University of Texas at El Paso
Computer Science Department
List of 2002 Reports

• Why Benchmarking is an (Asymptotically) Optimal Approach to Numerical Methods: A Geombinatoric Proof
  Vladik Kreinovich and Scott A. Starks
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-33 in Compressed PostScript and pdf

• Intelligent Techologies
  (Introduction to the Special Issue)
  Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, Nadipuram S. Prasad, and Pratit Santiprabhob
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-32 in Compressed PostScript and pdf

• Towards Foundations of Processing Imprecise Data: From Traditional Statistical Techniques of Processing Crisp Data to Statistical Processing of Fuzzy Data
  Hung T. Nguyen, Tonghui Wang, and Vladik Kreinovich
  link to abstract
  Original version UTEP-CS-02-31 in Compressed PostScript and pdf;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-02-31a in Compressed PostScript and pdf

• Research on Advanced Soft Computing and its Applications
  (Introduction to the Special Issue)
  Vilem Novak, Irina Perfilieva, Hung T. Nguyen, and Vladik Kreinovich
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-30 in Compressed PostScript and pdf

• Convergence Properties of an Interval Probabilistic Approach to System Reliability Estimation
  Cliff Joslyn and Vladik Kreinovich
  link to abstract
  Original version UTEP-CS-02-29 in Compressed PostScript and pdf
  Updated version UTEP-CS-02-29b in pdf

• A New Cauchy-Based Black-Box Technique for Uncertainty in Risk Analysis
  Vladik Kreinovich and Scott Ferson
  link to abstract
  Original version UTEP-CS-02-28 in Compressed PostScript and pdf;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-02-28a in Compressed PostScript and pdf

• Use of Fuzzy Expert'S Information in Measurement and What We Can Gain from its Application in Geophysics
  Leon Reznik, Vladik Kreinovich and Scott A. Starks
  link to abstract
  Original version UTEP-CS-02-27 in MS Word;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-02-27a in MS Word and pdf

• Eliminating Duplicates under Interval and Fuzzy Uncertainty: An Asymptotically Optimal Algorithm and its Geospatial Applications
  Roberto Torres, G. Randy Keller, Vladik Kreinovich, and Luc Longpre
  link to abstract
  Original version UTEP-CS-02-26 in Compressed PostScript and pdf
  Updated version UTEP-CS-02-26c in Compressed PostScript and pdf

• An IDL/ENVI Implementation of the FFT Based Algorithm for Automatic Image Registration
  Hongjie Xie, Nigel Hicks, G. Randy Keller, Haitao Huang, and Vladik Kreinovich
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-25 in MS Word

• Designing Interdisciplinary Approaches to Problem Solving into Computer Languages
  Daniel E. Cooke, Vladik Kreinovich, Joseph E. Urban
  link to abstract
  Original version UTEP-CS-02-24 in MS Word;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-02-24a in MS Word and in pdf

• Dirty Pages of Logarithm Tables, Lifetime of the Universe, and (Subjective) Probabilities on Finite and Infinite Intervals
  Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, and Luc Longpre
  Short version UTEP-CS-02-23b in Compressed PostScript and pdf
  Original version of the full paper link to abstract
  Original version UTEP-CS-02-23 in Compressed PostScript and pdf
  Updated version of the full paper UTEP-CS-02-23c in Compressed PostScript and pdf

• Exact Upper Bound on the Mean of the Product of Many Random Variables with Known Expectations
  Vladik Kreinovich, Scott Ferson, and Lev Ginzburg
  link to abstract
  Original version UTEP-CS-02-22 in Compressed PostScript and pdf
  1st updated version UTEP-CS-02-22a in Compressed PostScript and pdf
  2nd updated version UTEP-CS-02-22b in Compressed PostScript and pdf

• Interval Computations Related to Privacy in Statistical Databases
  Luc Longpre and Vladik Kreinovich
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-21a in Compressed PostScript and pdf

• Kolmogorov Complexity and Chaotic Phenomena
  Vladik Kreinovich and Isaak A. Kunin
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-20 in Compressed PostScript and pdf

• Why is Selecting the Simplest Hypothesis (Consistent with Data) a Good Idea? A Simple Explanation
  Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre, Scott Ferson, and Lev Ginzburg
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-19 in Compressed PostScript and pdf

• From Computation with Guaranteed Intervals to Computation with Confidence Intervals: A New Application of Fuzzy Techniques
  Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, Scott Ferson, and Lev Ginzburg
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-18 in Compressed PostScript and pdf

• Selecting a Fuzzy Logic Operation from the DNF-CNF Interval: How Practical are the Resulting Operations?
  I. B. Turksen, A. Esper, K. Patel, S. A. Starks, and V. Kreinovich
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-17 in Compressed PostScript and pdf

• Main Ideas Behind OWA Lead to a Universal and Optimal Approximation Scheme
  Ronald R. Yager and Vladik Kreinovich
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-16 in Compressed PostScript and pdf

• Fuzzy Measures and Integrals as Aggregation Operators: Solving the Commensurability Problem
  Francois Modave and Vladik Kreinovich
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-15 in Compressed PostScript and pdf

• Detecting and Locating Curved Cracks in Thin Plates by Lamb Wave Reflection: Validated Geometric Approach
  Roberto Osegueda and Vladik Kreinovich
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-14 in Compressed Postscript and in pdf.

• Computing Variance for Interval Data is NP-Hard
  Scott Ferson, Lev Ginzburg, Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre, and Monica Aviles
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-13b in Compressed Postscript and in pdf

• Exact Bounds on Finite Populations of Interval Data
  Scott Ferson, Lev Ginzburg, Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre, and Monica Aviles
  link to abstract
  Original version UTEP-CS-02-13d in Compressed Postscript and in pdf
  Updated version UTEP-CS-02-13f in Compressed Postscript and in pdf

• Exact Bounds on Sample Variance of Interval Data
  Scott Ferson, Lev Ginzburg, Vladik Kreinovich, and Monica Aviles
  link to abstract
  Full version UTEP-CS-02-13c in Compressed Postscript and in pdf
  Short version UTEP-CS-02-13 in Compressed Postscript and in pdf.

• Absolute Bounds on the Mean of Sum, Product, Max, and Min: A Probabilistic Extension of Interval Arithmetic
  Scott Ferson, Lev Ginzburg, Vladik Kreinovich, and Jorge Lopez
  link to abstract
  Original version UTEP-CS-02-12a in Compressed Postscript and in pdf
  Short version UTEP-CS-02-12 in Compressed Postscript and in pdf;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-02-12b in Compressed Postscript and in pdf

• Are There Easy-To-Check Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Straightforward Interval Computations to Be Exact?
  Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre, and James J. Buckley
  link to abstract
  Original version UTEP-CS-02-11a in Compressed Postscript and in pdf
  Short version UTEP-CS-02-11 in Compressed Postscript and in pdf;
  1st updated version UTEP-CS-02-11b in Compressed Postscript and in pdf;
  2nd updated version UTEP-CS-02-11c in Compressed Postscript and in pdf

• Optimization Techniques under Uncertain Criteria, and Their Possible Use in Computerized Education
  Vladik Kreinovich and Richard Alo
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-10 in Compressed Postscript and in pdf

• Use of Satellite Image Referencing Algorithms to Characterize Asphaltic Concrete Mixtures
  Scott A. Starks, Soheil Nazarian, Vladik Kreinovich, and Joseph Adidhela
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-09 in Compressed Postscript and in pdf

• Computational Complexity of Planning with Discrete Time and Continuous State Variables
  Chitta Baral and Vladik Kreinovich
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-08 in Compressed Postscript and in pdf

• Probability of Implication, Logical Version of Bayes Theorem, and Fuzzy Logic Operations
  Hung T. Nguyen, Masao Mukaidono, and Vladik Kreinovich
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-07 in Compressed Postscript and in pdf

• On Symmetric Solution Sets
  Goetz Alefeld, Vladik Kreinovich, and Guenter Mayer
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-06 in Compressed Postscript and in pdf

• Uncertainty in Risk Analysis: Towards a General Second-Order Approach Combining Interval, Probabilistic, and Fuzzy Techniques
  Scott Ferson, Lev Ginzburg, Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, and Scott A. Starks
  link to abstract
  Original version UTEP-CS-02-05 in Compressed Postscript and in pdf
  Updated version UTEP-CS-02-05a in Compressed Postscript and in pdf

• Non-Destructive Testing of Aerospace Structures: Granularity and Data Mining Approach
  Roberto Osegueda, Vladik Kreinovich, Lakshmi Potluri, and Richard Alo
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-04 in Compressed Postscript and in pdf

• Was There Satan's Face in the World Trade Center Fire? A Geometric Analysis
  Vladik Kreinovich and Dima Iourinski
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-03 in Compressed Postscript and in pdf

• Swarm Intelligence: Theoretical Proof that Empirical Techniques are Optimal
  Dmitriy Iourinskiy, Scott A. Starks, Vladik Kreinovich, and Stephen F. Smith
  link to abstract
  Original version UTEP-CS-02-02 in Compressed Postscript and in pdf
  1st updated version UTEP-CS-02-02a in Compressed Postscript and in pdf
  2nd updated version UTEP-CS-02-02c in Compressed Postscript and in pdf

• Open-Ended Configurations of Radio Telescopes: Geometrical Analysis
  Vladik Kreinovich, Scott A. Starks, Dima Iourinski, Olga Kosheleva, and Andrei Finkelstein
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-01a in Compressed Postscript and in pdf

• Open-Ended Configurations of Radio Telescopes: Towards Optimal Design
  Vladik Kreinovich, Scott A. Starks, Olga Kosheleva, and Andrei Finkelstein
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-02-01 in Compressed Postscript and in pdf