than 1-D Signals: A Theoretical Explanation of a Surprising Empirical Phenomenon, Christian Servin and Vladik Kreinovich
A Vine Copula Approach for Analyzing Financial Risk and Co-movement of the Indonesian, Philippine and Thailand Stock Markets, Songsak Sriboonchitta, Jianxu Liu, Vladik Kreinovich, and Hung T. Nguyen
Vine Copulas as a Way to Describe and Analyze Multi-Variate Dependence in Econometrics: Computational Motivation and Comparison with Bayesian Networks and Fuzzy Approaches, Songsak Sriboonchitta, Jianxu Liu, Vladik Kreinovich, and Hung T. Nguyen
Fuzziness and Bayesian Analysis in Engineering, Matthias Stein, Michael Beer, and Vladik Kreinovich
Bayesian Approach for Inconsistent Information, M. Stein, Michael Beer, and Vladik Kreinovich
Enhancing the Expressiveness of the CleanJava Language, Melisa Vela and Yoonsik Cheon
Aggregation Operations from Quantum Computing, Lidiane Visintin, Adriano Maron, Renata Reiser, Ana Maria Abeijon, and Vladik Kreinovich
Towards Fuzzy Method for Estimating Prediction Accuracy for Discrete Inputs, with Application to Predicting At-Risk Students, Xiaojing Wang, Martine Ceberio, and Angel F. Garcia Contreras
Lexical and Prosodic Indicators of Importance in Spoken Dialog, Nigel G. Ward and Karen A. Richart-Ruiz
Data Collection for the Similar Segments in Social Speech Task, Nigel G. Ward and Steven D. Werner
Data Anonymization that Leads to the Most Accurate Estimates of Statistical Characteristics, Gang Xiang and Vladik Kreinovich
Data Anonymization that Leads to the Most Accurate Estimates of Statistical Characteristics: Fuzzy-Motivated Approach, G. Xiang, S. Ferson, L. Ginzburg, L. Longpre, E. Mayorga, and O. Kosheleva
CJC: An Extensible Checker for the CleanJava Annotation Language, Cesar Yeep
A New Analog Optical Processing Scheme for Solving NP-Hard Problems, Michael Zakharevich and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Faster Test a Device for Different Combinations of Parameters, Francisco Zapata, Luis C. Gutierrez, and Vladik Kreinovich
Knowledge Geometry Is Similar to General Relativity: Both Mass and Knowledge Curve the Corresponding Spaces, Francisco Zapata and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Generate Worst-Case Scenarios When Testing Already Deployed Systems Against Unexpected Situations, Francisco Zapata, Ricardo Pineda, and Martine Ceberio
Technical Reports from 2012
Decision Making under Interval and Fuzzy Uncertainty: Towards an Operational Approach, Rafik Aliev, Oleg H. Huseynov, and Vladik Kreinovich
Algorithmics of Checking Whether a Mapping Is Injective, Surjective, and/or Bijective, E. Cabral Balreira, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Interval or Moments: Which Carry More Information?, Michael Beer and Vladik Kreinovich
Estimating Statistical Characteristics of Lognormal and Delta-Lognormal Distributions under Interval Uncertainty: Algorithms and Computational Complexity, Nitaya Buntao, Sa-aat Niwitpong, and Vladik Kreinovich
Simplicity Is Worse Than Theft: A Constraint-Based Explanation of a Seemingly Counter-Intuitive Russian Saying, Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Extending Java for Android Programming, Yoonsik Cheon
Kansei Engineering: Towards Optimal Set of Designs, Van-Nam Huynh, Octavio Lerma, and Vladik Kreinovich
Estimating Correlation under Interval and Fuzzy Uncertainty: Case of Hierarchical Estimation, Ali Jalal-Kamali
How to Define Average Class Size (and Deviations from the Average Class Size) in a Way Which Is Most Adequate for Teaching Effectiveness, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Divide Students into Groups so as to Optimize Learning: Towards a Solution to a Pedagogy-Related Optimization Problem, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Should Voting be Mandatory? Democratic Decision Making from the Economic Viewpoint, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Boakun Li
Kinematic Spaces and de Vries Algebras: Towards Possible Physical Meaning of de Vries Algebras, Olga Kosheleva and Francisco Zapata
Decision Making under Interval Uncertainty (and Beyond), Vladik Kreinovich
How to Define Relative Approximation Error of an Interval Estimate: A Proposal, Vladik Kreinovich
In Applications, A Rigorous Proof Is Not Enough: It Is Also Important to Have an Intuitive Understanding, Vladik Kreinovich
In Quantum Physics, Free Will Leads to Nonconservation of Energy, Vladik Kreinovich
Interval Uncertainty as the Basis for a General Description of Uncertainty: A Position Paper, Vladik Kreinovich
Membership Functions or alpha-Cuts? Algorithmic (Constructivist) Analysis Justifies an Interval Approach, Vladik Kreinovich
Negative Results of Computable Analysis Disappear If We Restrict Ourselves to Random (Or, More Generally, Typical) Inputs, Vladik Kreinovich
Research-related Projects for Graduate Students as a Tool to Motivate Graduate Students in Classes Outside Their Direct Interest Areas, Vladik Kreinovich
Towards Formalizing Non-Monotonic Reasoning in Physics: Logical Approach Based on Physical Induction and Its Relation to Kolmogorov Complexity, Vladik Kreinovich
Towards Optimizing Cloud Computing: An Example of Optimization under Uncertainty, Vladik Kreinovich
Zadeh's Vision of Going from Fuzzy to Computing With Words: from the Idea's Origin to Current Successes to Remaining Challenges, Vladik Kreinovich
Optimizing Computer Representation and Computer Processing of Epistemic Uncertainty for Risk-Informed Decision Making: Finances etc., Vladik Kreinovich, Nitaya Buntao, and Olga Kosheleva
How to Define Mean, Variance, etc., for Heavy-Tailed Distributions: A Fractal-Motivated Approach, Vladik Kreinovich and Olga Kosheleva