CS Technical Reports
The file that you are reading contains the list of our 2019 reports. Links from this list lead to pdf files. Lists of reports from the previous years can be found by clicking on:
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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
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-91 in pdf | UTEP-CS-20-91b in pdf -
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
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-90 in pdf -
Why 3D Fragmentation Usually Leads to Cuboids: A Simple Geometric Explanation
Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-89 in pdf -
Why Cutting Trajectories Into Small Pieces Helps to Learn Dynamical Systems Better: A Seemingly Counterintuitive Empirical Result Explained
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-88 in pdf -
Need for Diversity in Elected Decision-Making Bodies: Economics-Related Analysis
Nguyen Ngoc Thach, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-87 in pdf -
Grading Homeworks, Verifying Code: How Thorough Should the Feedback Be?
Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-86 in pdf -
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
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-85 in pdf -
How to Make Sure That Robot's Behavior Is Human-Like
Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and Laxman Bokati
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-84 in pdf -
Euclidean Distance Between Intervals Is the Only Representation-Invariant One
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-83 in pdf -
How to Decide Which Cracks Should be Repaired First: Theoretical Explanation of Empirical Formulas
Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-82 in pdf | UTEP-CS-20-82b in pdf -
Two Pens In a Pocket Must Be Different: A Nerd-Oriented Lesson From Statistics
Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-81 in pdf -
Why Majority Rule Does Not Work in Quantum Computing: A Pedagogical Explanation
Oscar Galindo, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-80 in pdf -
COVID-19 Peak Immunity Values Seem to Follow Lognormal Distribution
Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Tonghui Wang
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-79 in pdf -
Adversarial Teaching Approach to Cybersecurity: A Mathematical Model Explains Why It Works Well
Christian Servin, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-78 in pdf | UTEP-CS-20-78a in pdf -
The Less We Love a Woman, the More She Likes Us: Pushkin's Observation Explained
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-77 in pdf -
Let Us Use Negative Examples in Regression-Type Problems Too
Jonatan Contreras, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Martine Ceberio
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-76 in pdf | UTEP-CS-20-76b in pdf -
Why Quadratic Log-Log Dependence Is Ubiquitous And What Next
Sean R. Aguilar, Vladik Kreinovich, and Uyen Pham
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-75 in pdf -
How Can Econometrics Help Fight the COVID'19 Pandemic?
Kevin Alvarez and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-74 in pdf -
Gifted and Talented: With Others? Separately? Mathematical Analysis of the Problem
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-73 in pdf -
A Fully Lexicographic Extension of Min or Max Operation Cannot Be Associative
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-72 in pdf -
What Is the Optimal Annealing Schedule in Quantum Annealing
Oscar Galindo and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-71 in pdf -
Lexicographic-Type Extension of Min-Max Logic Is Not Uniquely Determined
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-70 in pdf -
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
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-69 in pdf -
Why LASSO, Ridge Regression, and EN: Explanation Based on Soft Computing
Woraphon Yamaka, Hamza Alkhatib, Ingo Neumann, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-68 in pdf -
When Can We Be Sure that Measurement Results Are Consistent: 1-D Interval Case and Beyond
Hani Dbouk, Steffen Schoen, Ingo Neumann, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-67 in pdf -
Which Classes of Bi-Intervals Are Closed Under Addition?
Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Jonatan Contreras
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-66 in pdf -
Preference for Boys Does Not Necessarily Lead to a Gender Disbalance: A Realistic Example
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-65 in pdf -
Common-Sense-Based Theoretical Explanation for an Empirical Formula Estimating Road Quality
Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-64 in pdf -
Healthy Lifestyle Decreases the Risk of Alzheimer Disease: A Possible Partial Explanation of an Empirical Dependence
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-63 in pdf -
What If Not All Interval-Valued Fuzzy Degrees Are Possible?
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-62 in pdf -
Decision Making Under Interval Uncertainty Revisited
Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Uyen Pham
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-61 in pdf -
Are There Traces of Megacomputing in Our Universe
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-60 in pdf -
How to Detect Future Einsteins: Towards Systems Approach
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-59 in pdf -
Natural Invariance Explains Empirical Success of Specific Membership Functions, Hedge Operations, and Negation Operations
Julio C. Urenda, Orsolya Csiszar, Gabor Csiszar, Jozsef Dombi, Gyorgy Eigner, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-58 in pdf -
How Mathematics and Computing Can Help Fight the Pandemic: Two Pedagogical Examples
Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-57 in pdf -
Approximate Version of Interval Computation Is Still NP-Hard
Vladik Kreinovich and Olga Kosheleva
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-56 in pdf -
Online Teaching -- Systems Approach: Questions and Answers
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-55 in pdf -
Advice to New Instructors: Systems Approach
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-54 in pdf -
Neural Networks
Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-53 in pdf -
How Expert Knowledge Can Help Measurements: Three Case Studies
Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-52 in pdf -
Formal Concept Analysis Techniques Can Help in Intelligent Control, Deep Learning, etc.
Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-51 in pdf -
Why Most Empirical Distributions Are Few-Modal
Julio C. Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-50 in pdf -
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 Hoang Phuong Nguyen
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-49 in pdf -
Why It Is Sufficient to Have Real-Valued Amplitudes in Quantum Computing
Isaac Bautista, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and Hoang Phuong Nguyen
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-48 in pdf -
Why Some Powers Laws Are Possible And Some Are Not
Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and Hoang Phuong Nguyen
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-47 in pdf -
Optimization under Fuzzy Constraints: Need to Go Beyond Bellman-Zadeh Approach and How It Is Related to Skewed Distributions
Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Hoang Phuong Nguyen
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-46 in pdf -
Absence of Remotely Triggered Large Earthquakes: A Geometric Explanation
Laxman Bokati, Aaron Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-45 in pdf -
How to Efficiently Store Intermediate Results in Quantum Computing: Theoretical Explanation of the Current Algorithm
Oscar Galindo, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-44 in pdf -
Economics of Reciprocity and Temptation
Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Nguyen Ngoc Thach
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-43 in pdf -
Towards Fast and Understandable Computations: Which "And"- and "Or"-Operations Can Be Represented by the Fastest (i.e., 1-Layer) Neural Networks? Which Activations Functions Allow Such Representations?
Kevin Alvarez, Julio C. Urenda, Orsolya Csiszar, Gabor Csiszar, Jozsef Dombi, Gyorgy Eigner, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-42 in pdf -
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
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-41 in pdf -
Reward for Good Performance Works Better Than Punishment for Mistakes: Economic Explanation
Olga Kosheleva, Julio Urenda, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-40 in pdf -
Commonsense Explanations of Sparsity, Zipf Law, and Nash's Bargaining Solution
Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Kittawit Autchariyapanikul
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-39 in pdf -
A Recent Result about Random Metrics Explains Why All of Us Have Similar Learning Potential
Christian Servin, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-38 in pdf -
How to Explain the Anchoring Formula in Behavioral Economics
Laxman Bokati, Vladik Krenovich, and Chon Van Le
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-37 in pdf -
A "Fuzzy" Like Button Can Decrease Echo Chamber Effect
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-36 in pdf -
Why Geometric Progression in Selecting the LASSO Parameter: A Theoretical Explanation
William Kubin, Yi Xie, Laxman Bokati, Vladik Kreinovich, and Kittawit Autchariyapanitkul
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-35 in pdf -
Why There Are Only Four Fundamental Forces: A Possible Explanation
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-34 in pdf -
Scale-Invariance Ideas Explain the Empirical Soil-Water Characteristic Curve
Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-33 in pdf -
Optimal Search under Constraints
Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-32 in pdf -
Equations for Which Newton's Method Never Works: Pedagogical Examples
Leobardo Valera, Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-31 in pdf -
Centroids Beyond Defuzzification
Juan Carlos Figueroa–Garcia, Christian Servin, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-30 in pdf -
Which Algorithms Are Feasible and Which Are Not: Fuzzy Techniques Can Help in Formalizing the Notion of Feasibility
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-29 in pdf -
Is There a Contradiction Between Statistics and Fairness: From Intelligent Control to Explainable AI
Christian Servin and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-28 in pdf -
Why Linear Expressions in Discounting and in Empathy: A Symmetry-Based Explanation
Supanika Leurcharusmee, Laxman Bokati, and Olga Kosheleva
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-27 in pdf -
Why Class-D Audio Amplifiers Work Well: A Theoretical Explanation
Kevin Alvarez, Julio C. Urenda, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-26 in pdf -
Why Black-Scholes Equations Are Effective Beyond Their Usual Assumptions: Symmetry-Based Explanation
Warattaya Chinnakum and Sean R. Aguilar
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-25 in pdf -
Scale-Invariance and Fuzzy Techniques Explain the Empirical Success of Inverse Distance Weighting and of Dual Inverse Distance Weighting in Geosciences
Laxman Bokati, Aaron Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-24 in pdf -
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
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-23 in pdf -
Which Are the Correct Membership Functions? Correct "And"- and "Or"- Operations? Correct Defuzzification Procedure?
Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Shahnaz Shahbazova
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-22 in pdf -
Theoretical Explanation of Recent Empirically Successful Code Quality Metrics
Vladik Kreinovich, Omar A.~Masmali, Hoang Phuong Nguyen, and Omar Badreddin
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-21 in pdf -
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, Hoang Phuong Nguyen, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-20 in pdf -
How to Describe Conditions Like 2-out-of-5 in Fuzzy Logic: a Neural Approach
Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Hoang Phuong Nguyen
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-19 in pdf -
Quantum (and More General) Models of Research Collaboration
Oscar Galindo, Miroslav Svitek, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-18 in pdf -
Towards a Theoretical Explanation of How Pavement Condition Index Deteriorates over Time
Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez and and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-17 in pdf -
New (Simplified) Derivation of Nash's Bargaining Solution
Hoang Phuong Nguyen, Laxman Bokati, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-16 in pdf -
Towards Making Fuzzy Techniques More Adequate for Combining Knowledge of Several Experts
Hoang Phuong Nguyen and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-15 in pdf -
Why Mean, Variance, Moments, Correlation, Skewness etc. – Invariance-Based Explanations
Olga Kosheleva, Laxman Bokati, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-14 in pdf -
How Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Computing Can Make Cyber-Physical Systems More Secure
Deepak Tosh, Oscar Galindo, Vladik Kreinovich, and Olga Kosheleva
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-13 in pdf | UTEP-CS-20-13d in pdf -
Why Squashing Functions in Multi-Layer Neural Networks
Julio C. Urenda, Orsolya Csiszar, Gabor Csiszar, Jozsef Dombi, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Gyorgy Eigner
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-12 in pdf -
Predictably (Boundedly) Rational: Examples of Seemingly Irrational Behavior Can Be Quantitatively Explained by Bounded Rationality
Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-11 in pdf -
How to Gauge the Quality of a Testing Method When Ground Truth Is Known with Uncertainty
Nicolas Gray, Scott Ferson, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-10 in pdf -
Fusion of Probabilistic Knowledge as Foundation for Sliced-Normal Approach
Michael Beer, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-09 in pdf -
Strength of Lime Stabilized Pavement Materials: Possible Theoretical Explanation of Empirical Dependencies
Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-08 in pdf -
Why Ellipsoids in Mechanical Analysis of Wood Structures
F. Niklas Schietzold, Julio Urenda, Vladik Kreinovich, Wolfgang Graf, and Michael Kaliske
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-07 in pdf -
Can We Preserve Physically Meaningful "Macro" Analyticity without Requiring Physically Meaningless "Micro" Analyticity?
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-06 in pdf -
Several Years of Practice May Not Be As Good as Comprehensive Training: Zipf's Law Explains Why
Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-05 in pdf -
A Mystery of Human Biological Development -- Can It Be Used to Speed up Computations?
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-04 in pdf -
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-Munoz
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-03a in pdf -
Physical Randomness Can Help in Computations
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-02 in pdf -
Why Immediate Repetition Is Good for Short-Term Learning Results but Bad For Long-Term Learning: Explanation Based on Decision Theory
Laxman Bokati, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-20-01 in pdf