Technical Reports from 2020
It Is Important to Take All Available Information into Account When Making a Decision: Case of the Two Envelopes Problem, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Predictably (Boundedly) Rational: Examples of Seemingly Irrational Behavior Can Be Quantitatively Explained by Bounded Rationality, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
The Similarity Between Earth's and Mars's Core-Mantle Boundary Seems to Be Statistically Significant, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why 3D Fragmentation Usually Leads to Cuboids: A Simple Geometric Explanation, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Significant Wave Height And Rogue Waves Are So Defined: A Possible Explanation, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Economics of Reciprocity and Temptation, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Nguyen Ngoc Thach
How the Proportion of People Who Agree to Perform a Task Depends on the Stimulus: A Theoretical Explanation of the Empirical Formula, Laxman Bokati, Vladik Kreinovich, and Doan Thanh Ha
How to Explain the Anchoring Formula in Behavioral Economics, Laxman Bokati, Vladik Kreinovich, and Chon Van Le
How to Combine (Dis)Utilities of Different Aspects into a Single (Dis)Utility Value, and How This Is Related to Geometric Images of Happiness, Laxman Bokati, Nguyen Hoang Phuong, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Immediate Repetition Is Good for Short-Time Learning Results but Bad For Long-Time Learning: Explanation Based on Decision Theory, Laxman Bokati, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Absence of Remotely Triggered Large Earthquakes: A Geometric Explanation, Laxman Bokati, Aaron A. Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich
Scale-Invariance and Fuzzy Techniques Explain the Empirical Success of Inverse Distance Weighting and of Dual Inverse Distance Weighting in Geosciences, Laxman Bokati, Aaron A. Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich
Optimal Search under Constraints, Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
What If We Use Almost-Linear Functions Instead of Linear Ones as a First Approximation in Interval Computations, Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Min, Max, Opening, and Closing Stock Prices Are Empirically Most Appropriate for Predictions, and Why Their Linear Combination Provides the Best Estimate for Beta, Somsak Chanaim, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Find the Dependence Based on Measurements with Unknown Accuracy: Towards a Theoretical Justification for Midpoint and Convex-Combination Interval Techniques and Their Generalizations, Somsak Chanaim and Vladik Kreinovich
Coding Overhead of Mobile Apps, Yoonsik Cheon
Why Black-Scholes Equations Are Effective Beyond Their Usual Assumptions: Symmetry-Based Explanation, Warattaya Chinnakum and Sean R. Aguilar
Decision Making Under Interval Uncertainty: Towards (Somewhat) More Convincing Justifications for Hurwicz Optimism-Pessimism Approach, Warattaya Chinnakum, Laura Berrout Ramos, Olugbenga Iyiola, and Vladik Kreinovich
Let Us Use Negative Examples in Regression-Type Problems Too, Jonatan Contreras, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Martine Ceberio
When Can We Be Sure that Measurement Results Are Consistent: 1-D Interval Case and Beyond, Hani Dbouk, Steffen Schön, Ingo Neumann, and Vladik Kreinovich
Centroids Beyond Defuzzification, Juan Carlos Figueroa-Garcia, Christian Servin, and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Efficiently Store Intermediate Results in Quantum Computing: Theoretical Explanation of the Current Algorithm, Oscar Galindo, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Majority Rule Does Not Work in Quantum Computing: A Pedagogical Explanation, Oscar Galindo, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
What Is the Optimal Annealing Schedule in Quantum Annealing, Oscar Galindo and Vladik Kreinovich
Quantum (and More General) Models of Research Collaboration, Oscar Galindo, Miroslav Svitek, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Mean, Variance, Moments, Correlation, Skewness etc. – Invariance-Based Explanations, Olga Kosheleva, Laxman Bokati, and Vladik Kreinovich
Advice to New Instructors: Systems Approach, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
A Fully Lexicographic Extension of Min or Max Operation Cannot Be Associative, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
A "Fuzzy" Like Button Can Decrease Echo Chamber Effect, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
A Mystery of Human Biological Development -- Can It Be Used to Speed up Computations?, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
A Natural Formalization of Changing-One's-Mind Leads to Square Root of "Not" and to Complex-Valued Fuzzy Logic, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
A Possible (Qualitative) Explanation of the Hierarchy Problem in Theoretical Physics, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Are There Traces of Megacomputing in Our Universe, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Can We Preserve Physically Meaningful "Macro" Analyticity without Requiring Physically Meaningless "Micro" Analyticity?, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Does Transition to Democracy Lead to Chaos: A Theorem, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Egyptian Fractions as Approximators, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Euclidean Distance Between Intervals Is the Only Representation-Invariant One, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Gifted and Talented: With Others? Separately? Mathematical Analysis of the Problem, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Healthy Lifestyle Decreases the Risk of Alzheimer Disease: A Possible Partial Explanation of an Empirical Dependence, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Detect Future Einsteins: Towards Systems Approach, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Lexicographic-Type Extension of Min-Max Logic Is Not Uniquely Determined, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Need for Shift-Invariant Fractional Differentiation Explains the Appearance of Complex Numbers in Physics, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Online Teaching -- Systems Approach: Questions and Answers, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Physical Randomness Can Help in Computations, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Preference for Boys Does Not Necessarily Lead to a Gender Disbalance: A Realistic Example, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Rosenzweig, Equality, and Assignment, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Students Who Took the Class Help Studenrs Who Are Taking It: What Is the Best Arrangement?, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
The Less We Love a Woman, the More She Likes Us: Pushkin's Observation Explained, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Two Pens In a Pocket Must Be Different: A Nerd-Oriented Lesson From Statistics, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich