Papers co-authored by current and past TRACS students during their
membership in TRACS:
-- names of current TRACS students marked by *
-- names of past TRACS students marked by **

To appear

  **Ricardo Alvarez, **Yamel Hernandez, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Why Too Much Interaction Between Different Parts of the
  Brain Leads To Unhappiness", In: Martine Ceberio and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under Uncertainty
  and Constraints: A Why-Book", Springer, Cham, Switzerland,
  2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  **David Amparan and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why People Overestimate
  Small Probabilities?", In: Martine Ceberio and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under Uncertainty
  and Constraints: A Why-Book", Springer, Cham, Switzerland,
  2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  *Solymar Ayala Cortez, *Laxman Bokati, Aaron Velasco, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Why Daubechies wavelets are so successful", Journal of
  Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, to appear.
  pdf file

  **Mariana Benitez, Jeffrey Weidner, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "How to Select Typical Objects", In: Martine Ceberio and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under Uncertainty
  and Constraints: A Why-Book", Springer, Cham, Switzerland,
  2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and
  Nguyen Ngoc Thach, "Economics of Reciprocity and Temptation",
  In: Songsak Sriboonchitta, Vladik Kreinovich, Woraphon Yamaka
  (eds.), "Credible Asset Allocation, Optimal Transport Methods,
  and Related Topics", Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2022,
  to appear.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati and Vladik Kreinovich, "Decision Making
  Under Uncertainty, with a Special Emphasis on Geosciences
  and Education", Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2022,
  to appear.

  **Lidice Castro and Vladik Kreinovich, "Is Our World Becoming
  Less Quantum?", In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik
  Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under Uncertainty
  and Constraints: A Why-Book", Springer, Cham, Switzerland,
  2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  *Jonatan Contreras, Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Why neural networks in the first place: a theoretical
  explanation", Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, to appear.
  pdf file

  *Jonatan Contreras, Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva,
  Vladik Kreinovich, and Nguyen Hoang Phuong, "Why Rectified
  Linear Neurons: Two Convexity-Related Explanations", In:
  Nguyen Hoang Phuong and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Biomedical
  and Other Applications of Soft Computing", Springer, Cham,
  Switzerland, 2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  *Jonatan Contreras, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik
  Kreinovich, and Martine Ceberio, " "Negative" Results --
  When the Measured Quantity Is Outside the Sensor's Range --
  Can Help Data Processing", In: Boris Kovalerchuk, Kawa
  Nazemi, Razvan Andonie, and Nuno Datia, and Ebad Banissi
  (eds.), Integrating AI and Visualisation for Visual Knowledge
  Discovery, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  **Daniel Cruz, **Ricardo Godoy, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Why, in Deep Learning, Non-Smooth Activation Function Works
  Better Than Smooth Ones", In: Martine Ceberio and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under Uncertainty
  and Constraints: A Why-Book", Springer, Cham, Switzerland,
  2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  **Daniela Flores, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Why Geological Regions?", In: Martine Ceberio and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under Uncertainty
  and Constraints: A Why-Book", Springer, Cham, Switzerland,
  2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  **Oscar Galindo, **Christopher Ibarra, Vladik Kreinovich, and
  Michael Beer, "Fourier Transform and Other Quadratic Problems
  under Interval Uncertainty", In: Martine Ceberio and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under Uncertainty
  and Constraints: A Why-Book", Springer, Cham, Switzerland,
  2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  **Oscar Galindo, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to
  Efficiently Store Intermediate Results in Quantum Computing:
  Theoretical Explanation of the Current Algorithm", In:
  Songsak Sriboonchitta, Vladik Kreinovich, Woraphon Yamaka
  (eds.), "Credible Asset Allocation, Optimal Transport Methods,
  and Related Topics", Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2022,
  to appear.
  pdf file

  *Sofia Holguin and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Residual Neural
  Networks", In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.),
  "Decision Making under Uncertainty and Constraints: A Why-Book",
  Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  **Toshiki Kamio, **Gavin Baechle, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Decision
  Making Under Uncertainty: Cases When We Only Know an Upper
  Bound or a Lower Bound", In: Martine Ceberio and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under Uncertainty
  and Constraints: A Why-Book", Springer, Cham, Switzerland,
  2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  Olga Kosheleva, Julio Urenda, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Reward
  for Good Performance Works Better Than Punishment for Mistakes:
  Economic Explanation", In: Songsak Sriboonchitta, Vladik
  Kreinovich, Woraphon Yamaka (eds.), "Credible Asset Allocation,
  Optimal Transport Methods, and Related Topics", Springer, Cham,
  Switzerland, 2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  William Kubin, Yi Xie, *Laxman Bokati, Vladik Kreinovich,
  and Kittawit Autchariyapanitkul, "Why Geometric Progression in
  Selecting the LASSO Parameter: A Theoretical Explanation", In:
  Songsak Sriboonchitta, Vladik Kreinovich, Woraphon Yamaka
  (eds.), "Credible Asset Allocation, Optimal Transport Methods,
  and Related Topics", Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2022,
  to appear.
  pdf file

  **Ricardo Mendez, **Osagumwenro Osaretin, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "How to Gauge the Quality of a Multi-Class Classification When
  Ground Truth Is Known with Uncertainty", In: Martine Ceberio
  and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under
  Uncertainty and Constraints: A Why-Book", Springer, Cham,
  Switzerland, 2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  **Leonardo Orea Amador and Vladik Kreinovich, "What Is a
  Reasonable Way to Make Predictions?", In: Oscar Castillo and
  Patricia Melin (eds.), New Perspectives on Hybrid Intelligent
  System Design Based on Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and
  Metaheuristics, Springer, 2023, to appear.
  pdf file

  **Leonardo Orea Amador and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Decimal
  System? Why Communities With More Than 150 Folks Tend to
  Split? New Consequences of the Seven Plus Minus Two Law",
  In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision
  Making under Uncertainty and Constraints: A Why-Book",
  Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  *R. Noah Padilla and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Moments
  (and Generalized Moments) Are Used in Statistics and Why
  Expected Utility Is Used in Decision Making: A Possible
  Explanation", In: Martine Ceberio and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under Uncertainty
  and Constraints: A Why-Book", Springer, Cham, Switzerland,
  2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  **Christopher Reyes and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Do People
  Become Addicted: Towards a Theoretical Explanation for Eyal's
  Experiment-Based Hook Model", In: Martine Ceberio and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under Uncertainty
  and Constraints: A Why-Book", Springer, Cham, Switzerland,
  2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  *Hector Reyes, Dillon Trinh, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Fault
  Detection in a Smart Electric Grid: Geometric Analysis", In:
  Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making
  under Uncertainty and Constraints: A Why-Book", Springer, Cham,
  Switzerland, 2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  *Salvador Robles Herrera, Martine Ceberio, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "When Is Deep Learning Better and When Is
  Shallow Learning Better: Qualitative Analysis",
  International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed
  Systems, to appear.
  pdf file

  *Salvador Robles, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Why Model Order Reduction", In: Martine Ceberio and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under Uncertainty
  and Constraints: A Why-Book", Springer, Cham, Switzerland,
  2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Olga Kosheleva, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Physical Power Laws Usually Have
  Rational Exponents", Proceedings of the 15th International
  Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision Making
  CoProD'2022, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, May 30, 2022,
  to appear.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga
  Kosheleva, and Hoang Phuong Nguyen, "How the Pavement's
  Lifetime Depends on the Stress Level: An Explanation of the
  Empirical Formula", In: Nguyen Hoang Phuong and Vladik
  Kreinovich (eds.), "Biomedical and Other Applications of
  Soft Computing", Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2022,
  to appear.
  pdf file

  **Javier Tellez, **Weibo Xie, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Commonsense 'And'-Operations", In: Martine Ceberio and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under Uncertainty
  and Constraints: A Why-Book", Springer, Cham, Switzerland,
  2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda, *Sean Aguilar, Olga Kosheleva, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "Fuzzy Techniques, Laplace Indeterminacy
  Principle, and Maximum Entropy Approach Explain Lindy Effect
  and Help Avoid Meaningless Infinities in Physics", In:
  Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making
  under Uncertainty and Constraints: A Why-Book", Springer, Cham,
  Switzerland, 2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda, Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Homogeneous Membranes Lead to Optimal
  Water Desalination: A Possible Explanation", In:
  Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision
  Making under Uncertainty and Constraints: A Why-Book", Springer,
  Cham, Switzerland, 2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  *Julio C. Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Dimension Compactification Naturally Follows from First
  Principles", In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.),
  "Decision Making under Uncertainty and Constraints:
  A Why-Book", Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2022, to appear.
  pdf file

  *Julio C. Urenda and Vladik Kreinovich, "Algebraic Approach
  to Data Processing: Techniques and Applications", Springer,
  Cham, Switzerland, to appear.

  *Julio C. Urenda and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Rectified Linear
  Activation Functions? Why Max-Pooling? A Possible Explanation",
  In: Oscar Castillo and Patricia Melin (eds.), New Perspectives
  on Hybrid Intelligent System Design based on Fuzzy Logic,
  Neural Networks and Metaheuristics, Springer, 2023, to appear.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda, Vladik Kreinovich, and Olga Kosheleva, "Need to
  Combine Interval and Probabilistic Uncertainty: What Needs to
  Be Computed, What Can Be Computed, What Can Be Feasibly
  Computed, and How Physics Can Help", In: Ali M. Abbasov,
  Shahnaz N. Shahbazova, Janusz Kacprzyk, and Vladik Kreinovich
  (eds.), Soft Computing: New Directions in Foundations and
  Applications, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, to appear.
  pdf file

  **Joshua Zamora and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Ovals in Eliciting
  Intervals?", In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.),
  "Decision Making under Uncertainty and Constraints:
  A Why-Book", Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2022, to appear.
  pdf file

2022

  **Laura A. Berrout Ramos, Vladik Kreinovich, and Kittawit
  Autchariyapanitkul, "Correcting interval-valued expert
  estimates: empirical formulas explained", In:
  Nguyen Ngoc Thach, Vladik Kreinovich, Doan Thanh Ha, and
  Nguyen Duc Trung (eds.), Financial Econometrics: Bayesian
  Analysis, Quantum Uncertainty, and Related Topics,
  Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2022, pp. 1-7.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How Much
  For a Set: General Case of Decision Making Under Set-Valued
  Uncertainty", In: Julia Rayz, Victor Raskin, Scott Dick, and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Explainable AI and Other Applications
  of Fuzzy Techniques, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the
  North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2021,
  West Lafayette, Indiana, June 7-9, 2021", Springer, Cham,
  Switzerland, 2022, pp. 400-405.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to
  elicit complex-valued fuzzy degrees", Proceedings of the 2022
  Annual Conference of North American Fuzzy Information
  Processing Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada,
  May 31 - June 3, 2022.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Vladik Kreinovich, and Chon Van Le, "How to Explain
  the Anchoring Formula in Behavioral Economics", In: Nguyen Ngoc
  Thach, Doan Thanh Ha, Nguyen Duc Trung, and Vladik Kreinovich
  (eds.), Prediction and Causality in Econometrics and Related Topics,
  Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2022, pp. 28-34.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Vladik Kreinovich, and Doan Thanh Ha, "How the
  Proportion of People Who Agree to Perform a Task Depends on the
  Stimulus: A Theoretical Explanation of the Empirical Formula", In:
  Nguyen Ngoc Thach, Doan Thanh Ha, Nguyen Duc Trung, and Vladik
  Kreinovich (eds.), Prediction and Causality in Econometrics and
  Related Topics, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2022, pp. 22-27.
  pdf file

  Kelly Cohen, *Laxman Bokati, Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Fuzzy Techniques in Explainable AI? Which
  Fuzzy Techniques in Explainable AI?", In: Julia Rayz, Victor Raskin,
  Scott Dick, and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Explainable AI and Other
  Applications of Fuzzy Techniques, Proceedings of the Annual
  Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing
  Society NAFIPS'2021, West Lafayette, Indiana, June 7-9, 2021",
  Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2022, pp. 74-78.
  pdf file

  *Sofia Holguin, Javier Viana, Kelly Cohen, Anca Ralescu, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Sine Membership Functions", Proceedings
  of the 2022 Annual Conference of North American Fuzzy
  Information Processing Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada,
  May 31 - June 3, 2022.
  pdf file

  Vladik Kreinovich, **Kevin Alvarez, and Chon Van Le,
  "Distributions on an interval as a scale-invariant
  combination of scale-invariant functions: theoretical
  explanation of empirical Marchenko-Pastur-type distributions",
  In: Nguyen Ngoc Thach, Vladik Kreinovich, Doan Thanh Ha, and
  Nguyen Duc Trung (eds.), Financial Econometrics: Bayesian
  Analysis, Quantum Uncertainty, and Related Topics, Springer,
  Cham, Switzerland, 2022, pp. 105-109.
  pdf file

  Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and *Laxman Bokati, "How to
  Make Sure That Robot's Behavior Is Human-Like", In: Bin Wei
  (ed.), Brain and Cognitive Intelligence -- Control in Robotics,
  CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 2022, pp. 70-80.
  pdf file

  Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, *Laxman Bokati, and
  *Laura Berrout, "Order Relations Are Ubiquitously Fundamental:
  Alexandrov(-Zeeman) Theorem Extended from Space-Time Physics to
  Logical Reasoning and Decision Making", Mathematical Structures
  and Modeling, 2022, Vol. 62.
  pdf file

  Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and **Andres Ortiz-Munoz,
  "Need for Simplicity and Everything Is a Matter of Degree:
  How Zadeh's Philosophy is Related to Kolmogorov Complexity,
  Quantum Physics, and Deep Learning", In: Ali M. Abbasov,
  Shahnaz N. Shahbazova, Janusz Kacprzyk, and Vladik Kreinovich
  (eds.), Soft Computing: New Directions in Foundations and
  Applications, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, to appear.
  pdf file

  *Salvador Robles, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Computing the Range of a Function-of-Few-Linear-Combinations
  Under Linear Constraints: A Feasible Algorithm", Proceedings
  of the 15th International Workshop on Constraint Programming
  and Decision Making CoProD'2022, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada,
  May 30, 2022.
  pdf file

  *Julio C. Urenda and Olga Kosheleva, "Randomized tax deadlines
  can help economy", Asian Journal of Economics and Banking (AJEB).
  pdf file

  *Julio C. Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Most
  Empirical Distributions Are Few-Modal", In: Nguyen Ngoc Thach,
  Doan Thanh Ha, Nguyen Duc Trung, and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.),
  Prediction and Causality in Econometrics and Related Topics,
  Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2022, pp. 89-96.
  pdf file

  *Julio C. Urenda, Christian Servin, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Mexican Folk Arithmetic Algorithm Makes Perfect Sense",
  In: Julia Rayz, Victor Raskin, Scott Dick, and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.),
  "Explainable AI and Other Applications of Fuzzy Techniques, Proceedings
  of the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information
  Processing Society NAFIPS'2021, West Lafayette, Indiana, June 7-9, 2021",
  Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2022, pp. 453-460.
  pdf file

  Piotr Wojciechowski, Grega Cigler, Vladik Kreinovich, and
  *Julio Urenda, "A feasible algorithm for solubility of
  transitive graphs", Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal
  Irish Academy, 2022, Vol. 122A, pp. 27-32.

2021

  **Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich, "A Natural
  Explanation for the Minimum Entropy Production Principle", In:
  Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), How
  Uncertainty-Related Ideas Can Provide Theoretical Explanation for
  Empirical Dependencies, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2021, pp. 7-14.
  pdf file

  **Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Status Quo
  Bias Actually Helps Decision Makers to Take Nonlinearity into
  Account: An Explanation", In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik
  Kreinovich (eds.), How Uncertainty-Related Ideas Can Provide
  Theoretical Explanation for Empirical Dependencies, Springer,
  Cham, Switzerland, 2021, pp. 1-5.
  pdf file

  *Sean R. Aguilar and Olga Kosheleva, "What Is Wrong with
  Micromanagement: Economic View", Asian Journal of Economics and
  Banking (AJEB), 2021.
  pdf file

  *Sean R. Aguilar and Olga Kosheleva, "When to Stop Computing and
  Start Investing", Asian Journal of Economics and Banking (AJEB),
  2021.
  pdf file

  *Sean R. Aguilar, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why
  Base-20, Base-40, and Base-60 Number Systems?", Proceedings of the
  14th International Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision
  Making CoProd'2021, Szeged, Hungary, September 12, 2021.
  pdf file

  *Sean R. Aguilar, Vladik Kreinovich, and Uyen Pham, "Why Quadratic
  Log-Log Dependence Is Ubiquitous And What Next", Asian Journal of
  Economics and Banking (AJEB), 2021, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 25-31.
  pdf file

  **Kevin Alvarez, *Julio C. Urenda, Orsolya Csiszar, Gabor Csiszar,
  Jozsef Dombi, Gyorgy Eigner, and Vladik Kreinovich, "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?", Acta
  Polytechnica Hungarica, 2021, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 27-45.
  pdf file

  **Kevin Alvarez, *Julio C. Urenda, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why
  Class-D Audio Amplifiers Work Well: A Theoretical Explanation",
  In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), How
  Uncertainty-Related Ideas Can Provide Theoretical Explanation for
  Empirical Dependencies, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2021,
  pp. 15-20.
  pdf file

  **Isaac Bautista, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and Hoang Phuong
  Nguyen, "Why It Is Sufficient to Have Real-Valued Amplitudes in
  Quantum Computing", In: Nguyen Hoang Phuong and Vladik Kreinovich
  (eds.), Soft Computing: Biomedical and Related Applications,
  Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2021, pp. 131-136.
  pdf file

  **Laura A. Berrout Ramos, "Interval Estimates: How to Make
  Them More Adequate And How To Use Them in Economic Analysis and
  Decision Making", Master's Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso,
  2021.
  file in pdf

  *Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How Can We
  Explain Different Number Systems?", In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik
  Kreinovich (eds.), How Uncertainty-Related Ideas Can Provide
  Theoretical Explanation for Empirical Dependencies, Springer,
  Cham, Switzerland, 2021, pp. 21-26.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why
  Significant Wave Height And Rogue Waves Are So Defined: A Possible
  Explanation", Mathematical Structures and Modeling, 2021, Vol. 57,
  pp. 96-100.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Vladik Kreinovich, and Jordan Katz, "Why 7 Plus
  Minus 2? A Possible Geometric Explanation", Geombinatorics, 2021,
  Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 109-112.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Why Do We Need Two Doses of Covid-19 Vaccine: A Qualitative
  Explanation", Applied Mathematical Sciences, 2021, Vol. 15, No. 3,
  pp. 131-136.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Why Immediate Repetition Is Good for Short-Term Learning Results
  but Bad For Long-Term Learning: Explanation Based on Decision
  Theory", In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), How
  Uncertainty-Related Ideas Can Provide Theoretical Explanation for
  Empirical Dependencies, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2021,
  pp. 27-35.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Aaron Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Absence of
  Remotely Triggered Large Earthquakes: A Geometric Explanation",
  In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), How
  Uncertainty-Related Ideas Can Provide Theoretical Explanation for
  Empirical Dependencies, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2021,
  pp. 37-41.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Aaron Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Gamma
  Distribution of Seismic Inter-Event Times: A Theoretical
  Explanation", In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.),
  How Uncertainty-Related Ideas Can Provide Theoretical Explanation
  for Empirical Dependencies, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2021,
  pp. 43-50.
  pdf file

  Warattaya Chinnakum, **Laura Berrout Ramos, **Olugbenga Iyiola, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "Decision Making Under Interval Uncertainty:
  Towards (Somewhat) More Convincing Justifications for
  Hurwicz Optimism-Pessimism Approach", Asian Journal of Economics
  and Banking (AJEB), 2021, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 32-45.
  pdf file

  *Jonatan Contreras, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why
  Dilated Convolutional Neural Networks: A Proof of Their Optimality",
  Entropy, 2021, Vol. 23, Paper 767.
  pdf file

  Jose Manuel Dominguez Esquivel, *Solymar Ayala Cortez, Aaron
  Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to Monitor Possible Side
  Effects of Enhanced Oil Recovery Process", In: Shahnaz N.
  Shahbazova, Janusz Kacprzyk, Valentina Emilia Balas, and Vladik
  Kreinovich (eds.), "Recent Developments and the New Direction in
  Soft-Computing Foundations and Applications: Selected Papers from
  the World Conference on Soft Computing, Baku, Azerbaijan,
  May 29-31, 2018", Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2021, pp. 521-527.
  pdf file

  **Jose Guadalupe Flores Muniz, Nataliya Kalashnikova, Vyacheslav
  Kalashnnikov, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Public Interest and Private
  Enterprize -- New Developments: Theoretical Results and Numerical
  Algorithms", Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2021.

  Olga Kosheleva and *Sean R. Aguilar, "Is It Fair That Advanced
  Workers Get Paid Disproportionally More: Economic Analysis",
  Asian Journal of Economics and Banking (AJEB), 2021.
  pdf file

  Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and *Jonatan Contreras, "Which
  Classes of Bi-Intervals Are Closed Under Addition? Under Linear
  Combination? Under Other Operations?", Reliable Computing, 2021,
  Vol. 28, pp. 24-35.
  pdf file

  Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and *Laxman Bokati, "We Need
  Fuzzy Techniques to Design Successful Human-Like Robots", In:
  Cengiz Kahraman and Eda Bolturk (Eds.), Toward Humanoid Robots:
  The Role of Fuzzy Sets, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2021,
  pp. 121-131.
  pdf file

  Vladik Kreinovich and *Julio C. Urenda, "Computing Without
  Computing: DNA Version", In: Evgeny Katz (ed.), DNA- and RNA-Based
  Computing Systems, Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2021, pp. 213-230.
  pdf file

  Supanika Leurcharusmee, *Laxman Bokati, and Olga Kosheleva, "Why
  Linear Expressions in Discounting and in Empathy: A Symmetry-Based
  Explanation", Soft Computing, 2021, Vol. 25, No. 12, pp. 7753-7760.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez and Vladik Kreinovich, "How Void
  Ratio Depends on Grain Size In Soil Mechanics: Theoretical
  Explanation", Applied Mathematical Sciences, 2021, Vol. 15, No. 4,
  pp. 153-158.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velazquez and Vladik Kreinovich, "Strength
  of Lime Stabilized Pavement Materials: Possible Theoretical
  Explanation of Empirical Dependencies", In: Martine Ceberio and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), How Uncertainty-Related Ideas Can Provide
  Theoretical Explanation for Empirical Dependencies, Springer, Cham,
  Switzerland, 2021, pp. 115-119.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velazquez and Vladik Kreinovich, "Towards a
  Theoretical Explanation of How Pavement Condition Index Deteriorates
  over Time", In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), How
  Uncertainty-Related Ideas Can Provide Theoretical Explanation for
  Empirical Dependencies, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2021,
  pp. 121-127.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez and Vladik Kreinovich, "What Is
  the True Formula for Soil Permeability? Not Clear", Applied
  Mathematical Sciences, 2021, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 159-163.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Vladik Kreinovich, and Olga
  Kosheleva, "Invariance-Based Approach: General Methods and Pavement
  Engineering Case Study", International Journal of General Systems,
  2021, Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 672-702.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva,
  and Hoang Phuong Nguyen, "How to Estimate the Stiffness of the
  Multi-Layer Road Based on Properties of Layers: Symmetry-Based
  Explanation for Odemark's Equation", In: Nguyen Hoang Phuong and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), Soft Computing: Biomedical and Related
  Applications, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2021, pp. 219-225.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga
  Kosheleva, and Hoang Phuong Nguyen, "Why Some Power Laws Are
  Possible And Some Are Not", In: Nguyen Hoang Phuong and Vladik
  Kreinovich (eds.), Soft Computing: Biomedical and Related
  Applications, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2021, pp. 213-218.
  pdf file

  F. Niklas Schietzold, *Julio Urenda, Vladik Kreinovich, Wolfgang
  Graf, and Michael Kaliske, "Why Ellipsoids in Mechanical Analysis
  of Wood Structures", Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop
  on Reliable Engineering Computing REC'2021, Taormina, Italy,
  May 16-20, 2021, pp. 604-614.
  pdf file

  Nguyen Ngoc Thach, **Laura Berrout, and Olga Kosheleva, "How
  Effective Are We: Towards a More Convincing Stochastic Frontier
  Analysis", Soft Computing, 2021, Vol. 25, No. 12, pp. 7991-7996.
  pdf file

  Nguyen Ngoc Thach, **Ali Morovatdar, Reza S. Ashtiani, and Olga
  Kosheleva, "Impact of Super Heavy Load Vehicles on Transportation
  Infrastructure: Economic Aspects", Soft Computing, Vol. 25, No. 12,
  pp. 8003-8006.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda, Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Why Homogeneous Membranes Lead to Optimal Water
  Desalination: A Possible Explanation", Proceedings of the 14th
  International Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision
  Making CoProd'2021, Szeged, Hungary, September 12, 2021.
  pdf file

  *Julio C. Urenda, Orsolya Csiszar, Gabor Csiszar, Jozsef Dombi,
  Gyorgy Eigner, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Kappa
  Regression?", Joint Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of the
  International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA), the 12th Conference
  of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT),
  and the 11th International Summer School on Aggregation Operators
  (AGOP), Bratislava, Slovakia, September 19-24, 2021, Atlantis Press,
  Dordrecht, the Netherlands, pp. 478-485.
  pdf file

  *Julio C. Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Dimension
  Compactification Naturally Follows from First Principles",
  Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Constraint
  Programming and Decision Making CoProd'2021, Szeged, Hungary,
  September 12, 2021.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich, "Finitely
  Generated Sets of Fuzzy Values: If 'And' Is Exact, Then `'Or' Is
  Almost Always Approximate And Vice Versa'', In: Martine Ceberio and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), How Uncertainty-Related Ideas Can Provide
  Theoretical Explanation for Empirical Dependencies, Springer,
  Cham, Switzerland, 2021, pp. 133-140.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich, "Fuzzy Logic
  Explains the Usual Choice of Logical Operations in 2-Valued
  Logic", In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), How
  Uncertainty-Related Ideas Can Provide Theoretical Explanation for
  Empirical Dependencies, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2021,
  pp. 141-151.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Geometric
  Explanation for an Empirical Formula Describing Our Galaxy's
  Warping', Geombinatorics, 2021, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 208-213.
  pdf file

  *Julio C. Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to
  Describe Measurement Errors: A Natural Generalization of the
  Central Limit Theorem Beyond Normal (and Other Infinitely
  Divisible) Distributions", In: Franco Pavese, Alistair B. Forbes,
  Nien Fan Zhang, and Anna G. Chunovkina (eds.), Advanced Mathematical
  and Computational Tools in Metrology and Testing XII, World
  Scientific, Singapore, 2021, pp. 418-428.
  pdf file

  *Julio C. Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "So How
  Were the Tents of Israel Placed? A Bible-Inspired Geometric
  Problem", International Mathematical Forum, 2021, Vol. 16, No. 1,
  pp. 11-18.
  pdf file

  *Julio C. Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Tents of
  Israel Revisited: Audio Privacy", International Mathematical Forum,
  2021, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 29-33.
  pdf file

2020

  **Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Confirmation
  Bias in Systems Engineering: A Pedagogical Example", Mathematical
  Structures and Modeling, 2020, Vol. 53, pp. 144-148.
  pdf file

  **Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to Explain
  That Changes in Elderlies Depression Level Are Uniformly
  Distributed", Mathematical Structures and Modeling, 2020, Vol. 53,
  pp. 104-107.
  pdf file

  **Griselda Valdepenas Acosta, Eric D. Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Towards Analytical Techniques for Systems Engineering Applications",
  Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2020.

  **Mahdokht Afravi and Vladik Kreinovich, "Fuzzy Systems Are Universal
  Approximators for Random Dependencies: A Simplified Proof", in:
  Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under
  Constraints", Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2020, pp. 1-5.
  pdf file

  **Sean Aguilar and Vladik Kreinovich, "Should Fighting Corruption
  Always Be One of the Main Pre-Requisites for Economic Help?",
  International Mathematical Forum, 2020, Vol. 5, No. 8, pp. 407-415.
  pdf file

  **Kevin Alvarez and Vladik Kreinovich, "How Can Econometrics Help
  Fight the COVID'19 Pandemic?", Asian Journal of Economics and
  Banking (AJEB), 2020, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 29-36.
  pdf file

  **Ricardo Alvarez, **Nick Sims, Christian Servin, Martine Ceberio, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "How to Reconcile Randomness with Physicists'
  Belief that Every Theory Is Approximate: Informal Knowledge Is
  Needed", Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North
  American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2020, Redmond,
  Washington, August 20-22, 2020, pp. 373-378.
  pdf file

  **Ricardo Alvarez, **Nick Sims, Christian Servin, Martine Ceberio, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "If Space-Time Is Discrete, It Could Be Possible
  to Solve NP-Complete Problems in Polynomial Time", International
  Journal of Unconventional Computing, 2020, Vol. 15, No. 3,
  pp. 193-218.
  pdf file

  **Christian Ayub, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How
  Quantum Computing Can Help With (Continuous) Optimization", In:
  Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under
  Constraints", Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2020, pp. 7-14.
  pdf file

  Michael Beer, *Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Which Distributions (or Families of Distributions) Best Represent
  Interval Uncertainty: Case of Permutation-Invariant Criteria", In:
  Marie-Jeanne Lesot, Susana Vieira, Marek Z. Reformat,
  Joao Paulo Carvalho, Anna Wilbik, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, and
  Ronald R. Yager (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International
  Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty
  in Knowledge-Based Systems IPMU'2020, Lisbon, Portugal,
  June 15-19, 2020, pp. 70-79.
  pdf file

  Michael Beer, *Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Why Spiking Neural Networks Are Efficient: A Theorem", In:
  Marie-Jeanne Lesot, Susana Vieira, Marek Z. Reformat,
  Joao Paulo Carvalho, Anna Wilbik, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, and
  Ronald R. Yager (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International
  Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty
  in Knowledge-Based Systems IPMU'2020, Lisbon, Portugal,
  June 15-19, 2020, pp. 59-69.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "It Is
  Important to Take All Available Information into Account When
  Making a Decision: Case of the Two Envelopes Problem", Proceedings
  of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Decision Science
  IDS'2020, Istanbul, Turkey, August 7-8, 2020.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Predictably
  (Boundedly) Rational: Examples of Seemingly Irrational Behavior Can
  Be Quantitatively Explained by Bounded Rationality", Asian Journal
  of Economics and Banking, 2020, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 20-48.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "The
  Similarity Between Earth's and Mars's Core-Mantle Boundary Seems to
  Be Statistically Significant", Applied Mathematical Sciences, 2020,
  Vol. 14, No. 15, pp. 711-715.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why 3D
  Fragmentation Usually Leads to Cuboids: A Simple Geometric
  Explanation", International Mathematical Forum, 2020, Vol. 15,
  No. 6, pp. 277-281.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Anibal Sosa,
  "Why Deep Learning Is More Efficient than Support Vector Machines,
  and How It Is Related to Sparsity Techniques in Signal Processing",
  Proceedings of the 2020 4th International Conference on Intelligent
  Systems, Metaheuristics & Swarm Intelligence ISMSI'2020, Thimpu,
  Bhutan, April 18-19, 2020.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Hoang Phuong Nguyen, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "How to Combine (Dis)Utilities of Different Aspects
  into a Single (Dis)Utility Value, and How This Is Related to
  Geometric Images of Happiness", Journal of Advanced Computational
  Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII), 2020, Vol. 24,
  No. 5, pp. 599-603.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Aaron 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", Proceedings of the Annual Conference of
  the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2020,
  Redmond, Washington, August 20-22, 2020, pp. 379-390.
  pdf file

  Warattaya Chinnakum and *Sean R. Aguilar, "Why Black-Scholes
  Equations Are Effective Beyond Their Usual Assumptions:
  Symmetry-Based Explanation", International Journal of Uncertainty,
  Fuzziness, and Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020, Vol. 28,
  Supplement 1, pp. 1-10.
  pdf file

  *Jonatan Contreras, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik
  Kreinovich, and Martine Ceberio, "Let Us Use Negative Examples in
  Regression-Type Problems Too", Proceedings of the 24th
  International Conference on Information Visualisation IV'2020,
  Vienna and Melbourne, September 7-11, 2020, pp. 296-300.
  pdf file

  *Jonatan Contreras, Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Why Gradient Descent -- Not the Best Optimization
  Technique -- Works Best in Neural Networks: Qualitative Explanation",
  Journal of Combinatorics, Information, and System Sciences JCISS,
  2021, Vol. 45, No. 1-4, pp. 1-10.
  pdf file

  **Jose Guadalupe Flores Muniz, "Bilevel Programming and Conjectural
  Equilibria: Theoretical Results and Numerical Algorithms", PhD
  Dissertation, Mathematics Program, University of Nuevo Leon,
  Mexico, 2020
  file in pdf

  Olac Fuentes, **Justin Parra, Elizabeth Anthony, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Why Rectified Linear Neurons Are Efficient: A
  Possible Theoretical Explanation", In: Olga Kosheleva, Sergey
  Shary, Gang Xiang, and Roman Zapatrin (eds.), Beyond Traditional
  Probabilistic Data Processing Techniques: Interval, Fuzzy, etc.
  Methods and Their Applications, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2020,
  pp. 603-613.
  pdf file

  **Oscar Galindo, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why
  Majority Rule Does Not Work in Quantum Computing: A Pedagogical
  Explanation", In: Lourdes Martinez-Villasenor,
  Oscar Herrera-Alcantara, Hiram Ponce, and Felix A. Castro-Espinoza
  (eds.), Advances in Soft Computing. Proceedings of the 19th Mexican
  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence MICAI'2020,
  Mexico City, Mexico, October 12-17, 2020, Springer Lecture Notes
  in Computer Science, Vol. 12468, pp. 396-401.
  pdf file

  **Oscar Galindo and Vladik Kreinovich, "What Is the Optimal Annealing
  Schedule in Quantum Annealing", Proceedings of the IEEE Series of
  Symposia on Computational Intelligence SSCI'2020, Canberra,
  Australia, December 1-4, 2020.
  pdf file

  **Oscar Galindo, Miroslav Svitek, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Quantum
  (and More General) Models of Research Collaboration", Asian
  Journal of Economics and Banking, 2020, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 77-86.
  pdf file

  **Angel F. Garcia Contreras, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Plans Are Worthless but Planning Is Everything: A Theoretical
  Explanation of Eisenhower's Observation", In: Martine Ceberio and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under Constraints",
  Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2020, pp. 93-98.
  pdf file

  **Angel F. Garcia Contreras, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Why Convex Optimization Is Ubiquitous and Why Pessimism Is Widely
  Spread", In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.),
  "Decision Making under Constraints", Springer Verlag, Cham,
  Switzerland, 2020, pp. 99-104.
  pdf file

  Olga Kosheleva, *Laxman Bokati, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Mean,
  Variance, Moments, Correlation, Skewness etc. -- Invariance-Based
  Explanations", Asian Journal of Economics and Banking, 2020, Vol. 4,
  No. 2, pp. 61-76.
  pdf file

  Vladik Kreinovich, **Omar A. Masmali, Hoang Phuong Nguyen, and Omar
  Badreddin, "Theoretical Explanation of Recent Empirically
  Successful Code Quality Metrics", Journal of Advanced Computational
  Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII), 2020, Vol. 24,
  No. 5, pp. 604-608.
  pdf file

  Bartlomiej Jacek Kubica, *Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Softmax and McFadden's Discrete Choice under Interval
  (and Other) Uncertainty", In: Roman Wyrzykowski, Ewa Deelman, Jack
  Dongarra, and Konrad Karczewski (eds.), Proceedings of the
  International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied
  Mathematics PPAM'2019, Bialystok, Poland, September 8-11, 2019,
  Springer, 2020, Vol. II, pp. 364-373.
  pdf file

  Hoang Phuong Nguyen, *Laxman Bokati, and Vladik Kreinovich, "New
  (Simplified) Derivation of Nash's Bargaining Solution", Journal of
  Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics
  (JACIII), 2020, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 589-592.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "How the Amount of Cracks and Potholes Grows with Time:
  Symmetry-Based Explanation of Empirical Dependencies", Proceedings
  of the International Conference on Smart Sustainable Materials and
  Technologies ICSSMT'2020, Madurai, India, August 12-13, 2020,
  American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conference Proceedings, 2020, Vol. 2297,
  Paper 020034.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "How to Decide Which Cracks Should be Repaired First:
  Theoretical Explanation of Empirical Formulas", In:
  Lourdes Martinez-Villasenor, Oscar Herrera-Alcantara, Hiram Ponce,
  and Felix A. Castro-Espinoza (eds.), Advances in Soft Computing.
  Proceedings of the 19th Mexican International Conference on
  Artificial Intelligence MICAI'2020, Mexico City, Mexico,
  October 12-17, 2020, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
  Vol. 12468, pp. 402-410.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Common-Sense-Based Theoretical Explanation for an Empirical
  Formula Estimating Road Quality", International Mathematical Forum,
  2020, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 207-210.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Scale-Invariance Ideas Explain the Empirical Soil-Water
  Characteristic Curve", Proceedings of the IEEE Series of Symposia
  on Computational Intelligence SSCI'2020, Canberra, Australia,
  December 1-4, 2020.
  pdf file

  Deepak Tosh, **Oscar Galindo, Vladik Kreinovich, and Olga Kosheleva,
  "How Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Computing Can Make
  Cyber-Physical Systems More Secure", Proceedings of the System of
  Systems Engineering Conference SoSE'2020, Budapest, Hungary,
  June 2-4, 2020, pp. 313-320.
  pdf file

  *Julio C. Urenda, Orsolya Csiszar, Gabor Csiszar, Jozsef Dombi,
  Gyorgy Eigner, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Natural Invariance Explains
  Empirical Success of Specific Membership Functions, Hedge
  Operations, and Negation Operations", Proceedings of the Annual
  Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing
  Society NAFIPS'2020, Redmond, Washington, August 20-22, 2020,
  pp. 443-456.
  pdf file

  *Julio C. Urenda, Orsolya Csiszar, Gabor Csiszar, Jozsef Dombi,
  Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Gyorgy Eigner, "Why
  Squashing Functions in Multi-Layer Neural Networks", Proceedings of
  the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and
  Cybernetics SMC'2020, Toronto, Canada, October 11-14, 2020,
  pp. 296-300.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda, Manuel Hernandez, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "How User Ratings Change with Time: Theoretical
  Explanation of an Empirical Formula", Proceedings of the Annual
  Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing
  Society NAFIPS'2020, Redmond, Washington, August 20-22, 2020,
  pp. 427-432.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "How Mathematics and Computing Can Help Fight the
  Pandemic: Two Pedagogical Examples", Proceedings of the Annual
  Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing
  Society NAFIPS'2020, Redmond, Washington, August 20-22, 2020,
  pp. 439-442.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Two Runners
  in the Time of Social Distancing, Speedboats in the Gulf of
  Finland: How to Best Pass?", International Mathematical Forum,
  2020, Vol. 15, No. 7, pp. 317-323.
  pdf file

  *Julio C. Urenda, Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Number
  of Color Difference Works Better In Detecting Melanoma Than Number
  of Colors: A Possible Fractal-Based Explanation", Applied
  Mathematical Sciences, 2020, Vol. 14, No. 17, pp. 811-815.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Tonghui Wang,
  "COVID-19 Peak Immunity Values Seem to Follow Lognormal
  Distribution", Applied Mathematical Sciences, 2020, Vol. 14, No. 12,
  pp. 599-606.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why a Classification Based on
  Linear Approximation to Dynamical Systems Often Works Well in
  Nonlinear Cases", Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North
  American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2020, Redmond,
  Washington, August 20-22, 2020, pp. 433-437.
  pdf file

  **Leobardo Valera, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why
  Burgers Equation: Symmetry-Based Approach", In: Martine Ceberio and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), "Decision Making under Constraints",
  Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2020, pp. 211-216.
  pdf file

2019

  **Griselda Valdepenas Acosta, "Towards Analytical Techniques for
  Systems Engineering Applications", PhD Dissertation, University of
  Texas at El Paso, 2019.
  file in pdf

  **Griselda Acosta, **Manuel Hernandez, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Eric
  Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Matrix Factorization Works Well
  in Recommender Systems: A Systems-Based Explanation", Journal of
  Uncertain Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 164-167.
  pdf file

  **Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Dunning-Kruger
  Effect: A Simple System-Based Explanation", Mathematical Structures
  and Modeling, 2019, Vol. 52, pp. 27-32.
  pdf file

  **Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Epicycles Are Almost as Good as Trigonometric Series: General
  System-Based Analysis", Applied Mathematical Sciences, 2019,
  Vol. 13, No. 16, pp. 769-773.
  pdf file

  **Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Optimal
  distribution of testing resources between different system levels",
  Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 84-88.
  pdf file

  **Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich, "A simple
  quantitative model of cognitive tradeoff phenomenon", Journal of
  Uncertain Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 89-93.
  pdf file

  **Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Unexpected
  Empirical Dependence of Calf Gender on Insemination Time:
  System-Based Explanation", Applied Mathematical Sciences, 2019,
  Vol. 13, No. 14, pp. 681-684.
  pdf file

  **Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Area Under
  the Curve in Hypothesis Testing?", International Mathematical Forum,
  2019, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 209-213.
  pdf file

  **Griselda Acosta, Eric Freudenthal, Eric Smith, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Why Filtering Out Higher Harmonics Makes It Easier to
  Carry a Tune", Applied Mathematical Sciences, 2019, Vol. 13,
  No. 16, pp. 775-779.
  pdf file

  **Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Patients
  Do Not Always Follow Doctor's Advice: Systems Approach Explains
  Empirical Observation", Mathematical Structures and Modeling, 2019,
  Vol. 51, pp. 105-108.
  pdf file

  **Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Pink
  Noise Is Best for Enhancing Sleep and Memory: System-Based
  Explanation", Applied Mathematical Sciences, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 14,
  pp. 677-680.
  pdf file

  **Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich, "80/20 Rule
  Partially Explains 7 Plus Minus 2 Law: General System-Based
  Analysis", International Mathematical Forum, 2019, Vol. 14, No. 5,
  pp. 205-208.
  pdf file

  **Griselda Acosta, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why IQ Test
  Scores Are Slightly Decreasing: Possible System-Based Explanation
  for the Reversed Flynn Effect", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2019,
  Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 176-179.
  pdf file

  **Diego Aguirre, **Philip Hassoun, **Rafael Lopez, **Crystal Serrano,
  **Marcoantonio R. Soto, **Andrea Torres, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Smaller Standard Deviation for Initial Weights Improves
  Performance of Classifying Neural Networks: A Theoretical
  Explanation of Unexpected Simulation Results", Journal of Uncertain
  Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 168-171.
  pdf file

  **Bibek Aryal, *Laxman Bokati, **Karla Godinez, **Shammir Ibarra, **Heyi
  Liu, **Bofei Wang, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Common Sense Addition
  Explained by Hurwicz Optimism-Pessimism Criterion", Journal of
  Uncertain Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 172-175.
  pdf file

  **Nancy Avila, "Computer-Aided Classification of Impulse
  Oscillometric Measures of Respiratory Small Airways Function in
  Children", PhD Dissertation, University of Texas at El Paso, 2019
  file in pdf

  **Christian Ayub, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How
  Quantum Computing Can Help With (Continuous) Optimization",
  Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Constraint
  Programming and Decision Making CoProd'2019, Part of the World
  Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association and the
  Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information
  Processing Society IFSA/NAFIPS'2019, Lafayette, Louisiana, June 17,
  2019.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, "Decision Making under Uncertainty, with
  Applications to Geosciences and Finance", Master's Thesis,
  University of Texas at El Paso, 2019.
  file in pdf

  *Laxman Bokati, **Richard Alfaro, Aaron Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Dynamic Triggering of Earthquakes: Symmetry-Based Geometric
  Analysis", Geombinatorics, 2019, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 78-88.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Vyacheslav V. Kalashnikov, Nataliya Kalashnykova,
  Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to Assign Grades to
  Tasks so as to Maximize Student Efforts", Russian Digital Libraries
  Journal, 2019, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 773-779.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to
  generate 'nice' cubic polynomials -- with rational coefficients,
  rational zeros and rational extrema: a fast algorithm, Journal of
  Uncertain Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 94-99.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "When
  Revolutions Succeed? 80/20 Rule and 7 Plus Minus 2 Law Explain the
  3.5% Rule", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 3,
  pp. 186-188.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati and Vladik Kreinovich, "Decision theory can explain
  why buying and selling prices are different", Journal of Uncertain
  Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 189-192.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati and Vladik Kreinovich, "Decision theory explains
  'Telescoping Effect' -- that our time perception is biased",
  Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 100-103.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati and Vladik Kreinovich, "Is 'No Trade Theorem'
  Really a Paradox: Analysis Based on Decision Theory", Applied
  Mathematical Sciences, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 8, pp. 397-404.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati and Vladik Kreinovich, "Maximum Entropy Approach to
  Portfolio Optimization: Economic Justification of an Intuitive
  Diversity Idea", Asian Journal of Economics and Banking, 2019,
  Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 17-28.
  pdf file

  **Srialekya Edupalli and Vladik Kreinovich, "Decision making under
  general set uncertainty: additivity approach", Journal of Uncertain
  Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 104-108.
  pdf file

  **Ahnaf Farhan, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Max and
  Average Poolings are Optimal in Convolutional Neural Networks",
  In: Hirosato Seki, Canh Hao Nguyen, Van-Nam Huynh, and Masahiro
  Inuiguchi (eds.), USB Proceedings of the 7th International
  Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and
  Decision Making IUKM'2019, Nara, Japan, March 27-29, 2019,
  pp. 1-10.
  pdf file

  **Oscar Galindo, **Christian Ayub, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Faster Quantum Alternative to Softmax Selection in
  Deep Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning", Proceedings of the
  2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence SSCI'2019,
  Xiamen, China, December 6-9, 2019, pp. 814-817.
  pdf file

  **Oscar Galindo, *Laxman Bokati, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Towards a
  More Efficient Representation of Functions in Quantum and
  Reversible Computing", Proceedings of the Joint 11th Conference of
  the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology EUSFLAT'2019
  and International Quantum Systems Association (IQSA) Workshop on
  Quantum Structures, Prague, Czech Republic, September 9-13, 2019.
  pdf file

  **Oscar Galindo, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "High
  concentrations naturally lead to fuzzy-type interactions and to
  gravitational wave bursts", Proceedings of the IEEE International
  Conference on Fuzzy Systems FUZZ-IEEE'2019, New Orleans, Louisiana,
  June 23-26, 2019, pp. 790-794.
  pdf file

  **Oscar Galindo, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Towards
  Parallel Quantum Computing: Standard Quantum Teleportation
  Algorithm Is, in Some Reasonable Sense, Unique", In: Hirosato Seki,
  Canh Hao Nguyen, Van-Nam Huynh, and Masahiro Inuiguchi (eds.), USB
  Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Integrated
  Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making IUKM'2019,
  Nara, Japan, March 27-29, 2019, pp. 23-34.
  pdf file

  **Oscar Galindo and Vladik Kreinovich, "For Quantum and Reversible
  Computing, Intervals Are More Appropriate Than General Sets, And
  Fuzzy Numbers Than General Fuzzy Sets", Proceedings of the Joint
  11th Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and
  Technology EUSFLAT'2019 and International Quantum Systems
  Association (IQSA) Workshop on Quantum Structures, Prague, Czech
  Republic, September 9-13, 2019.
  pdf file

  **Angel Garcia Contreras, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Scale Invariance Explains Quadratic Damping: Case of Insect Wings
  Flapping", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 3,
  pp. 193-196.
  pdf file

  **Afshin Gholamy, "Backcalculation of Intelligent Compaction Data
  for the Mechanical Properties of Soil Geophysics", PhD Dissertation,
  University of Texas at El Paso, 2018.
  file in pdf

  **Afshin Gholamy, **Justin Parra, Vladik Kreinovich, Olac Fuentes, and
  Elizabeth Anthony, "How to Best Apply Deep Neural Networks in
  Geosciences: Towards Optimal 'Averaging' in Dropout Training", In:
  Junzo Watada, Shing Chieng Tan, Pandian Vasant, Eswaran
  Padmanabhan, and Lakhmi C. Jain (eds.), Smart Unconventional
  Modelling, Simulation and Optimization for Geosciences and
  Petroleum Engineering, Springer Verlag, 2019, pp. 15-26.
  pdf file

  **Carlos Jimenez, Francisco Zapata, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to
  describe correlation in the interval case?", Journal of Uncertain
  Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 109-113.
  pdf file

  **Jake Lasley, Salamah Salamah, Vladik Kreinovich, "Perfect
  reproducibility is not always algorithmically possible: a
  pedagogical observation", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2019,
  Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 114-117.
  pdf file

  Thach Ngoc Nguyen, *Laxman Bokati, Aaron Velasco, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Bhutan Landscape Anomaly: Possible Effect on
  Himalayan Economy (In View of Optimal Description of Elevation
  Profiles)", Thai Journal of Mathematics, 2019, Special issue
  Structural Change Modeling and Optimization in Econometrics,
  pp. 57-69.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "Calibration helps reduce disagreement between
  different pavement condition indices", Journal of Uncertain Systems,
  2019, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 118-121.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "How to estimate pavement roughness: beyond
  International Roughness Index", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2019,
  Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 122-125.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "Relationship Between Measurement Results and
  Expert Estimates of Cumulative Quantities, on the Example of
  Pavement Roughness", Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Symposium Series
  on Computational Intelligence SSCI'2019, Xiamen, China, December
  6-9, 2019, pp. 881-884.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "Towards a Theoretical Explanation of How
  Pavement Condition Index Deteriorates over Time", Journal of
  Uncertain Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 211-215.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, Thach
  Ngoc Nguyen, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to Take
  Expert Uncertainty into Account: Economic Approach Illustrated by
  Pavement Engineering Applications'', In: Vladik Kreinovich and
  Songsak Sriboonchitta (eds.), Structural Changes and Their
  Econometric Modeling, Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2019,
  pp. 182-190.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Detecting At-Risk Students: Empirical Results and
  Their Theoretical Explanation", Mathematical Structures and
  Modeling, 2019, Vol. 49, pp. 73-79.
  pdf file

  Christian Servin, **Reynaldo Martinez, **Peter Hanson, **Leonel Lopez,
  and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to define 'and'- and 'or'-operations
  for intuitionistic and picture fuzzy sets", Journal of Uncertain
  Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 126-132.
  pdf file

  **Christopher W. Tovar, **Carlos Cervantes, **Mario Delgado,
  **Stephanie Figueroa, **Caleb Gillis, **Daniel Gomez, **Andres Llausas,
  **Julio C. Lopez Molinar, **Mariana Rodriguez, **Alexander Wieczkowski,
  Francisco Zapata, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Computing with words:
  when results do not depend on the selection of the membership
  function", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 2,
  pp. 133-137.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda, Nancy Avila, Nelly Gordillo, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Hierarchial Multiclass Classification Works Better Than Direct
  Classification: An Explanation of the Empirical Fact", Journal of
  Uncertain Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 216-219.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda, Nancy Avila, Nelly Gordillo, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Which Fourier components are most informative: general idea and
  case studies", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2019, Vol. 13,
  No. 2, pp. 138-141.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda, **Francis Biney, **Marco Cardiel, **Perla De La O, **Anthony
  DesArmier, **Noa Dodson, **Taylor Dodson, **Sebastian Gonzalez, **Laura
  Hinojos, **Jorge Huerta, **Ryan Jones, **Oliver Martinez, **Carlos A.
  Saldana Matamoros, **Manuel Munoz, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to
  Make Decisions: Consider Multiple Scenarios, Consult Experts, Play
  Down Emotions -- Quantitative Explanation of Commonsense Ideas",
  Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 220-223.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda and Vladik Kreinovich, "When revolutions happen:
  algebraic explanation", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2019,
  Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 142-146.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why
  Derivative: Invariance-Based Explanation", Mathematical Structures
  and Modeling, 2019, Vol. 52, pp. 134-140.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Berlin Wu,
  "When Can We Simplify Data Processing: An Algorithmic Answer",
  Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2016, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 72-80.
  file in pdf

  *Julio Urenda and Vladik Kreinovich, "In the Absence of Information,
  1/n Investment Makes Perfect Sense", Applied Mathematical Sciences,
  2019, Vol. 13, No. 12, pp. 585-589.
  pdf file

  *Julio C. Urenda and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Experts Sometimes Do
  Not Perform Well in Unusual Situations", Mathematical Structures
  and Modeling, 2019, Vol. 51, pp. 109-113.
  pdf file

  *Julio C. Urenda and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why liquids? a
  symmetry-based solution to Weisskopf's challenge", Journal of
  Uncertain Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 224-228.
  pdf file

  *Julio C. Urenda and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why The Obvious Necessary
  Condition is (Often) Also Sufficient (TONCAS): An Explanation of
  the Phenomenon", Mathematical Structures and Modeling, 2019,
  Vol. 52, pp. 93-96.
  pdf file

  *Julio Urenda and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Top Experts Are Paid So
  Much: Economics-Based Explanation", Applied Mathematical Sciences,
  2019, Vol. 13, No. 12, pp. 591-594.
  pdf file

  Aaron Velasco, *Solymar Ayala Cortez, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "How Earthquake Risk Depends on the Closeness to a
  Fault: Symmetry-Based Geometric Analysis", In: Michael Beer and
  Enrico Zio (eds.) Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and
  Reliability Conference ESREL'2019, Hannover, Germany, September
  22-26, 2019, pp. 1560-1565.
  pdf file

  **Yan Wang, **Oscar Galindo, **Michael Baca, **Jake Lasley, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Experimental determination of mechanical properties
  is, in general, NP-hard -- unless we measure everything", Journal
  of Uncertain Systems, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 147-150.
  pdf file

2018

  **Mahdokht Afravi, **Kehinde Akinola, **Fredrick Ayivor,
  **Ramon Bustamante, **Erick Duarte, **Ahnaf Farhan, **Martha Garcia,
  **Govinda K.C., **Jeffrey Hope, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich,
  **Jose Perez, **Francisco Rodriguez, Christian Servin, **Eric Torres,
  and **Jesus Tovar, "Towards Foundations of Interval and Fuzzy
  Uncertainty", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2018, Vol. 12, No. 3,
  pp. 164-170.
  pdf file

  *Solymar Ayala, Aaron Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Soft
  Computing Ideas Can Help Earthquake Geophysics", Mathematical
  Structures and Modeling, 2018, Vol. 47, pp. 91-100.
  pdf file

  *Solymar Ayala Cortez, Aaron Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Need
  for a Large-N Array (and Wavelets and Differences) to Determine
  the Assumption-free 3-D Earth Model", Journal of Uncertain
  Systems, 2018, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 171-175.
  pdf file

  **Pedro Barragan Olague and Vladik Kreinovich, "A Symmetry-Based
  Explanation for an Empirical Model of Fatigue Damage of Composite
  Materials", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2018, Vol. 12, No. 3,
  pp. 176-179.
  pdf file

  **Pedro Barragan, Soheil Nazarian, Vladik Kreinovich, Afshin Gholamy,
  and Mehran Mazari, "How to Estimate Resilient Modulus for Unbound
  Aggregate Materials: A Theoretical Explanation of an Empirical
  Formula", In: Lotfi Zadeh, Ronald R. Yager, Shahnaz N. Shahbazova,
  Marek Reformat, and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), Recent Developments
  and New Direction in Soft Computing: Foundations and Applications,
  Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2018, pp. 571-580.
  pdf file

  *Laxman Bokati and Vladik Kreinovich, "Is 'No Trade Theorem'
  Really a Paradox: Analysis Based on Decision Theory", Applied
  Mathematical Sciences, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 8, pp. 397-404.
  pdf file

  **Daniel Cervantes, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why
  Zipf's Law: A Symmetry-Based Explanation", International
  Mathematical Forum, 2018, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 255-258.
  pdf file

  **Fernando Cervantes, Brian Usevitch, **Leobardo Valera, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Why Sparse? Fuzzy Techniques Explain Empirical
  Efficiency of Sparsity-Based Data- and Image-Processing Algorithms",
  In: Lotfi Zadeh, Ronald R. Yager, Shahnaz N. Shahbazova,
  Marek Reformat, and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), Recent Developments
  and New Direction in Soft Computing: Foundations and Applications,
  Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2018, pp. 419-430.
  pdf file

  Jose Manuel Dominguez Esquivel, *Solymar Ayala Cortez, Aaron
  Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to Monitor Possible Side
  Effects of Enhanced Oil Recovery Process", In: Shahnaz N.
  Shahbazova, Janusz Kacprzyk, Valentina Emilia Balas, and Vladik
  Kreinovich (eds.), "Recent Developments and the New Direction in
  Soft-Computing Foundations and Applications: Selected Papers from
  the World Conference on Soft Computing, Baku, Azerbaijan,
  May 29-31, 2018", Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2021, pp. 521-527.
  pdf file

  **Stephen M. Escarzaga, Craig Tweedie, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "How to Predict Nesting Sites and How to Measure
  Shoreline Erosion: Fuzzy and Probabilistic Techniques for
  Environment-Related Spatial Data Processing", In: Lotfi Zadeh,
  Ronald R. Yager, Shahnaz N. Shahbazova, Marek Reformat, and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), Recent Developments and New Direction in
  Soft Computing: Foundations and Applications, Springer Verlag,
  Cham, Switzerland, 2018, pp. 595-604.
  pdf file

  **Jose Guadalupe Flores Muniz, Vyacheslav V. Kalashnikov, Nataliya
  Kalashnykova, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Skew
  Normal: A Simple Pedagogical Explanation", International Journal
  of Intelligent Technologies and Applied Statistics, 2018, Vol. 11,
  No. 2, pp. 113-120.
  pdf file

  **Oscar Galindo, Vladik Kreinovich, and Olga Kosheleva, "Current
  Quantum Cryptography Algorithm Is Optimal: A Proof", Proceedings
  of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for
  Engineering Solutions CIES'2018, Bengaluru, India, November 18-21,
  2018.
  pdf file

  **Afshin Gholamy and Vladik Kreinovich, "How Many Monte-Carlo
  Simulations Are Needed to Adequately Process Interval Uncertainty:
  An Explanation of the Smart Electric Grid-Related Simulation
  Results", Journal of Innovative Technology and Education, 2018,
  Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-5.
  pdf file

  **Afshin Gholamy, Vladik Kreinovich, and Olga Kosheleva, "Why 70/30
  or 80/20 Relation Between Training and Testing Sets: A Pedagogical
  Explanation", International Journal of Intelligent Technologies
  and Applied Statistics, 2018, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 105-111.
  pdf file

  Vladik Kreinovich, **Rohan Baingolkar, **Swapnil S. Chauhan, and
  **Ishtjot S. Kamboj, "Why Encubation?", International Journal of
  Computing and Optimization, 2018, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 5-8.
  pdf file

  Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, **Mahdokht Afravi, **Genesis
  Bejarano, and **Marisol Chacon, "Economics of Commitment: Why Giving
  Away Some Freedom Makes Sense", Mathematical Structures and
  Modeling, 2018, Vol. 46, pp. 73-78.
  pdf file

  Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre, and **Adriana Beltran, "QFT + NP = P:
  Quantum Field Theory (QFT) -- a possible way of solving
  NP-complete problems in polynomial time", In: Aboul Ella Hassanien,
  Mohamed Elhoseny, Ahmed Farouk, and Janusz Kacprzyk (eds.),
  Quantum Computing: an Environment for Intelligent Large Scale Real
  Application, Springer Verlag, 2018, pp. 229-249.
  pdf file

  **Joe Lorkowski and **Martin Trnecka, "Similarity Approach to
  Defining Basic Level of Concepts Explained from the Utility
  Viewpoint", In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.),
  Constraint Programming and Decision Making: Theory and
  Applications, Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2018,
  pp. 107-112.
  pdf file

  Patricia Melin, Oscar Castillo, **Andrzej Pownuk, Olga Kosheleva,
  and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to Gauge the Accuracy of Fuzzy
  Control Recommendations: A Simple Idea", In: Patricia Melin, Oscar
  Castillo, Janusz Kacprzyk, Marek Reformat, and William Melek
  (eds.), Fuzzy Logic in Intelligent System Design: Theory and
  Applications, Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2018,
  pp. 287-292.
  pdf file

  **Martha Osegueda Escobar, Vladik Kreinovich, and Thach N. Nguyen,
  "Is It Legitimate Statistics or Is It Sexism: Why Discrimination
  Is Not Rational", In: Ly H. Anh, Le Si Dong, Vladik Kreinovich,
  and Nguyen Ngoc Thach (eds.), Econometrics for Financial
  Applications, Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2018, pp. 235-242.
  pdf file

  **Jose Perez and Vladik Kreinovich, "Gartner's Hype Cycle: A Simple
  Explanation", International Journal of Computing and Optimization,
  2018, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-4.
  pdf file

  **Andrzej Pownuk and Vladik Kreinovich, "(Hypothetical) negative
  probabilities can speed up uncertainty propagation algorithms",
  In: Aboul Ella Hassanien, Mohamed Elhoseny, Ahmed Farouk, and
  Janusz Kacprzyk (eds.), Quantum Computing: an Environment for
  Intelligent Large Scale Real Application, Springer Verlag,
  2018, pp. 251-271.
  pdf file

  **Andrzej Pownuk, Vladik Kreinovich, and Songsak Sriboonchitta,
  "Fuzzy Data Processing Beyond Min t-Norm", In:
  Christian Berger-Vachon, Ana Maria Gil Lafuente, Janusz Kacprzyk,
  Yuriy Kondratenko, Jose M. Merigo Lindahl, and Carlo Morabito
  (eds.), Complex Systems: Solutions and Challenges in Economics,
  Management, and Engineering, Springer Verlag, 2018, pp. 237-250.
  pdf file

  **Benjamin W. Robertson, Vladik Kreinovich and Olga Kosheleva, "How
  to Make a Proof of Halting Problem More Convincing: A Pedagogical
  Remark", International Mathematical Forum, 2018, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 9-13.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, and
  Vladik Kreinovch, "Fuzzy Ideas Explain a Complex Heuristic
  Algorithm for Gauging Pavement Conditions", Mathematical
  Structures and Modeling, 2018, Vol. 47, pp. 82-90.
  pdf file

  *Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Carlos M. Chang Albitres, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "Measurement-Type "Calibration" of Expert
  Estimates Improves Their Accuracy and Their Usability: Pavement
  Engineering Case", Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on
  Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions CIES'2018,
  Bengaluru, India, November 18-21, 2018.
  pdf file

  Christian Servin, **Gerardo Muela and Vladik Kreinovich, "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?", In: Patricia Melin, Oscar Castillo,
  Janusz Kacprzyk, Marek Reformat, and William Melek (eds.), Fuzzy
  Logic in Intelligent System Design: Theory and Applications,
  Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2018, pp. 307-313.
  pdf file

  Christian Servin, **Gerardo D. Muela and Vladik Kreinovich, "Fuzzy
  Analogues of Sets and Functions Can Be Uniquely Determined from
  the Corresponding Ordered Category: A Theorem", Axioms, 2018,
  Vol. 7, Paper 8, doi:10.3390/axioms7010008; reprinted in: Esteban
  Indurain, Humberto Bustince, and Javier Fernandez (eds.), New
  Trends in Fuzzy Set Theory and Related Items, MDPI, Basel, 2018,
  pp. 118-124.
  pdf file

  **Gerardo Uranga, Vladik Kreinovich, and Olga Kosheleva, "Why
  Learning Has Aha-Moments and Why We Should Also Reward Effort, Not
  Just Results", International Journal of Intelligent Technologies
  and Applied Statistics, 2018, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 97-103.
  pdf file

  **Leobardo Valera, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why
  Burgers Equation: Symmetry-Based Approach", Proceedings of the
  11th International Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision
  Making CoProd'2018, Tokyo, Japan, September 10, 2018.
  pdf file

  Francisco Zapata, **Maliheh Zargaran, and Vladik Kreinovich, "One
  Part at a Time is the Best Strategy for Software Production: A
  Proof", Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on
  Constraint Programming and Decision Making CoProd'2018, Tokyo,
  Japan, September 10, 2018.
  pdf file

2017

  **Mahdokht Michelle Afravi and Vladik Kreinovich, "Decision making
  under interval uncertainty as a natural example of a quandle",
  Reliable Computing, 2017, Vol. 25, pp. 8-14.
  pdf file

  **Mahdokht Michelle Afravi and Vladik Kreinovich, "From Fuzzy
  Universal Approximation to Fuzzy Universal Representation: It All
  Depends on the Continuum Hypothesis", Proceedings of the Joint
  17th Congress of International Fuzzy Systems Association and 9th
  International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems
  IFSA-SCIS'2017, Otsu, Japan, June 27-30, 2017.
  pdf file

  **Mahdokht Afravi and Vladik Kreinovich, "Fuzzy Systems Are
  Universal Approximators for Random Dependencies: A Simplified
  Proof", Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on
  Constraint Programming and Decision Making CoProd'2017, El Paso,
  Texas, November 3, 2017, pp. 14-18.
  pdf file

  *Solymar Ayala Cortez, Aaron A. Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Soft Computing Approach to Detecting Discontinuities: Seismic
  Analysis and Beyond", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on
  Systems, Man, and Cybernetics SMC'2017, Banff, Canada,
  October 5-8, 2017, pp. 363-366.
  pdf file

  **Pedro Barragan Olague, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Why RSA? A Pedagogical Comment", Journal of Innovative Technology
  and Education, 2017, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 19-24.
  pdf file

  **Pedro Barragan Olague and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why growth of
  cancerous tumors is Gompertzian: a symmetry-based explanation",
  Cybernetics and Physics, 2017, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 13-18.
  pdf file

  **Pedro A. Barragan Olague and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why
  superellipsoids: a probability-based explanation", Reliable
  Computing, 2017, Vol. 25, pp. 1-7.
  pdf file

  Ludmila Dymova, Pavel Sevastjanov, **Andrzej Pownuk, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Practical Need for Algebraic (Equality-Type)
  Solutions of Interval Equations and for Extended-Zero Solutions",
  Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parallel
  Processing and Applied Mathematics PPAM'17, Lublin, Poland,
  September 10-13, 2017.
  pdf file

  **Stephen Escarzaga, Craig Tweedie, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to
  Predict Nesting Sites?", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2017, Vol.
  11, No. 2, pp. 119-121.
  pdf file

  **Jose Guadalupe Flores Muniz, Vyacheslav V. Kalashnikov,
  Vladik Kreinovich, and Nataliya Kalashnykova, "Gaussian and Cauchy
  Functions in the Filled Function Method -- Why and What Next: On
  the Example of Optimizing Road Tolls", Acta Politechnica Hungarica,
  2017, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 237-250.
  pdf file

  **Angel F. Garcia Contreras, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Plans Are Worthless but Planning Is Everything: A Theoretical
  Explanation of Eisenhower's Observation", Proceedings of the 10th
  International Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision
  Making CoProd'2017, El Paso, Texas, November 3, 2017, pp. 48-53.
  pdf file

  **Angel F. Garcia Contreras, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Why Convex Optimization Is Ubiquitous and Why Pessimism Is
  Widely Spread", Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on
  Constraint Programming and Decision Making CoProd'2017, El Paso,
  Texas, November 3, 2017, pp. 38-42.
  pdf file

  **Afshin Gholamy and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to Use
  Absolute-Error-Minimizing Software to Minimize Relative Error:
  Practitioner's Guide", International Mathematical Forum, 2017,
  Vol. 12, No. 16, pp. 763-770.
  pdf file

  **Afshin Gholamy and Vladik Kreinovich, "What Is the Optimal Bin
  Size of a Histogram: An Informal Description", International
  Mathematical Forum, 2017, Vol. 12, No. 15, pp. 731-736.
  pdf file

  **Lukas Havrlant and Vladik Kreinovich, "A Simple
  Probabilistic Explanation of Term Frequency-Inverse Document
  Frequency (tf-idf) Heuristic (and Variations Motivated by This
  Explanation)", International Journal of General Systems, 2017,
  Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 27-36.
  pdf file

  Vyacheslav Kalashnikov, Vladik Kreinovich, **Jose G. Flores-Muniz,
  and Nataliya I. Kalashnykova, "Structure of Filled Functions: Why
  Gaussian and Cauchy Templates Are Most Efficient", International
  Journal of Combinatorial Optimization and Informatics, 2016,
  Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 87-93.
  pdf file

  Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, **Andrzej Pownuk, and
  Rodrigo Romero, "How to take into account model inaccuracy when
  estimating the uncertainty of the result of data processing",
  ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems,
  Part B: Mechanical Engineering, 2017, Vol. 3, No. 1,
  Paper No. 011002.
  pdf file

  Bartlomiej Jacek Kubica, **Andrzej Pownuk, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "What Decision to Make In a Conflict Situation under Interval
  Uncertainty: Efficient Algorithms for the Hurwicz Approach",
  Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parallel
  Processing and Applied Mathematics PPAM'17, Lublin, Poland,
  September 10-13, 2017.
  pdf file

  Sergey Kumkov, Vladik Kreinovich, and **Andrzej Pownuk, "In System
  Identification, Interval (and Fuzzy) Estimates Can Lead to Much
  Better Accuracy than the Traditional Statistical Ones: General
  Algorithm and Case Study", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on
  Systems, Man, and Cybernetics SMC'2017, Banff, Canada,
  October 5-8, 2017, pp. 367-372.
  pdf file

  **Gerardo Muela, "Why Decimal System and Binary System Are the Most
  Widely Used: A Possible Explanation", Proceedings of the 10th
  International Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision
  Making CoProd'2017, El Paso, Texas, November 3, 2017, pp. 24-27.
  File in pdf

  **Gerardo Muela, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Christian
  Servin, "It Is Possible to Determine Exact Fuzzy Values Based on
  an Ordering of Interval-Valued or Set-Valued Fuzzy Degrees",
  Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems
  FUZZ-IEEE'2017, Naples, Italy, July 9-12, 2017.
  pdf file

  **Gerardo Muela, Vladik Kreinovich, and Christian Servin,
  "Scaling-Invariant Description of Dependence Between Fuzzy
  Variables: Towards a Fuzzy Version of Copulas", Proceedings of the
  Joint 17th Congress of International Fuzzy Systems Association and
  9th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent
  Systems IFSA-SCIS'2017, Otsu, Japan, June 27-30, 2017.
  pdf file

  **Gerardo Muela, Christian Servin, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to
  Make Machine Learning Robust Against Adversarial Inputs",
  Mathematical Structures and Modeling, 2017, Vol. 42, pp. 127-130.
  pdf file

  **Martha Osegueda Escobar, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "How to Teach Implication", Proceedings of International Forum in
  Mathematics Education, Kazan, Russia, October 18-22, 2017,
  Vol. 2, pp. 193-195.
  pdf file

  **Justin Parra, Olac Fuentes, Elizabeth Anthony, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Prediction of Volcanic Eruptions: Case Study of Rare
  Events in Chaotic Systems with Delay", Proceedings of the IEEE
  Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics SMC'2017, Banff,
  Canada, October 5-8, 2017, pp. 351-356.
  pdf file

  **Justin Parra, Olac Fuentes, Elizabeth Anthony, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Use of Machine Learning to Analyze and -- Hopefully
  -- Predict Volcano Activity", Acta Politechnica Hungarica, 2017,
  Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 209-221.
  pdf file

  **Andrzej Pownuk, "Combining Interval, Probabilistic, and Other
  Types of Uncertainty in Engineering Applications", PhD Dissertation,
  University of Texas at El Paso, 2017.
  file in pdf

  **Andrzej Pownuk, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Towards
  Decision Making under General Uncertainty", Mathematical
  Structures and Modeling, 2017, Vol. 44, pp. 109-119.
  pdf file

  **Andrzej Pownuk and Vladik Kreinovich, "Which Value x Best
  Represents a Sample x1, ..., xn: Utility-Based Approach Under
  Interval Uncertainty", Proceedings of the 10th International
  Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision Making CoProd'2017,
  El Paso, Texas, November 3, 2017, pp. 43-47.
  pdf file

  **Andrzej Pownuk and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why linear interpolation?",
  Mathematical Structures and Modeling, 2017, Vol. 43, pp. 43-49.
  pdf file

  **Andrzej Pownuk and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Mixture of Probability
  Distributions?", International Journal of Intelligent Technologies
  and Applied Statistics (IJITAS), 2017, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 41-45.
  pdf file

  **Andrzej Pownuk and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Unexpectedly Positive
  Experiences Make Decision Makers More Optimistic: An Explanation",
  Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Constraint
  Programming and Decision Making CoProd'2017, El Paso, Texas,
  November 3, 2017, pp. 33-37.
  pdf file

  **Anthony Welte, Luc Jaulin, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Avoiding Fake Boundaries in Set Interval Computing", Journal of
  Uncertain Systems, 2017, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 137-148.
  pdf file

  **Anthony Welte, Luc Jaulin, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Computability of the Avoidance Set and of the Set-Valued
  Identification Problem", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2017,
  Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 129-136.
  pdf file

2016

  **Mahdokht 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", Proceedings of
  the 2016 World Conference on Soft Computing, Berkeley, California,
  May 22-25, 2016, pp. 336-340.
  pdf file

  **Mahdokht Afravi and Vladik Kreinovich, "Positive Consequences of
  Negative Attitude: Game-Theoretic Analysis", International
  Journal of Contemporary Mathematical Sciences, 2016, Vol. 11, No.
  3, pp. 113-118.
  file in pdf

  **Mahdokht Afravi and Vladik Kreinovich, "What If We Use Different
  "And"-Operations in the Same Expert System", Proceedings of the
  2016 Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information
  Processing Society NAFIPS'2016, El Paso, Texas, October 31 -
  November 4, 2016.
  pdf file

  **Mahdokht Afravi, Vladik Kreinovich, and Thongchai Dumrongpokaphan,
  "Metric Spaces Under Interval Uncertainty: Towards an Adequate
  Definition", Proceedings of the 15th Mexican International
  Conference on Artificial Intelligence MICAI'2016, Cancun, Mexico,
  October 25-29, 2016, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial
  Intelligence.
  pdf file

  **Pedro Barragan Olague, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How
  Resilient Modulus of a Pavement Depends on Moisture Level: Towards
  a Theoretical Justification of a Practically Important Empirical
  Formula", Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Conference of the North
  American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2016, El Paso,
  Texas, October 31 - November 4, 2016.
  pdf file

  **Pedro Barragan Olague and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to Explain The
  Empirical Success of Generalized Trigonometric Functions in
  Processing Discontinuous Signals", Mathematical Structures and
  Modeling, 2016, Vol. 37, pp. 25-29.
  pdf file

  **Pedro Barragan Olague and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Half-Frequency
  in Intelligent Compaction", Proceedings of the 4th International
  Conference on Mathematical and Computer Modeling, Omsk, Russia,
  November 11, 2016, pp. 23-26.
  pdf file

  **Pedro Barragan, Soheil Nazarian, Vladik Kreinovich, Afshin Gholamy,
  and Mehran Mazari, "How to Estimate Resilient Modulus for Unbound
  Aggregate Materials: A Theoretical Explanation of an Empirical
  Formula", Proceedings of the 2016 World Conference on Soft
  Computing, Berkeley, California, May 22-25, 2016, pp. 203-207.
  pdf file

  **Fernando Cervantes, Bryan Usevitch, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Rotation-Invariance Can Further Improve State-of-the-Art Blind
  Deconvolution Techniques", Proceedings of International IEEE
  Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics SMC'2016, Budapest,
  Hungary, October 9-12, 2016.
  pdf file

  **Fernando Cervantes, Bryan Usevitch, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why
  Lp-methods in Signal and Image Processing: A Fuzzy-Based
  Explanation", Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Conference of the
  North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2016,
  El Paso, Texas, October 31 - November 4, 2016.
  pdf file

  **Fernando Cervantes, Brian Usevitch, Leobardo Valera, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Why Sparse? Fuzzy Techniques Explain Empirical
  Efficiency of Sparsity-Based Data- and Image-Processing Algorithms",
  Proceedings of the 2016 World Conference on Soft Computing,
  Berkeley, California, May 22-25, 2016, pp. 165-169.
  pdf file

  **Fernando Cervantes, Bryan Usevitch, **Leobardo Valera, Vladik
  Kreinovich, and Olga Kosheleva, "Fuzzy Techniques Provide a
  Theoretical Explanation for the Heuristic l^p-Regularization of
  Signals and Images", Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International
  Conference on Fuzzy Systems FUZZ-IEEE'2016, Vancouver, Canada,
  July 24-29, 2016.
  pdf file

  Thongchai Dumrongpokaphan, **Pedro Barragan, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Empirically Successful Transformations from Non-Gaussian to
  Close-to-Gaussian Distributions: Theoretical Justification",
  Thai Journal of Mathematics, 2016, Special Issue on Applied
  Mathematics: Bayesian Econometrics, pp. 51-61.
  pdf file

  **Stephen M. Escarzaga, Craig Tweedie, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "How to Predict Nesting Sites and How to Measure
  Shoreline Erosion: Fuzzy and Probabilistic Techniques for
  Environment-Related Spatial Data Processing", Proceedings of the
  2016 World Conference on Soft Computing, Berkeley, California,
  May 22-25, 2016, pp. 249-252.
  pdf file

  **Carlos Fajardo, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "One Needs
  to Be Careful When Dismissing Outliers: A Realistic Example",
  Journal of Innovative Technology and Education, 2016, Vol. 3,
  No. 1, pp. 205-214.
  pdf file

  Vyacheslav Kalashnikov, **Jose G. Florez-Muniz, Nataliya Kalashnykova,
  and Vladik Kreinovich, "A Heuristic Solution of the Toll Optimal
  Problem With Congestion Affected Costs", Proceedings of the
  International Conference on Logistics and Supply Chains CiLOG'2016,
  Merida, Mexico, October 5-7, 2016.
  pdf file

  Vyacheslav Kalashnikov, Vladik Kreinovich, **Jose G. Flores-Muniz,
  and Nataliya I. Kalashnykova, "Structure of Filled Functions: Why
  Gaussian and Cauchy Templates Are Most Efficient", International
  Journal of Combinatorial Optimization and Informatics, 2016,
  Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 87-93.
  pdf file

  **Kimberly Kato, "How to Assign Numerical Values to Partially
  Ordered Levels of Confidence: Robustness Approach", Proceedings of
  the 4th International Conference on Mathematical and Computer
  Modeling, Omsk, Russia, November 11, 2016, pp. 85-89.
  File in pdf

  Olga Kosheleva, **Mahdokht Afravi, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why
  Utility Non-Linearly Depends on Money: A Commonsense Explanation",
  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mathematical
  and Computer Modeling, Omsk, Russia, November 11, 2016, pp. 13-18.
  pdf file

  Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, Joe Lorkowski, and **Martha
  Osegueda, "How to Transform Partial Order Between Degrees into
  Numerical Values", Proceedings of International IEEE Conference on
  Systems, Man, and Cybernetics SMC'2016, Budapest, Hungary,
  October 9-12, 2016.
  pdf file

  Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and **Martha Osegueda Escobar,
  "Fuzzy-Inspired Hierarchical Version of the von Neumann-Morgenstern
  Solutions as a Natural Way to Resolve Collaboration-Related
  Conflicts", Proceedings of International IEEE Conference on
  Systems, Man, and Cybernetics SMC'2016, Budapest, Hungary,
  October 9-12, 2016.
  pdf file

  Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, **Martha Osegueda Escobar, and
  **Kimberly Kato, "Towards the Most Robust Way of Assigning Numerical
  Degrees to Ordered Labels, With Possible Applications to Dark
  Matter and Dark Energy", Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Conference
  of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society
  NAFIPS'2016, El Paso, Texas, October 31 - November 4, 2016.
  pdf file

  Olga Kosheleva, **Martha Osegueda Escobar, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Von Neumann-Morgenstern Solutions, Quantum Physics, and Stored
  Programs vs. Data: Unity of Von Neumann's Legacy",
  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mathematical
  and Computer Modeling, Omsk, Russia, November 11, 2016, pp. 8-13.
  pdf file

  Vladik Kreinovich and **Esthela Gallardo, "Optimizing Cloud Use under
  Interval Uncertainty", In: Roman Wyrzykowski, Ewa Deelman, Jack Dongarra,
  Konrad Karczewski, Jacek Kitowski, and Kazimierz Wiatr (eds.),
  Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, Springer Verlag,
  Cham, Switzerland, 2016, pp. 435-444.
  pdf file

  **L. Octavio Lerma and Olga Kosheleva, "Why Sustained Effort Is
  Important in Research: A Geometric Explanation", Journal of
  Uncertain Systems, 2016, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 31--33.
  pdf file

  **Octavio Lerma, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why
  Injecting Fine Dust into a Tornado Is More Promising Than
  Injecting Coarse Dust: A Geometric Explanation", Geombinatorics,
  2016, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 118-122.
  pdf file

  **Octavio Lerma and Vladik Kreinovich, "Student Autonomy Improves
  Learning: A Theoretical Justification of the Empirical Results",
  Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2016, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 34-38.
  file in pdf

  **Octavio Lerma, **Leobardo Valera, Deana Pennington, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Testing a Power Law Model of Knowledge Propagation:
  Case Study of the Out of Eden Walk Project", Journal of Uncertain
  Systems, 2016, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 39-47.
  pdf file

  **Joe Lorkowski, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Every
  Function Computable by a Single Use Expression Is a Ratio of Two
  Multi-Linear Functions", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2016, Vol.
  10, No. 1, pp. 48-52.
  pdf file

  **Joe Lorkowski and Vladik Kreinovich, "Fuzzy Logic Ideas Can Help
  in Explaining Kahneman and Tversky's Empirical Decision Weights",
  In: Lotfi Zadeh et al. (Eds.), Recent Developments and New
  Direction in Soft-Computing Foundations and Applications,
  Springer Verlag, 2016, pp. 89-98.
  pdf file

  **Joe Lorkowski and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Awe Makes People More
  Generous: Utility Theory Can Explain Recent Experiments", Journal
  of Uncertain Systems, 2016, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 53-56.
  pdf file

  **Martha Osegueda Escobar and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to Compute
  von Neumann-Morgenstern Solutions", Mathematical Structures and
  Modeling, 2016, Vol. 39, pp. 68-73.
  pdf file

  **Andrzej Pownuk, "Combining Interval and Probabilistic Uncertainty
  in Engineering Applications", Master's Thesis, University of Texas
  at El Paso, 2016.
  file in pdf

  Andrzej Pownuk, **Pedro Barragan Olague, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why
  Compaction Meter Value (CMV) Is a Good Measure of Pavement
  Stiffness: Towards a Possible Theoretical Explanation",
  Mathematical Structures and Modeling, 2016, Vol. 40, pp. 48-54.
  pdf file

  **Andrzej Pownuk, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Limitations of Realistic Monte-Carlo Techniques in Estimating
  Interval Uncertainty", Proceedings of the 7th International
  Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing REC'2016, Bochum,
  Germany, June 15-17, 2016, pp. 269-284.
  pdf file

  **Andrzej Pownuk and Vladik Kreinovich, "Which Point From an
  Interval Should We Choose?", Proceedings of the 2016 Annual
  Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing
  Society NAFIPS'2016, El Paso, Texas, October 31 - November 4, 2016.
  pdf file

  **Beverly Rivera and Francisco Zapata, "How to Distribute Security
  Efforts Between Different Units of an Industrial System",
  Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2016, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 57-60.
  pdf file

  *Nicholas Sun, "Homotopy Techniques in Solving Systems of
  Nonlinear Equations: A Theoretical Justification of Convex
  Combinations", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2016, Vol. 10,
  No. 1, pp. 68-71.
  pdf file

  **Anthony Welte, Luc Jaulin, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Robust Data Processing in the Presence of Uncertainty and
  Outliers: Case of Localization Problems", Proceedings of the IEEE
  Series of Symposia in Computational Intelligence SSCI'2016,
  Athens, Greece, December 6-9, 2016.
  pdf file

2015

  **Mahdokht Afravi and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to Divide a
  Territory: an Argument in Favor of Private Property", Proceedings
  of the 3rd International Conference on Mathematical and Computer
  Modeling, Omsk, Russia, November 12, 2015, pp. 20-22.

  **Mazin Al-Zoubi, Carlos Chang, Soheil Nazarian, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "A Systematic Statistical Approach to Populate
  Missing Performance Data in Pavement Management Systems", Journal
  of Infrastructure Systems, 2015, Vol. 21, No. 4, paper 04015002.

  **Jerald Brady, **Octavio Lerma, Vladik Kreinovich, and Craig Tweedie,
  "Toward Computing an Optimal Trajectory for an
  Environment-Oriented Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) under
  Uncertainty", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2015, Vol. 9, No. 2,
  pp. 84-94.

  **Quentin Brefort, Luc Jaulin, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Towards Fast and Reliable Localization of an
  Underwater Object: An Interval Approach", Journal of Uncertain
  Systems, 2015, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 95-102.

  Martine Ceberio, **Leobardo Valera, Olga Kosheleva, and Rodrigo Romero,
  "Model reduction: why it is possible and how it can potentially
  help to control swarms of Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAVs)",
  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy
  Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2015 and 5th World
  Conference on Soft Computing, Redmond, Washington, August 17-19, 2015.
  File in pdf

  **Afshin Gholamy and Vladik Kreinovich, "How geophysicists'
  intuition helps seismic data processing", Proceedings of the
  World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association
  IFSA'2015, joint with the Annual Conference of the European
  Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology EUSFLAT'2015, Gijon,
  Asturias, Spain, June 30 - July 3, 2015, pp. 749-756.
  file in pdf

  **Ali Jalal-Kamali, M. Shahriar Hossain, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "How to Understand Connections Based on Big Data: From Cliques to
  Flexible Granules", In: Shyi-Ming Chen and Witold Pedrycz (eds.),
  Information Granularity, Big Data, and Computational Intelligence,
  Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2015, pp. 63-87.
  pdf file

  Olga Kosheleva, **Joe Lorkowski, **Viannette Felix, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "How to Take Into Account Student's Degree of
  Confidence When Grading Exams", Proceedings of the 5th
  International Conference "Mathematics Education: Theory and
  Practice" MATHEDU'2015, Kazan, Russia, November 27-28, 2015, pp.
  29-30.

  Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, **Andrzej Pownuk, and Rodrigo
  Romero, "How to Take into Account Model Inaccuracy When
  Estimating the Uncertainty of the Result of Data Processing",
  Proceedings of the ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering
  Congress & Exposition IMECE'2015, Houston, Texas, November 13-19,
  2015.
  pdf file

  Vladik Kreinovich, **Jonathan Quijas, **Esthela Gallardo, **Caio De Sa
  Lopes, Olga Kosheleva, and Shahnaz Shahbazova, "Simple Linear
  Interpolation Explains All Usual Choices in Fuzzy Techniques:
  Membership Functions, t-Norms, t-Conorms, and Defuzzification",
  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy
  Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2015 and 5th World
  Conference on Soft Computing, Redmond, Washington, August 17-19,
  2015.
  pdf file

  **Leonardo Octavio Lerma, "Towards Analytical Techniques for
  Optimizing Knowledge Acquisition, Processing, Propagation, and Use
  in Cyberinfrastructure", PhD Dissertation, University of Texas at
  El Paso, 2015.
  file in pdf

  **L. Octavio Lerma and Olga Kosheleva, "One More Mathematical
  Argument in Favor of Interdisciplinary Research and Diversity",
  International Mathematical Forum, 2014, Vol. 9, No. 32,
  pp. 1611-1614.
  pdf file

  **Octavio Lerma, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Interleaving Enhances Learning: A Possible Geometric
  Explanation", Geombinatorics, 2015, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 135-139.

  **Octavio Lerma, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "A Simple
  Geometric Model Provides a Possible Quantitative Explanation of
  the Advantages of Immediate Feedback in Student Learning",
  Geombinatorics, 2015, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 22-29.

  **Sio-Long Lo, "Computing Standard-Deviation-to-Mean
  and Variance-to-Mean Ratios under Interval Uncertainty Is
  NP-Hard", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2015, Vol. 9, pp. 124-132.
  pdf file

  **Joe Lorkowski, "Bounded Rationality in Decision Making
  Under Uncertainty: Towards Optimal Granularity", PhD Dissertation,
  University of Texas at El Paso, 2015.
  file in pdf

  **Joe Lorkowski, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How
  success in a task depends on the skills level: two
  uncertainty-based justifications of a semi-heuristic Rasch
  model", Proceedings of the World Congress of the International
  Fuzzy Systems Association IFSA'2015, joint with the Annual
  Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology
  EUSFLAT'2015, Gijon, Asturias, Spain, June 30 - July 3, 2015, pp.
  506-511.
  file in pdf

  **Joe Lorkowski, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to
  Take Into Account a Student's Degree of Certainty When Evaluating
  the Test Results", Proceedings of the 45th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in
  Education Conference FIE'2015, El Paso, Texas, October 21-24,
  2015, pp. 1568-1572.

  **Joe Lorkowski, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Sergei
  Soloviev, "How Design Quality Improves with Increasing
  Computational Abilities: General Formulas and Case Study of
  Aircraft Fuel Efficiency", Journal of Advanced Computational
  Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII), 2015, Vol. 19,
  No. 5, pp. 581-584.

  **Joe Lorkowski and Vladik Kreinovich, "Granularity Helps Explain
  Seemingly Irrational Features of Human Decision Making", In:
  Witold Pedrycz and Shyi-Ming Chen (eds.), Granular Computing and
  Decision-Making: Interactive and Iterative Approaches, Springer
  Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2015, pp. 1-31.

  **Joe Lorkowski, Vladik Kreinovich, and Olga Kosheleva, "In
  Engineering Classes, How to Assign Partial Credit: From Current
  Subjective Practice to Exact Formulas (Based on Computational
  Intelligence Ideas)", Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium Series on
  Computational Intelligence, Cape Town, South Africa, December
  7-10, 2015, pp. 1621-1626.

  **Joe Lorkowski, Olga Kosheleva, Luc Longpre, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "When Can We Reduce Multi-Variable Range Estimation
  Problem to Two Fewer-Variable Problems?", Reliable Computing,
  2015, Vol. 21, pp. 1-10.

  **Joe Lorkowski, Luc Longpre, Olga Kosheleva, and Salem Benferhat,
  "Coming Up with a Good Question Is Not Easy: A Proof",
  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy
  Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2015 and 5th World
  Conference on Soft Computing, Redmond, Washington, August 17-19, 2015.
  File in pdf

  Geovany Ramirez, Craig Tweedie, **Jason Carlsson, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "How to Modify Data Processing Algorithms So That
  They Detect Only Dependencies Which Make Sense to Domain
  Experts", Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on
  Mathematical and Computer Modeling, Omsk, Russia, November 12,
  2015, pp. 137-139.

  **Beverly Rivera and Olga Kosheleva, "How to Predict the
  Number of Vulnerabilities in a Software System: A Theoretical
  Justification for an Empirical Formula", Journal of
  Uncertain Systems, 2015, Vol. 9, pp. 133-138.
  pdf file

  **Beverly Rivera, Francisco Zapata, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Security Risk Assessment: Towards a Justification for the
  Security Risk Factor Table Model", Journal of Advanced
  Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII),
  2015, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 676-680.
  file in pdf

  Chrysostomos D. Stylios, **Andrzej Pownuk, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Sometimes, It Is Beneficial to Process Different Types of
  Uncertainty Separately", Proceedings of the Annual Conference of
  the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society
  NAFIPS'2015 and 5th World Conference on Soft Computing, Redmond,
  Washington, August 17-19, 2015.
  pdf file

  *Nicholas Sun, "Why Convex Homotopy Is Very Useful in Optimization:
  A Possible Theoretical Explanation", Journal of Uncertain Systems,
  2015, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 139-143.
  pdf file

  Komsan Suriya, Tatcha Sudtasan, Tonghui Wang, **Octavio Lerma, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "Diversity Is Beneficial for a Research Group:
  One More Quantitative Argument", Journal of Uncertain Systems,
  2015, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 144-147.

  Komsan Suriya, Tatcha Sudtasan, Tonghui Wang, **Octavio Lerma, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "A Natural Simple Model of Scientists'
  Strength Leads to Skew-Normal Distribution", International
  Journal of Intelligent Technologies and Applied Statistics
  (IJITAS), 2015, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 153-158.

  **Lennox Thompson, Aaron Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Construction of ShearWave Models by Applying Multi-Objective
  Optimization to Multiple Geophysical Data Sets", In: Gerard
  Olivar Tost and Olga Vasilieva (eds.), Analysis, Modelling,
  Optimization, and Numerical Techniques, Springer Verlag, Berlin,
  Heidelberg, 2015, pp. 309-326.

  *Julio Urenda, David Finston, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Once We Know
  that a Polynomial Mapping Is Rectifiable, We Can Algorithmically
  Find a Rectification", Mathematical Structures and Modeling,
  2015, Vol. 36, pp. 67-73.

  Francisco Zapata, **Octavio Lerma, **Leobardo Valera, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "How to Speed Up Software Migration and
  Modernization: Successful Strategies Developed by Precisiating
  Expert Knowledge", Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the
  North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2015
  and 5th World Conference on Soft Computing, Redmond, Washington,
  August 17-19, 2015.
  pdf file

2014

  **Aditi Barua, **Lalitha Snigdha Mudunuri, and Olga Kosheleva, "Why
  Trapezoidal and Triangular Membership Functions Work So Well:
  Towards a Theoretical Explanation", Journal of Uncertain Systems,
  2014, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 164-168.
  pdf file

  **Quentin Brefort, Luc Jaulin, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "If We Take Into Account that Constraints Are Soft,
  Then Processing Constraints Becomes Algorithmically Solvable",
  Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence
  for Engineering Solutions CIES'2014, Orlando, Florida, December
  9-12, 2014, pp. 1-10.

  **Jennifer Del Valle, Vladik Kreinovich, and Piotr J. Wojciechowski,
  "Feasible algorithms for lattice and directed subspaces",
  Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 2014, Vol.
  114A, No, 2, pp. 199-204.

  **Riya George, **Suresh Subramanian, **Alejandro Vega, and
  Olga Kosheleva, "Minimization of Average Sensitivity as a Method of
  Selecting Fuzzy Functions and Operations: Successes and
  Limitations", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2014, Vol. 8, No. 3,
  pp. 173-179.
  pdf file

  **Afshin Gholamy and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Ricker Wavelets Are
  Successful in Processing Seismic Data: Towards a Theoretical
  Explanation", Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational
  Intelligence for Engineering Solutions CIES'2014, Orlando,
  Florida, December 9-12, 2014, pp. 11-16.
  file in pdf

  **Luis Gutierrez, Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich, **Rebekah L.
  Gruver, **Marianna Pena, **Matthew J. Rister, **Abraham Saldana,
  **John Vasquez, **Janelle Ybarra, and Salem Benferhat, "From
  Interval-Valued Probabilities to Interval-Valued Possibilities:
  Case Studies of Interval Computation under Constraints",
  Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Reliable
  Engineering Computing REC'2014, Chicago, Illinois, May 25-28,
  2014, pp. 77-95.

  **Aline Jaimes, Craig Tweedie, Tanja Magoc, Vladik Kreinovich, and
  Martine Ceberio, "Selecting the Best Location for a
  Meteorological Tower: A Case Study of Multi-Objective Constraint
  Optimization", In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.),
  Constraint Programming and Decision Making, Springer Verlag,
  Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014, pp. 61-66.
  pdf file

  **Misha Koshelev, "Gibbs Sampling as a Natural Statistical Analog of
  Constraints Techniques: Prediction in Science under General
  Probabilistic Uncertainty", In: Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.),
  Constraint Programming and Decision Making, Springer Verlag,
  Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014, pp. 67-74.
  pdf file

  Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and **Octavio Lerma, "Fitts's
  Law: Towards a Geometric Explanation", Geombinatorics, 2014, Vol.
  24, No. 2, pp. 78-83.

  **Octavio Lerma, "Towards analytical techniques for optimizing
  knowledge acquisition, processing, propagation, and use in
  cyberinfrastructure", Master's Thesis, University of Texas at El
  Paso, 2014. file in pdf

  **L. Octavio Lerma, Deana Pennington, and Vladik Kreinovich, "On
  Early Stages of Idea Propagation, the Number of Adopters Grows as
  n(t) ~ c * t^a: Theoretical Explanation of the Empirical
  Observation", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2014, Vol. 8, No. 3,
  pp. 180-185.

  **L. Octavio Lerma, Craig Tweedie, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Increased Climate Variability Is More Visible Than Global
  Warming: A General System-Theory Explanation", Proceedings of the
  International Conference on Risk Analysis in Meteorological
  Disasters RAMD'2014, Nanjing, China, October 12-13, 2014.
  file in pdf

  **Joe Lorkowski, Rafik Aliev, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Towards
  Decision Making under Interval, Set-Valued, Fuzzy, and Z-Number
  Uncertainty: A Fair Price Approach", Proceedings of the IEEE
  World Congress on Computational Intelligence WCCI'2014, Beijing,
  China, July 6-11, 2014.
  pdf file

  **Joe Lorkowski, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to
  Modify Grade Point Average (GPA) to Make It More Adequate",
  International Mathematical Forum, 2014, Vol. 9, No. 28, pp.
  1363-1367.
  pdf file

  **Joe Lorkowski and Vladik Kreinovich, "Fuzzy Logic Ideas Can Help
  in Explaining Kahneman and Tversky's Empirical Decision Weights",
  Proceedings of the 4th World Conference on Soft Computing,
  Berkeley, California, May 25-27, 2014, pp. 285-289.

  **Joe Lorkowski and Vladik Kreinovich, "How Much For an Interval? a
  Set? a Twin Set? a p-Box? A Kaucher Interval? Towards an
  Economics-Motivated Approach to Decision Making Under
  Uncertainty", Proceedings of the 16th GAMM-IMACS International
  Symposium on Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and
  Verified Numerical Computation SCAN'2014, Wuerzburg, Germany,
  September 21-26, 2014, pp. 66-76.
  pdf file

  **Joe Lorkowski and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to Gauge Unknown
  Unknowns: A Possible Theoretical Explanation of the Usual Safety
  Factor of 2", Mathematical Structures and Modeling, 2014, Vol.
  32, pp. 49-52.

  **Joe Lorkowski and Vladik Kreinovich, "Interval and Symmetry
  Approaches to Uncertainty - Pioneered by Wiener - Help Explain
  Seemingly Irrational Human Behavior: A Case Study", Proceedings
  of the 2014 Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy
  Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2014, Boston, Massachusetts,
  June 24-26, 2014.

  **Joe Lorkowski and Vladik Kreinovich, "Likert-type fuzzy
  uncertainty from a traditional decision making viewpoint: how
  symmetry helps explain human decision making (including seemingly
  irrational behavior)", Applied and Computational Mathematics,
  2014, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 275-298.

  **Joe Lorkowski, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Sergei
  Soloviev, "How Design Quality Improves with Increasing
  Computational Abilities: General Formulas and Case Study of
  Aircraft Fuel Efficiency", Proceedings of the International
  Symposium on Management Engineering ISME'2014, Kitakyushu, Japan,
  July 27-30, 2014, pp. 33-35.

  **Joshua McKee, **Joe Lorkowski, and Thavatchai Ngamsantivong, "Note on
  Fair Price under Interval Uncertainty", Journal of Uncertain
  Systems, 2014, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 186-189.
  pdf file

  **Andres Ortiz and Vladik Kreinovich, "Using Symmetries (Beyond
  Geometric Symmetries) in Chemical Computations: Computing
  Parameters of Multiple Binding Sites", Symmetry, 2014, Vol. 6,
  pp. 90-102.
  file in pdf

  **Paden Portillo, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Towards
  an Efficient Bisection of Ellipsoids", In: Martine Ceberio and
  Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), Constraint Programming and Decision
  Making, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014, pp. 137-142.
  pdf file

  **Carlos Ramirez, **Reinaldo Sanchez, Vladik Kreinovich, and Miguel
  Argaez, "Square root of x^2 + mu is the Most Computationally Efficient
  Smooth Approximation to |x|: a Proof", Journal of Uncertain
  Systems, 2014, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 205-210.
  file in pdf

  **Karen Richart, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "r-Bounded
  Fuzzy Measures are Equivalent to epsilon-Possibility
  Measures", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on
  Systems, Man, and Cybernetics SMC'2014, San Diego, California,
  October 5-8, 2014, pp. 1229-1234.

  **Beverly Rivera, **Irbis Gallegos, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to
  Assign Weights to Different Factors in Vulnerability Analysis:
  Towards a Justification of a Heuristic Technique", Mathematical
  Structures and Modelling, 2014, Vol. 30, pp. 87-98.

  **Beverly Rivera, **Francisco Zapata, and Vladik Kreinovich, "From
  Numerical Probabilities to Linguistic Probabilities: A Theoretical
  Justification of Empirical Granules Used in Risk Management",
  Applied Mathematical Sciences, 2014, Vol. 8, No. 144, pp.
  7195-7200.
  file in pdf

  **Beverly Rivera, **Francisco Zapata, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Granularity Explains Empirical Factor-of-Three Relation Between
  Probabilities of Pulmonary Embolism in Different Patient
  Categories", Mathematical Structures and Modeling, 2014, Vol. 32,
  pp. 130-135.
  file in pdf

  **Christian Servin and Vladik Kreinovich, "Images are Easier to
  Restore than 1-D Signals: A Theoretical Explanation of a
  Surprising Empirical Phenomenon", Journal of Uncertain Systems,
  2014, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 211-215.

  **Uram Anibal Sosa Aguirre, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Why Curvature in L-Curve: Combining Soft Constraints", In:
  Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.), Constraint
  Programming and Decision Making, Springer Verlag, Berlin,
  Heidelberg, 2014, pp. 175-180.
  pdf file

  Francisco Zapata, **Luis Gutierrez, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to
  Faster Test a Device for Different Combinations of Parameters",
  Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2014, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 233-238.
  file in pdf

2013

  **Melaku Bogale, "Modeling The Human Gait Phases Using Granular
  Computing", PhD Dissertation, University of Texas at El Paso, 2013

  **Joshua Day, **Ali Jalal-Kamali, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Computing
  Covariance and Correlation in Optimally Privacy-Protected
  Statistical Databases: Feasible Algorithms", Proceedings of 3rd
  World Conference on Soft Computing, San Antonio, December 15-18,
  2013, pp. 373-382.
  pdf file

  **Ali Jalal-Kamali and Vladik Kreinovich, "Estimating Correlation
  under Interval Uncertainty", Mechanical Systems and Signal
  Processing, 2013, Vol. 37, pp. 43-53.

  **Ali Jalal-Kamali and Vladik Kreinovich, "Estimating Third Central
  Moment C_3 for Privacy Case under Interval and Fuzzy
  Uncertainty", Proceedings of the Joint World Congress of the
  International Fuzzy Systems Association and Annual Conference of
  the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society
  IFSA/NAFIPS'2013, Edmonton, Canada, June 24-28, 2013, pp. 454-459.
  pdf file

  Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, **Ariel Garcia, **Felipe Jovel,
  **Luis Torres Escobedo, and Thavatchai Ngamsantivong, "Computing
  with Words: Towards a New Tuple-Based Formalization", Proceedings
  of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and
  Cybernetics IEEE SMC'2013, Manchester, UK, October 13-16, 2013,
  pp. 344-349.

  Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, **Jorge Y. Cabrera, **Mario
  Gutierrez, and Thavatchai Ngamsantivong, "A Symmetry-Based
  Approach to Selecting Membership Functions and Its Relation to
  Chemical Kinetics", Proceedings of the IEEE International
  Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics IEEE SMC'2013,
  Manchester, UK, October 13-16, 2013, pp. 339-343.

  Vladik Kreinovich and **Andres Ortiz, "Towards a Better
  Understanding of Space-Time Causality: Kolmogorov Complexity and
  Causality as a Matter of Degree", Proceedings of the Joint World
  Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association and Annual
  Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing
  Society IFSA/NAFIPS'2013, Edmonton, Canada, June 24-28, 2013, pp.
  1349-1353.
  pdf file

  **Marketa Krmelova, **Martin Trnecka, Vladik Kreinovich, and Berlin
  Wu, "How to Distinguish True Dependence from Varying
  Independence?", Journal of Intelligent Technologies and Applied
  Statistics, 2013, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 339-351.

  **Joe Lorkowski and Vladik Kreinovich, "Likert-Scale Fuzzy
  Uncertainty from a Traditional Decision Making Viewpoint: It
  Incorporates Both Subjective Probabilities and Utility
  Information", Proceedings of the Joint World Congress of the
  International Fuzzy Systems Association and Annual Conference of
  the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society
  IFSA/NAFIPS'2013, Edmonton, Canada, June 24-28, 2013, pp. 525-530.

  **Joe Lorkowski and **Martin Trnecka, "Similarity Approach to
  Defining Basic Level of Concepts Explained from the Utility
  Viewpoint", Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop
  on Constraints Programming and Decision Making CoProd'2013,
  El Paso, Texas, November 1, 2013, pp. 17-21.
  pdf file

  **Jaime Nava, "Tropical (Idempotent) Algebras as a Way to
  Optimize Fuzzy Control", International Journal of Innovative
  Management, Information & Production (IJIMIP), 2013, Vol. 4,
  No. 1, pp. 72-87.
  File in pdf

  **Jaime Nava, "1 - x Is the Only Polynomial Fuzzy Negation
  Operation", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2013, Vol. 7, No. 3,
  pp. 179-180.
  pdf file

  **Jaime Nava, **Aline Jaimes, and Craig Tweedie, "How to Gauge
  Random Error in Eddy Covariance Measurements", Journal of
  Uncertain Systems, 2013, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 181-185.
  pdf file

  Thavatchai Ngamsantivong and **Nitaya Buntao, "Yager's
  Combination of Probabilistic and Possibilistic Knowledge:
  Beyond t-Norms", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2013, Vol. 7,
  No. 3, pp. 186-189.
  pdf file

  **Omar Ochoa, "Model Fusion: A New Approach to Processing
  Heterogenous Data", Master's Thesis, University of Texas at El
  Paso, 2013.
  file in pdf

  **Omar Ochoa, Aaron Velasco, and Christian Servin, "Towards
  Model Fusion in Geophysics: How to Estimate Accuracy of
  Different Models", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2013, Vol. 7,
  No. 3, pp. 190-197.
  pdf file

  **Andres Ortiz, "Derivation of Hill's Equation from Scale
  Invariance", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2013, Vol. 7, No. 3,
  pp. 198-202.
  pdf file

  **Andres Ortiz and Vladik Kreinovich, "Full Superposition Principle
  Is Inconsistent with Non-Deterministic Versions of Quantum
  Physics", Cybernetics and Physics, 2013, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp.
  37-40.

  **Enrique Portillo, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Towards
  Discrete Interval, Set, and Fuzzy Computations", Proceedings of
  the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
  IEEE SMC'2013, Manchester, UK, October 13-16, 2013, pp. 322-327.

  **Carlos Ramirez, Vladik Kreinovich, and Miguel Argaez, "Why
  l^1 Is a Good Approximation to l^0: A Geometric
  Explanation", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2013, Vol. 7, No. 3,
  pp. 203-207.
  pdf file

  **Reinaldo Sanchez, **Christian Servin, and Miguel Argaez,
  "Sparse Fuzzy Techniques Improve Machine Learning", Proceedings
  of the Joint World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems
  Association and Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy
  Information Processing Society IFSA/NAFIPS'2013, Edmonton,
  Canada, June 24-28, 2013, pp. 531-535.
  pdf file

  **Christian Servin, "Propagation of Interval and Probabilistic
  Uncertainty in Cyberinfrastructure-Related Data Processing
  and Data Fusion", PhD Dissertation, University of Texas at El Paso,
  2013.
  file in pdf

  **Christian Servin, Martine Ceberio, **Aline Jaimes, Craig Tweedie,
  and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to Describe and Propagate Uncertainty
  When Processing Time Series: Metrological and Computational
  Challenges, with Potential Applications to Environmental
  Studies", In: Shyi-Ming Chen and Witold Pedrycz (eds.), Time
  Series Analysis, Modeling and Applications: A Computational
  Intelligence Perspective, Springer Verlag, 2013, pp. 279-299.
  pdf file

  **Christian Servin, **Aline Jaimes, Craig Tweedie, Aaron Velasco, **Omar
  Ochoa, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to Gauge Accuracy of
  Measurements and of Expert Estimates: Beyond Normal
  Distributions", Proceedings of 3rd World Conference on Soft
  Computing, San Antonio, December 15-18, 2013, pp. 339-346.
  pdf file

  G. Xiang, S. Ferson, L. Ginzburg, L. Longpre, **E. Mayorga, and
  O. Kosheleva, "Data Anonymization that Leads to the Most
  Accurate Estimates of Statistical Characteristics:
  Fuzzy-Motivated Approach", Proceedings of the Joint World
  Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association and
  Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information
  Processing Society IFSA/NAFIPS'2013, Edmonton, Canada,
  June 24-28, 2013, pp. 611-616.
  pdf file

  **Francisco Zapata, "How to Define Distance in Terms of Kinematic
  Metric and/or Other Physical Quantities", Mathematical
  Structures and Modelling, 2013, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 35-42.
  pdf file

  **Francisco Zapata and **Luis Gutierrez, "How to Faster Test a Device
  for Different Combinations of Parameters", Proceedings of the
  Sixth International Workshop on Constraints Programming and
  Decision Making CoProd'2013, El Paso, Texas, November 1, 2013,
  pp. 40-44.
  pdf file

  **Francisco Zapata and Olga Kosheleva, "Possible and Necessary
  Orders, Equivalences, etc.: From Modal Logic to Modal
  Mathematics", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2013, Vol. 7, No. 3,
  pp. 208-218.
  pdf file

  **Francisco Zapata, Vladik Kreinovich, Cliff Joslyn, and Emilie
  Hogan, "Orders on Intervals Over Partially Ordered Sets:
  Extending Allen's Algebra and Interval Graph Results", Soft
  Computing, 2013, Vol. 17, No. 8, pp. 1379-1391.

  **Francisco Zapata, Ricardo Pineda, and Martine Ceberio, "How to
  Generate Worst-Case Scenarios When Testing Already Deployed
  Systems Against Unexpected Situations", Proceedings of the
  Joint World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems
  Association and Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy
  Information Processing Society IFSA/NAFIPS'2013, Edmonton,
  Canada, June 24-28, 2013, pp. 617-622.
  pdf file

2012

  **Murad Alaqtash, Thompson Sarkodie-Gyan, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Assessment of Functional Impairment in Human Locomotion: A
  Fuzzy-Motivated Approach", Proceedings of the 2012 Annual
  Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing
  Society NAFIPS'2012, Berkeley, California, August 6-8, 2012.

  **Nitaya Buntao and Vladik Kreinovich, "Uniqueness of
  Reconstruction for Yager's t-Norm Combination of Probabilistic and
  Possibilistic Knowledge", International Journal of Intelligence
  Systems, 2012, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 16-22.
  pdf file

  **Rolando Cardenas and Martine Ceberio, "Efficient Geophysical
  Technique of Vertical Line Elements as a Natural Consequence of
  General Constraints Techniques", Journal of Uncertain Systems,
  2012, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 86-88.
  File in pdf

  **Chris Cuellar, **Evan Longpre, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why L^2
  Topology in Quantum Physics", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2012,
  Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 92-99.

  Van Nam Huynh, **L. Octavio Lerma, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Kansei
  Engineering: Towards Optimal Set of Designs", International
  Journal of Innovative Management, Information & Production
  (IJIMIP), 2012, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 49-53.

  **Don Jackson and Olga Kosheleva, "A New Answer to Pauli's
  Question: Almost All Quantum States Can Be Uniquely Determined
  by Measuring Location and Momentum", Journal of Uncertain
  Systems, 2012, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 100-103.
  File in pdf

  **Aline Jaimes, Craig Tweedie, Vladik Kreinovich, and Martine
  Ceberio, "Scale-Invariant Approach to Multi-Criterion
  Optimization under Uncertainty, with Applications to Optimal
  Sensor Placement, in Particular, to Sensor Placement in
  Environmental Research", International Journal of Reliability and
  Safety, 2012, Vol. 6, No. 1-3, pp. 188-203.
  file in pdf

  **Ali Jalal-Kamali, "Estimating Correlation under Interval and
  Fuzzy Uncertainty: Case of Hierarchical Estimation",
  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American
  Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2012,
  Berkeley, California, August 6-8, 2012.
  File in pdf

  **Ali Jalal-Kamali, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Constraint Optimization: From Efficient Computation of What Can
  Be Achieved to Efficient Computation of a Way to Achieve The
  Corresponding Optimum", Proceedings of the Fifth International
  Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision Making CoProD'12,
  Novosibirsk, Russia, September 23, 2012.

  **Ali Jalal-Kamali, **Ondrej Nebesky, **Michael H. Durcholz, Vladik
  Kreinovich, and Luc Longpre, "Towards a "Generic" Notion of
  Genericity: From "Typical" and "Random" to Meager, Shy,
  etc.", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2012, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp.
  104-113.

  Olga Kosheleva and **Francisco Zapata, "Kinematic Spaces and de
  Vries Algebras: Towards Possible Physical Meaning of de Vries
  Algebras", Mathematical Structures and Modeling, 2012, Vol. 25,
  pp. 91-99.
  pdf file

  Vladik Kreinovich, **Nitaya Buntao, and Olga Kosheleva, "Optimizing
  Computer Representation and Computer Processing of Epistemic
  Uncertainty for Risk-Informed Decision Making: Finances etc.",
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Probabilistic
  Safety Assessment and Management / European Safety and Reliability
  PSAM'11/ESREL'12, Helsinki, Finland, June 25-29, 2012.

  V. Kreinovich, **C. Jacob, D. Dubois, J. Cardoso, and M. Ceberio,
  "Failure Analysis of a Complex System Based on Partial
  Information about Subsystems, with Potential Applications to
  Aircraft Maintenance", Applied and Computational Mathematics,
  2012, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 165-179.

  Vladik Kreinovich and **Jaime Nava, "I-Complexity and Discrete
  Derivative of Logarithms: A Symmetry-Based Explanation", Journal
  of Uncertain Systems, 2012, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 118-121.

  Vladik Kreinovich and **Andres Ortiz, "If Energy Is Not Preserved,
  Then Planck's Constant Is No Longer a Constant: A Theorem",
  Mathematical Structures and Modeling, 2012, Vol. 26, pp. 57-63.
  pdf file

  Hans-Peter Kunzi, **Francisco Zapata, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "When Is the Busemann Product a Lattice? A Relation Between
  Metric Spaces and Corresponding Space-Time Models", Applied
  Mathematical Sciences, 2012, Vol. 6, No. 66, pp. 3267-3276.
  pdf file

  **Jaime Nava, "A New Justification for Weighted
  Average Aggregation in Fuzzy Techniques", Journal of
  Uncertain Systems, 2012, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 84-85.
  File in pdf

  **Jaime Nava, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Why Bernstein
  Polynomials Are Better: Fuzzy-Inspired Justification",
  Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational
  Intelligence WCCI'2012, Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012, pp.
  1986-1991.

  **Jaime Nava and Vladik Kreinovich, "Orthogonal Bases Are the Best:
  A Theorem Justifying Bruno Apolloni's Heuristic Neural Network
  Idea", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2012, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp.
  122-127.

  **Jaime Nava and Vladik Kreinovich, "A Simple Physics-Motivated
  Equivalent Reformulation of P=NP that Makes This Equality
  (Slightly) More Plausible", Cybernetics and Physics, 2012, Vol.
  1, No. 4, pp. 287-291.
  file in pdf

  **Jaime Nava and Vladik Kreinovich, "Towards Interval Techniques
  for Model Validation", Computing, 2012, Vol. 94, No. 2, pp.
  257-269.

  **Jaime Nava and Vladik Kreinovich, "Towards Symmetry-Based
  Explanation of (Approximate) Shapes of Alpha-Helices and
  Beta-Sheets (and Beta-Barrels) in Protein Structure", Symmetry,
  2012, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 15-25.

  **Omar Ochoa, Aaron A. Velasco, **Christian Servin, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Model Fusion under Probabilistic and Interval
  Uncertainty, with Application to Earth Sciences", International
  Journal of Reliability and Safety, 2012, Vol. 6, No. 1-3, pp.
  167-187.

  **Christian Servin, "Propagation Of Interval and Probabilistic
  Uncertainty in Cyberinfrastructure-Related Data Processing and
  Data Fusion", Master's Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso,
  2012.
  file in pdf

  **Christian Servin, Van-Nam Huyhn, and Yoshiteru Nakamori,
  "Semi-Heuristic Target-Based Fuzzy Decision Procedures: Towards
  a New Interval Justification", Proceedings of the Annual
  Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing
  Society NAFIPS'2012, Berkeley, California, August 6-8, 2012.
  File in pdf

  **Francisco Zapata, "Partial Orders for Representing Uncertainty,
  Causality, and Decision Making: General Properties, Operations,
  and Algorithms", PhD Dissertation, University of Texas at El Paso,
  2012.
  file in pdf

  **Francisco Zapata, "Modal Intervals as a New Logical
  Interpretation of the Usual Lattice Order Between Interval
  Truth Values", Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the
  North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2012,
  Berkeley, California, August 6-8, 2012.
  File in pdf

  **Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Karen Villaverde, "How to
  Tell When a Product of Two Partially Ordered Spaces Has a
  Certain Property?", Journal of Uncertain Systems,
  2012, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 152-160.
  pdf file

  **Francisco Zapata and Vladik Kreinovich, "Reconstructing an Open
  Order from Its Closure, with Applications to Space-Time Physics
  and to Logic", Studia Logica, 2012, Vol. 100, No. 1-2, pp.
  419-435.
  File in pdf

2011

  **Samuel Bravo and **Jaime Nava, "Mamdani Approach to fuzzy
  control, logical approach, what else?", Proceedings of the 30th
  Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information
  Processing Society NAFIPS'2011, El Paso, Texas,
  March 18-20, 2011.
  File in pdf

  **Nitaya Buntao, "Estimating parameters of Pareto distribution
  under interval and fuzzy uncertainty", Proceedings of the
  30th Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information
  Processing Society NAFIPS'2011, El Paso, Texas,
  March 18-20, 2011.
  File in pdf

  **Nitaya Buntao and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to Combine
  Probabilistic and Possibilistic (Expert) Knowledge: Uniqueness of
  Reconstruction in Yager's (Product) Approach", International
  Journal of Innovative Management, Information & Production
  (IJIMIP), 2011, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1-8.
  pdf file

  **Nitaya Buntao and Vladik Kreinovich, "Measures of Deviation (and
  Dependence) for Heavy-Tailed Distributions and their Estimation
  under Interval and Fuzzy Uncertainty", In: Ronald R. Yager, Marek
  Z. Reformat, Shahnaz N. Shahbazova, and Sergei Ovchinnikov (eds.),
  Proceedings of the World Conference on Soft Computing, San
  Francisco, CA, May 23-26, 2011.

  Carlos Ferregut, **F. Joshua Campos, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Reducing over-conservative expert failure rate estimates in
  the presence of limited data: a new probabilistic/fuzzy
  approach", Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the
  North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2011,
  El Paso, Texas, March 18-20, 2011.

  **Eric Gutierrez and Vladik Kreinovich, "Fundamental physical
  equations can be derived by applying fuzzy methodology to
  informal physical ideas", Proceedings of the 30th Annual
  Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing
  Society NAFIPS'2011, El Paso, Texas, March 18-20, 2011.
  pdf file

  **Jesus E. Hernandez and **Jaime Nava, "Least sensitive (most
  robust) fuzzy 'exclusive or' operations", Proceedings of
  the 30th Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy
  Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2011, El Paso, Texas,
  March 18-20, 2011.
  File in pdf

  **Christelle Jacob, Didier Dubois, Janette Cardoso, Martine Ceberio,
  and Vladik Kreinovich, "Estimating Probability of Failure of a
  Complex System Based on Partial Information about Subsystems and
  Components, with Potential Applications to Aircraft Maintenance",
  Proceedings of the International Workshop on Soft Computing
  Applications and Knowledge Discovery SCAKD'2011, Moscow, Russia,
  June 25, 2011, pp. 30-41.

  **Ali Jalal-Kamali, "Estimating Statistical Characteristics Under
  Interval Uncertainty and Constraints: Mean, Variance,
  Covariance, and Correlation", Master's Thesis, University of Texas
  at El Paso, 2011.
  file in pdf

  **Ali Jalal-Kamali, Vladik Kreinovich, and Luc Longpre,
  "Estimating Covariance for Privacy Case under Interval (and
  Fuzzy) Uncertainty", In: Ronald R. Yager, Marek Z. Reformat,
  Shahnaz N. Shahbazova, and Sergei Ovchinnikov (eds.), Proceedings
  of the World Conference on Soft Computing, San Francisco, CA, May
  23-26, 2011.
  pdf file

  **Ali Jalal-Kamali, Luc Longpre, and Misha Koshelev,
  "Estimating mean under interval uncertainty and variance
  constraint", Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the
  North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society
  NAFIPS'2011, El Paso, Texas, March 18-20, 2011.
  File in pdf

  Chris Kiekintveld, Vladik Kreinovich, and **Octavio Lerma,
  "Optimizing Trajectories for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
  Patrolling the Border", In: Ronald R. Yager, Marek Z. Reformat,
  Shahnaz N. Shahbazova, and Sergei Ovchinnikov (eds.), Proceedings
  of the World Conference on Soft Computing, San Francisco, CA, May
  23-26, 2011.

  Chris Kiekintveld and **Octavio Lerma, "Towards optimal
  placement of bio-weapon detectors", Proceedings of the
  30th Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information
  Processing Society NAFIPS'2011, El Paso, Texas,
  March 18-20, 2011.
  File in pdf

  Misha Koshelev, **Ali Jalal-Kamali, and Luc Longpre, "Estimating
  Sample Mean under Interval Uncertainty and Constraint on Sample
  Variance", International Journal of Approximate Reasoning,
  2011, Vol. 52, No. 8, pp. 1136-1146.
  File in pdf

  Misha Koshelev, **Octavio Lerma, and Craig Tweedie, "Towards
  Optimal Few-Parametric Representation of Spatial Variation:
  Geometric Approach and Environmental Applications",
  Geombinatorics, 2011, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 15-24.
  File in pdf

  Vladik Kreinovich, **Christelle Jacob, Didier Dubois, Janette
  Cardoso, Martine Ceberio, and Ildar Batyrshin, "Estimating
  Probability of Failure of a Complex System Based on Inexact
  Information about Subsystems and Components, with Potential
  Applications to Aircraft Maintenance", In:
  I. Batyrshin and G. Sidorov (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th
  Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  MICAI'2011, Puebla, Mexico, November 26 - December 4, 2011,
  Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 7905,
  pp. 70-81.

  **Octavio Lerma, **Eric Gutierrez, Chris Kiekintveld, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Towards Optimal Knowledge Processing: From
  Centralization Through Cyberinsfrastructure to Cloud Computing",
  International Journal of Innovative Management, Information &
  Production (IJIMIP), 2011, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 67-72.

  **Octavio Lerma, Vladik Kreinovich, and Christopher Kiekintveld,
  "Linear-Time Resource Allocation in Security Games with Identical
  Fully Protective Resources", Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on
  Applied Adversarial Reasoning and Risk Modeling AARM'11, San
  Francisco, California, August 7, 2011.

  **Octavio Lerma, Craig Tweedie, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Towards
  optimal sensor placement in multi-zone measurements", Proceedings
  of the 30th Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy
  Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2011, El Paso, Texas, March
  18-20, 2011.

  **Sio-Long Lo and **Gang Xiang, "Computing the range of
  variance-to-mean ratio under interval and fuzzy uncertainty",
  Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the North
  American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2011,
  El Paso, Texas, March 18-20, 2011.
  File in pdf

  Luc Longpre, **Christian Servin, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Quantum
  Computation Techniques for Gauging Reliability of Interval and
  Fuzzy Data", International Journal of General Systems, 2011, Vol.
  40, No. 1, pp. 99-109.
  File in pdf

  **Joe Lorkowski, "From single to double use expressions, with
  applications to parametric interval linear systems: on
  computational complexity of fuzzy and interval computations",
  Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the North American
  Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2011,
  El Paso, Texas, March 18-20, 2011.
  File in pdf

  **Jaime Nava, "Towards Chemical Applications of
  Dempster-Shafer-Type Approach: Case of Variant Ligands",
  Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the North American
  Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2011}, El Paso,
  Texas, March 18-20, 2011.
  File in pdf

  **Jaime Nava, Juan Ferret, Vladik Kreinovich, **Gloria Berumen, **Sandra
  Griffin, and **Edgar Padilla, "Why Feynman Path Integration?",
  Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2011, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 102-110.

  **Jaime Nava and Vladik Kreinovich, "Equivalence of Gian-Carlo Rota
  Poset Approach and Taylor Series Approach Extended to Variant
  Ligands", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2011, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp.
  111-118.

  **Omar Ochoa, Aaron Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Fusing
  Continuous and Discrete Data, on the Example of Merging Seismic
  and Gravity Models in Geophysics", Proceedings of the 30th Annual
  Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing
  Society NAFIPS'2011, El Paso, Texas, March 18-20, 2011.

  **Paden Portillo, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Towards
  an Efficient Bisection of Ellipsoids", Proceedings of
  the ITEA Live-Virtual-Constructive Conference "Test and
  Evaluation", El Paso, Texas, January 24-27, 2011.
  pdf file

  **Joaquin Reyna, "From program synthesis to optimal program
  synthesis", Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the
  North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2011,
  El Paso, Texas, March 18-20, 2011.
  File in pdf

  **Christian Servin, "Testing shock absorbers: towards a faster
  parallelizable algorithm", Proceedings of the 30th Annual
  Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing
  Society NAFIPS'2011, El Paso, Texas, March 18-20, 2011.
  File in pdf

  **Jan Sliwka, Luc Jaulin, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Processing Interval Sensor Data in the Presence of Outliers,
  with Potential Applications to Localizing Underwater Robots",
  Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems,
  Man, and Cybernetics SMC'2011, Anchorage, Alaska, October 9-12,
  2011, pp. 2330-2337.

  **Uram Anibal Sosa Aguirre, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Why Curvature in L-Curve: Combining Soft Constraints",
  Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Constraint
  Programming and Decision Making CoProD'11, El Paso, Texas, March
  17, 2011.

  **Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Karen Villaverde,
  "How to Tell When a Product of Two Partially Ordered Spaces
  Has a Certain Property: General Results with Application to
  Fuzzy Logic", Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the
  North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2011,
  El Paso, Texas, March 18-20, 2011.
  File in pdf

  **Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Karen Villaverde,
  "Product of Partially Ordered Sets (Posets), with Potential
  Applications to Uncertainty Logic and Space-Time Geometry",
  International Journal of Innovative Management, Information &
  Production (IJIMIP), 2011, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 10-28.
  File in pdf

2010

  **Nitaya Buntao, Narunchara Katemee, and Vladik Kreinovich, "A
  Possible Way to Avoid Heat Death", Journal of Uncertain Systems,
  2010, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 250-256.

  **Aline Jaimes, Craig Tweedie, Tanja Magoc, Vladik Kreinovich,
  and Martine Ceberio, "Multi-Objective Optimization under
  Positivity Constraints, with a Meteorological Example",
  Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Computational
  Intelligence WCCI'2010, Barcelona, Spain, July 18-23, 2010, pp.
  2355-2361.

  **Aline Jaimes, Craig Tweedie, Tanja Mago\v c, Vladik Kreinovich,
  and Martine Ceberio, "Optimal Sensor Placement in Environmental
  Research: Designing a Sensor Network under Uncertainty", In:
  Michael Beer, Rafi L. Muhanna, and Robert L. Mullen (Eds.),
  Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Reliable
  Engineering Computing REC'2010, Singapore, March 3-5, 2010, pp.
  255-267.

  **Aline Jaimes, Craig Tweedy, Tanja Magoc, Vladik Kreinovich, and
  Martine Ceberio, "Selecting the Best Location for a
  Meteorological Tower: A Case Study of Multi-Objective Constraint
  Optimization", Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2010, Vol. 4, No. 4,
  pp. 261-269.

  Vladik Kreinovich, **Jaime Nava, Rodrigo Romero, **Julio Olaya, Aaron
  Velasco, and Kate C. Miller, "Spatial Resolution for Processing
  Seismic Data: Type-2 Methods for Finding the Relevant Granular
  Structure", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
  Granular Computing GrC'2010, Silicon Valley, USA,
  August 14-16, 2010.

  **Jaime Nava, Vladik Kreinovich, Guillermo Restrepo, and Douglas J.
  Klein, "Discrete Taylor Series as a Simple Way to Predict
  Properties of Chemical Substances like Benzenes and Cubanes",
  Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2010, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 270-290.

  **Omar Ochoa, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to
  Describe Spatial Resolution: An Approach Similar to the Central
  Limit Theorem", Applied Mathematical Sciences, 2010, Vol. 4, No.
  63, pp. 3153-3160.

  **Omar Ochoa, Aaron A. Velasco, Christian Servin, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Model Fusion under Probabilistic and Interval
  Uncertainty, with Application to Earth Sciences", In: Michael
  Beer, Rafi L. Muhanna, and Robert L. Mullen (Eds.), Proceedings of
  the 4th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing
  REC'2010, Singapore, March 3-5, 2010, pp. 81-100.

2009

  Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin, *Esteban Gamez, Vladik Kreinovich
  and Olga Kosheleva, "Intelligence Techniques Are Needed to Further Enhance the
  Advantage of Groups with Diversity in Problem Solving",
  Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and
  Applications HIMA'2009,
  Nashville, Tennessee, March 30-April 2, 2009.

  Ruey L. Cheu, Hung T. Nguyen, **Tanja Magoc, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Logit Discrete Choice Model: A New Distribution-Free
  Justification", Soft Computing, 2009, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp.
  133-137.
  pdf file

  **Aline Jaimes, Craig Tweedy, **Tanja Magoc, Vladik Kreinovich, and
  Martine Ceberio, "Selecting the Best Location for a
  Meteorological Tower: A Case Study of Multi-Objective Constraint
  Optimization", In: Martine Ceberio (ed.), Abstracts of the Second
  Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision Making CoProD'09,
  El Paso, Texas, November 9-10, 2009, pp. 56-60.

  **Tanja Magoc and Vladik Kreinovich, "Empirical Formulas for
  Economic Fluctuations: Towards A New Justification", Proceedings
  of the 28th North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society
  Annual Conference NAFIPS'09, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 14-17, 2009.

  **Tanja Magoc and Vladik Kreinovich, "A New Simplified
  Derivation of Nash Bargaining Solution", Applied Mathematical
  Sciences, 2009, Vol. 3, No. 22, pp. 1097-1101.

  **Tanja Magoc and Vladik Kreinovich, "A Paradox of Altruism: How
  Caring about Future Generations Can Result in Poverty for Everyone
  (Game-Theoretic Analysis)", Applied Mathematical Sciences, 2009,
  Vol. 3, No. 22, pp. 1091-1096.
  pdf file

  **Tanja Magoc, Francois Modave, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Computational Methods for Investment Portfolio: the
  Use of Fuzzy Measures and Constraint Programming for Risk
  Management", In: Aboul-Ella Hassanien and Ajith Abraham (ed.),
  Foundations of Computational Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, 2009,
  Vol. 2, pp. 133-173.
  pdf file

  **Jaime Nava, "Towards More Reliable Extrapolation Algorithms,
  with Applications to Organic Chemistry", Master's Thesis,
  University of Texas at El Paso, 2009.
  file in pdf

  Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, **J. Esteban Gamez, Francois
  Modave, and Olga Kosheleva, "Intermediate Degrees are Needed for
  the World to be Cognizable: Towards a New Justification for Fuzzy
  Logic Ideas", In: Aboul-Ella Hassanien and Ajith Abraham (ed.),
  Foundations of Computational Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, 2009,
  Vol. 2, pp. 53-74.
  pdf file

2008

  Vladik Kreinovich, Arnold Neumaier, and **Gang Xiang, "Towards a
  Combination of Interval and Ellipsoid Uncertainty", Computational
  Technologies, 2008, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 5-16.

  Vladik Kreinovich and **Gang Xiang, "Fast Algorithms for Computing
  Statistics under Interval Uncertainty: An Overview", In: Van-Nam
  Huynh, Yoshiteru Nakamori, Hiroakira Ono, Jonathan Lawry, Vladik
  Kreinovich, and Hung T. Nguyen (eds.), Interval/Probabilistic
  Uncertainty and Non-Classical Logics, Springer-Verlag,
  Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 2008, pp. 19-31.
  pdf file

  Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, and **Gang Xiang, "Random Fuzzy
  Sets", in: Hsiao-Fan Wang (ed.), Intelligent Data Analysis:
  Developing New Methodologies Through Pattern Discovery and
  Recovery, IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2008, pp. 18-44.
  pdf file

  Sa-aat Niwitpong, Hung T. Nguyen, **Ingo Neumann, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Hypothesis testing with interval data: case of
  regulatory constraints", International Journal of Intelligent
  Technologies and Applied Statistics, 2008, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp.
  19-41.

2007

  **Roberto Araiza, "The Use of Interval-Related Expert
  Knowledge in Processing 2D and 3D Data, with an Emphasis on
  Applications to Geosciences and Biosciences", PhD Dissertation,
  University of Texas at El Paso, 2007.
  file in pdf

  **Matthew G. Averill, Kate C. Miller, G. Randy Keller, Vladik
  Kreinovich, **Roberto Araiza, and Scott A. Starks, "Using Expert
  Knowledge in Solving the Seismic Inverse Problem", International
  Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2007, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp.
  564-587.

  Martine Ceberio, Scott Ferson, Vladik Kreinovich, **Sanjeev Chopra,
  Gang Xiang, **Adrian Murguia, and **Jorge Santillan, "How To Take
  Into Account Dependence Between the Inputs: From Interval
  Computations to Constraint-Related Set Computations, with
  Potential Applications to Nuclear Safety, Bio- and Geosciences",
  Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2007, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 11-34.
  file in pdf

  Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich, **Sanjeev Chopra, Luc Longpre,
  Hung T. Nguyen, Bertram Ludascher, and Chitta Baral,
  "Interval-Type and Affine Arithmetic-Type Techniques for Handling
  Uncertainty in Expert Systems", Journal of Computational and
  Applied Mathematics, 2007, Vol. 199, No. 2, pp. 403-410.

  Scott Ferson, Lev Ginzburg, Vladik Kreinovich, and **Jorge Lopez,
  "Absolute Bounds on the Mean of Sum, Product, etc.: A
  Probabilistic Extension of Interval Arithmetic", Applied
  Mathematical Sciences, 2007, Vol. 1, No. 9, pp. 395-440.
  file in pdf

  V. Kreinovich, J. Beck, C. Ferregut, **A. Sanchez, G. R. Keller, **M.
  Averill, and S. A. Starks, "Monte-Carlo-type techniques for
  processing interval uncertainty, and their potential engineering
  applications", Reliable Computing, 2007, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp.
  25-69.

  Vladik Kreinovich, **Jan Beck, and Hung T. Nguyen, "Ellipsoids and
  Ellipsoid-Shaped Fuzzy Sets as Natural Multi-Variate
  Generalization of Intervals and Fuzzy Numbers: How to Elicit Them
  from Users, and How to Use Them in Data Processing", Information
  Sciences, 2007, Vol. 177, No. 2, pp. 388-407.

  Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, Scott A. Starks, **Kavitha
  Tupelly, Gracaliz P. Dimuro, Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa,
  and Karen Villaverde, "From Intervals to Domains: Towards a
  General Description of Validated Uncertainty, with Potential
  Applications to Geospatial and Meteorological Data", Journal of
  Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2007, Vol. 199, No. 2, pp.
  411-417.
  pdf file

  Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre, Scott A. Starks, **Gang Xiang, **Jan
  Beck, **Raj Kandathi, **Asis Nayak, Scott Ferson, and Janos Hajagos,
  "Interval Versions of Statistical Techniques, with Applications
  to Environmental Analysis, Bioinformatics, and Privacy in
  Statistical Databases", Journal of Computational and Applied
  Mathematics, 2007, Vol. 199, No. 2, pp. 418-423.
  pdf file

  Luc Longpre, **Gang Xiang, Vladik Kreinovich, and Eric
  Freudenthal, "Interval Approach to Preserving Privacy in
  Statistical Databases: Related Challenges and Algorithms of
  Computational Statistics", In: V. Gorodetsky, I. Kotenko, and V.
  A. Skormin (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference
  "Mathematical Methods, Models and Architectures for Computer
  Networks Security" MMM-ACNS-07, St. Petersburg, Russia, September
  13-15, 2007, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007,
  Vol. CCIS-1, pp. 346-361.
  File in pdf

  Gregory B. Lush, **Esteban Gamez, and Vladik Kreinovich, "How to
  Avoid Gerrymandering: A New Algorithmic Solution", Proceedings of
  the International Conference on Information Technology InTech'07,
  Sydney, Australia, December 12-14, 2007, pp. 146-151.
  pdf file

  **Gilbert Ornelas, "Set-Valued Extensions of Fuzzy Logic:
  Classification Theorems", Master's Thesis, University of Texas at
  El Paso, 2007.
  file in pdf

  **Gilbert Ornelas and Vladik Kreinovich, "Set-Valued Extensions of
  Fuzzy Logic: Classification Theorems", In: Marek Reformat and
  Michael R. Berthold (eds.), Proceedings of the 26th International
  Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing
  Society NAFIPS'2007, San Diego, California, June 24-27, 2007, pp.
  549-553.

  **Salamah Salamah, Ann Q. Gates, Vladik Kreinovich, and Steve Roach,
  "Verification of automatically generated pattern-based LTL
  specifications", Proceedings of the 10th IEEE High Assurance
  Systems Engineering Symposium HASE'07, Dallas, Texas, November
  14-16, 2007, pp. 341-348.

  **Salamah Salamah, Ann Q. Gates, Vladik Kreinovich, and Steve Roach,
  "Using Patterns and Composite Propositions to Automate the
  Generation of Complex LTL", In: K. Namjoshi, T. Yoneda, T.
  Higashino, and Y. Okamura (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th
  International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification
  and Analysis ATVA'2007, Tokyo, Japan, October 22-25, 2007,
  Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007, Vol. 4762, pp.
  533-542.

  **Salamah Salamah, Vladik Kreinovich, and Ann Q. Gates, "Generating
  Linear Temporal Logic Formulas for Pattern-Based Specifications",
  Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Software
  Engineering and Knowledge Engineering SEKE'07, Boston,
  Massachusetts, July 9-11, 2007, pp. 422-427.

  **C. G. Schiek, **R. Araiza, J. M. Hurtado, A. A. Velasco, V.
  Kreinovich, and V. Sinyansky, "Images with Uncertainty: Efficient
  Algorithms for Shift, Rotation, Scaling, and Registration, and
  Their Applications to Geosciences", In: Mike Nachtegael, Dietrich
  Van der Weken, Etienne E. Kerre, and Wilfried Philips (eds.), Soft
  Computing in Image Processing: Recent Advances, Springer Verlag,
  2007, pp. 35-64.
  pdf file

  John Symons, *Julio C. Urenda, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Towards a
  General Description of Physical Invariance in Category Theory",
  Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2007, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 201-205.

  **J. Ivan Vargas, "Fast Algorithms for Computing Odd Moments in
  Statistical Analysis of Privacy-Related Interval Data",  Master's
  Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso, 2007.
  pdf file

  **Gang Xiang, "Fast Algorithms for Computing Statistics under
  Interval Uncertainty, with Applications to Computer Science and to
  Electrical and Computer Engineering", PhD Dissertation, University
  of Texas at El Paso, 2007.
  file in pdf

  **Gang Xiang, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Computing
  Population Variance and Entropy under Interval Uncertainty:
  Linear-Time Algorithms", Reliable Computing, 2007, Vol. 13, No.
  6, pp. 467-488.

  **Gang Xiang and Vladik Kreinovich, "Estimating Variance under
  Interval and Fuzzy Uncertainty: Case of Hierarchical Estimation",
  In: Patricia Melin, Oscar Castillo, Luis T. Aguilar, Janusz
  Kacprzyk, and Witold Pedrycz (eds.), Foundations of Fuzzy Logic
  and Soft Computing, Proceedings of the World Congress of the
  International Fuzzy Systems Association IFSA'2007, Cancun, Mexico,
  June 18-21, 2007, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial
  Intelligence, 2007, Vol. 4529, pp. 3-12.

  **Gang Xiang and Vladik Kreinovich, "Fast Algorithms for Computing
  Statistics Under Interval and Fuzzy Uncertainty, and Their
  Applications", Proceedings of the International Conference on
  Fuzzy Mathematics and Its Applications, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra,
  India, January 27-29, 2007.

  **Gang Xiang, Vladik Kreinovich, and Scott Ferson, "Fitting a
  Normal Distribution to Interval and Fuzzy Data", In: Marek
  Reformat and Michael R. Berthold (eds.), Proceedings of the 26th
  International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information
  Processing Society NAFIPS'2007, San Diego, California, June 24-27,
  2007, pp. 560-565.

2006

  Richard Alo, Francois Modave, Vladik Kreinovich, **David
  Herrera, and **Xiaojing Wang, "Bilinear Models from System Approach
  Justified for Classification, with Potential Applications to
  Bioinformatics", Proceedings of the Second International
  Conference on Fuzzy Sets and Soft Computing in Economics and
  Finance FSSCEF'2006, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 28-July 1, 2006,
  pp. 55-62.

  Martine Ceberio, Scott Ferson, Vladik Kreinovich, **Sanjeev Chopra,
  **Gang Xiang, **Adrian Murguia, and **Jorge Santillan, "How to take
  into account dependence between the inputs: from interval
  computations to constraint-related set computations, with
  potential applications to nuclear safety, bio- and geosciences",
  Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Reliable
  Engineering Computing, Savannah, Georgia, February 22-24, 2006,
  pp. 127-154.

  Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich, **Gang Xiang, Scott Ferson, and
  Cliff Joslyn, "Adding Constraints to Situations When, In Addition
  to Intervals, We Also Have Partial Information about
  Probabilities", IEEE Proceedings of the 12th GAMM-IMACS
  International Symposium on Scientific Computing, Computer
  Arithmetic and Validated Numerics, Duisburg, Germany, September
  26-29, 2006.

  Martine Ceberio, **Gang Xiang, Luc Longpre, Vladik Kreinovich,
  Hung T. Nguyen, Daniel Berleant, "Two Etudes on Combining
  Probabilistic and Interval Uncertainty: Processing Correlations
  and Measuring Loss of Privacy", Proceedings of the 7th
  International Conference on Intelligent Technologies InTech'06,
  Taipei, Taiwan, December 13-15, 2006, pp. 8-17.

  **Vinod Chirayath, Luc Longpre, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Measuring
  privacy loss in statistical databases", In: H. Leung and G.
  Pighizzini (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Descriptional
  Complexity of Formal Systems DCFS 2006, Las Cruces, New Mexico,
  June 21-23, 2006, pp. 16-25.
  file in pdf

  Evgeny Dantsin, Vladik Kreinovich, Alexander Wolpert, and **Gang
  Xiang, "Population Variance under Interval Uncertainty: A New
  Algorithm", Reliable Computing, 2006, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp.
  273-280.

  Evgeny Dantsin, Alexander Wolpert, Martine Ceberio, **Gang Xiang,
  and Vladik Kreinovich, "Detecting Outliers under Interval
  Uncertainty: A New Algorithm Based on Constraint Satisfaction",
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Information
  Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based
  Systems IPMU'06, Paris, France, July 2-7, 2006, pp. 802-809.

  **Dmitriy Iourinskiy, Scott A. Starks, Vladik Kreinovich, and
  Stephen F. Smith, "Swarm intelligence: theoretical proof that
  empirical formulas are optimal", In: A. Abraham, C. Grosan, V.
  Ramos (Eds.), Stigmergic Optimization, Springer-Verlag, Berlin -
  Heidelberg, 2006, pp. 281-295.
  pdf file

  G. Randy Keller, Scott A. Starks, Aaron Velasco, **Matthew Averill,
  **Roberto Araiza, **Gang Xiang, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Towards
  combining probabilistic, interval, fuzzy uncertainty, and
  constraints: on the example of inverse problem in geophysics",
  Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Fuzzy Sets
  and Soft Computing in Economics and Finance FSSCEF'2006, St.
  Petersburg, Russia, June 28-July 1, 2006, pp. 47-54.

  Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre, Mourat
  Tchoshanov, and **Gang Xiang, "Towards Interval Techniques for
  Processing Educational Data", IEEE Proceedings of the 12th
  GAMM-IMACS International Symposium on Scientific Computing,
  Computer Arithmetic and Validated Numerics, Duisburg, Germany,
  September 26-29, 2006.

  V. Kreinovich, S. A. Starks, A. A. Velasco, **M. G. Averill, **R.
  Araiza, **G. Xiang, and G. R. Keller, "Towards Combining
  Probabilistic, Interval, Fuzzy Uncertainty, and Constraints: An
  Example Using the Inverse Problem in Geophysics", IEEE
  Proceedings of the 12th GAMM-IMACS International Symposium on
  Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic and Validated Numerics,
  Duisburg, Germany, September 26-29, 2006.

  Vladik Kreinovich, **Gang Xiang, and Scott Ferson, "Computing Mean
  and Variance Under Dempster-Shafer Uncertainty: Towards Faster
  Algorithms", International Journal of Approximate Reasoning,
  2006, Vol. 42, pp. 212-227.

  V. Kreinovich, **G. Xiang, S. A. Starks, L. Longpre, M. Ceberio,
  **R. Araiza, **J. Beck, **R. Kandathi, **A. Nayak, **R. Torres, and J.
  Hajagos, "Towards combining probabilistic and interval
  uncertainty in engineering calculations: algorithms for computing
  statistics under interval uncertainty, and their computational
  complexity", Reliable Computing, 2006, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp.
  471-501.

  Carlos Ferregut, Jan Beck, **Araceli Sanchez, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Economics of Engineering Design under Interval (and Fuzzy)
  Uncertainty: Case Study of Building Design", Proceedings of the
  Second International Conference on Fuzzy Sets and Soft Computing
  in Economics and Finance FSSCEF'2006, St. Petersburg, Russia, June
  28-July 1, 2006, pp. 39-46.

  Jerry M. Mendel, **Hongwei Wu, Vladik Kreinovich, and **Gang Xiang,
  "Fast Computation of Centroids for Constant-Width Interval-Valued
  Fuzzy Sets", Proceedings of the 25th International Conference of
  the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society
  NAFIPS'2006, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 3-6, 2006, pp.
  621-626.

  Rafi Muhanna, Vladik Kreinovich, Pavel Solin, Jack Chessa,
  **Roberto Araiza, and **Gang Xiang, "Interval Finite Element Methods:
  New Directions", Proceedings of the Second International Workshop
  on Reliable Engineering Computing, Savannah, Georgia, February
  22-24, 2006, pp. 229-243.

  Michael Orshansky, Wei-Shen Wang, **Gang Xiang, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Interval-Based Robust Statistical Techniques for
  Non-Negative Convex Functions, with Application to Timing Analysis
  of Computer Chips", Proceedings of the Second International
  Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing, Savannah, Georgia,
  February 22-24, 2006, pp. 197-212.

2005

  **Matthew G. Averill, Kate C. Miller, G. Randy Keller, Vladik
  Kreinovich, **Roberto Araiza, and Scott A. Starks, "Using Expert
  Knowledge in Solving the Seismic Inverse Problem", Proceedings of
  the 24th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy
  Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
  June 22-25, 2005, pp. 310-314.

  **Matthew G. Averill, **Gang Xiang, Vladik Kreinovich, G. Randy
  Keller, Scott A. Starks, Patrick S. Debroux, and James Boehm,
  "How to Reconstruct the Original Shape of a Radar Signal?",
  Proceedings of the 24th International Conference of the North
  American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2005, Ann
  Arbor, Michigan, June 22-25, 2005, pp. 717-721.

  S. D. Cabrera, **K. Iyer, **G. Xiang, and V. Kreinovich, "On Inverse
  Halftoning: Computational Complexity and Interval Computations",
  Proceedings of the 39th Conference on Information Sciences and
  Systems CISS'2005, John Hopkins University, March 16-18, 2005,
  paper 164.

  Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich, **Sanjeev Chopra, and Bertram
  Ludascher, "Taylor Model-Type Techniques for Handling
  Uncertainty in Expert Systems, with Potential Applications to
  Geoinformatics", Proceedings of the 17th World Congress of the
  International Association for Mathematics and Computers in
  Simulation IMACS'2005, Paris, France, July 11-15, 2005.

  **Sanjeev Chopra, "Affine arithmetic-type
  techniques for handling uncertainty in expert systems", Master's
  Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso, 2005.
  file in pdf

  Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre, **Praveen Patangay, Scott Ferson,
  and Lev Ginzburg, "Outlier Detection Under Interval Uncertainty:
  Algorithmic Solvability and Computational Complexity", Reliable
  Computing, 2005, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 59-76.

  Vladik Kreinovich, **Gang Xiang, and Scott Ferson, "How the Concept
  of Information as Average Number of `Yes-No' Questions (Bits) Can
  Be Extended to Intervals, P-Boxes, and more General Uncertainty",
  Proceedings of the 24th International Conference of the North
  American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2005, Ann
  Arbor, Michigan, June 22-25, 2005, pp. 80-85.

  Emil Platon, **Kavitha Tupelly, Vladik Kreinovich, Scott A. Starks,
  and Karen Villaverde, "Exact Bounds for Interval and Fuzzy
  Functions Under Monotonicity Constraints, with Potential
  Applications to Biostratigraphy", Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE
  International Conference on Fuzzy Systems FUZZ-IEEE'2005, Reno,
  Nevada, May 22-25, 2005, pp. 891-896.

  **Kavitha Tupelly, Vladik Kreinovich, and Karen Villaverde,
  "Checking if There Exists a Monotonic Function That Is Consistent
  with the Measurements: An Efficient Algorithm", Reliable
  Computing, 2005, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 291-312.

2004

  **Joseph E Adidhela, "Using FFT-based Data Processing Techniques to
  Characterize Asphaltic Concrete Mixtures", Master's Thesis,
  University of Texas at El Paso, 2004.

  R. Aldouri, G. R. Keller, A. Gates, **J. Rasillo, L. Salayandia, V.
  Kreinovich, J. Seeley, P. Taylor, and S. Holloway, "GEON:
  Geophysical data add the 3rd dimension in geospatial studies",
  Proceedings of the ESRI International User Conference 2004, San
  Diego, California, August 9-13, 2004, Paper 1898.

  **Jan Beck, "Data Processing under a Combination of Interval and
  Probabilistic Uncertainty and Its Application to Earth and
  Environmental Studies and Engineering", PhD Dissertation,
  University of Texas at El Paso, 2004.

  P. Debroux, J. Boehm, F. Modave, V. Kreinovich, **G. Xiang, **J. Beck,
  **K. Tupelly, **R. Kandathi, L. Longpre, and K. Villaverde, "Using
  1-D radar observations to detect a space explosion core among the
  explosion fragments: sequential and distributed algorithms",
  Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop
  DSP'04, Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico, August 1-4, 2004, pp.
  273-277.

  **Raj Kandathi, "Estimating Covariance under Interval Uncertainty in
  Privacy-Protected Statistical Databases", Master's Thesis,
  University of Texas at El Paso, 2004.
  pdf file

  V. Kreinovich, **J. Beck, C. Ferregut, **A. Sanchez, G. R. Keller, M.
  Averill, and S. A. Starks, "Monte-Carlo-type techniques for
  processing interval uncertainty, and their engineering
  applications", Proceedings of the Workshop on Reliable
  Engineering Computing, Savannah, Georgia, September 15-17, 2004,
  pp. 139-160.
  pdf file

  **Jose Rodrigo Mares, Roberto Osegueda, **Nagaswaroopa Kaukuri, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "Geometric approach to detecting and locating
  cracks in thin plates by Lamb wave reflection: case of moving
  transducer", In: Tribikram Kundu (ed.), Health Monitoring and
  Smart Nondestructive Evaluation of Structural and Biological
  Systems III, Proceedings of the SPIE/International Society for
  Optical Engineering, Vol. 5394, San Diego, CA, March 14-18, 2004,
  pp. 385-398.

  **Bharat C. Mulupuru, Vladik Kreinovich, and Roberto Osegueda,
  "Interval Approach to Phase Measurements Can Lead to Arbitrarily
  Complex Sets - A Theorem and Ways Around It", Numerical
  Algorithms, 2004, Vol. 37, pp. 285-299.

  **Asis Nayak, "Outlier detection under interval uncertainty in
  privacy-protected statistical databases", Master Project,
  University of Texas at El Paso, 2004.
  pdf file

  Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, and **Gang Xiang, "Foundations
  of Statistical Processing of Set-Valued Data: Towards Efficient
  Algorithms", Proceedings of the Fifth International
  Conference on Intelligent Technologies InTech'04,
  Houston, Texas, December 2-4, 2004.

  Roberto Osegueda, G. Randy Keller, Scott A. Starks, **Roberto
  Araiza, Dmitry Bizyaev, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Towards a General
  Methodology for Designing Sub-Noise Measurement Procedures",
  Proceedings of the 10th IMEKO TC7 International Symposium on
  Advances of Measurement Science, St. Petersburg, Russia, June
  30-July 2, 2004, Vol. 1, pp. 59-64.

  S. A. Starks, V. Kreinovich, L. Longpre, M. Ceberio, **G. Xiang,
  **R. Araiza, **J. Beck, **R. Kandathi, **A. Nayak, and **R. Torres,
  "Towards combining probabilistic and interval uncertainty in
  engineering calculations", Proceedings of the Workshop on
  Reliable Engineering Computing, Savannah, Georgia, September
  15-17, 2004, pp. 193-213.

  Scott A. Starks, Soheil Nazarian, Vladik Kreinovich, **Joseph
  Adidhela, and **Roberto Araiza, "Using FFT-Based Data Processing
  Techniques to Characterize Asphaltic Concrete Mixtures",
  Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop
  DSP'04, Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico, August 1-4, 2004, pp.
  241-245.
  pdf file

  **Roberto Torres, G. Randy Keller, Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre,
  and Scott A. Starks, "Eliminating Duplicates Under Interval and
  Fuzzy Uncertainty: An Asymptotically Optimal Algorithm and Its
  Geospatial Applications", Reliable Computing, 2004, Vol. 10, No.
  5, pp. 401-422.

  **Kavitha Tupelly, "Checking if There Exists a Monotonic Function that
  is Consistent with the Measurement Results", Master's Thesis,
  University of Texas at El Paso, 2004.

  **Gang Xiang, Scott A. Starks, Vladik Kreinovich, and Luc Longpre,
  "New Algorithms for Statistical Analysis of Interval Data",
  Proceedings of the Workshop on State-of-the-Art in Scientific
  Computing PARA'04, Lyngby, Denmark, June 20-23, 2004,
  Vol. 1, pp. 123-129.
  extended version in
  Jack Dongarra, Kaj Madsen, and Jerzy Wasniewski (eds.),
  PARA'04 Workshop on State-of-the-Art in Scientific Computing,
  Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
  2005, Vol. 3732, pp. 189-196.

  **Dong Zhang, "Optimality under Uncertainty and its Application to
  Automatic Non-Destructive Testing of Concrete", Master's Thesis,
  University of Texas at El Paso, 2004.

2003

  **Fariba Ansari, "Determination of dynamic elastic constants of
  transversely isotropic materials using computer programs", PhD
  Dissertation, University of Texas at El Paso, 2003.

  **Fariba Ansari, William Durrer, Soheil Nazarian, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Determination of Properties of Composite Materials
  from the Lamb Wave Propagation: Probabilistic, Interval, and Fuzzy
  Approaches", Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference of
  the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society
  NAFIPS'2003, Chicago, Illinois, July 24-26, 2003, pp. 420-425.

  **Roberto Araiza, "Optimal FFT-Based Algorithms for Referencing
  Multi-Spectral Images", Master's Thesis, University of Texas at
  El Paso, 2003.

  **Cynthia Campos, G. Randy Keller, Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre,
  Francois Modave, Scott A. Starks, and **Roberto Torres, "The Use of
  Fuzzy Measures as a Data Fusion Tool in Geographic Information
  Systems: Case Study", Proceedings of the 22nd International
  Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing
  Society NAFIPS'2003, Chicago, Illinois, July 24-26, 2003,
  pp. 365-370.

  **Sanjaya Das, "Search engines for XML-based websites", Master's
  Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso, 2003.

  **Carlos de la Mora, Piotr Wojciechowski, Vladik Kreinovich, Scott
  A. Starks, Paul Tanenbaum, and Alexander Kuzminykh, "Robust
  Methodology for Characterizing System Response to Damage: A
  Subjective (Fuzzy) Partial Ordered Modification of the Traditional
  Utility-Probability Scheme", Proceedings of the 22nd International
  Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing
  Society NAFIPS'2003, Chicago, Illinois, July 24-26, 2003,
  pp. 413-419.

  Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre, **Praveen Patangay, Scott Ferson,
  and Lev Ginzburg, "Outlier Detection Under Interval Uncertainty:
  Algorithmic Solvability and Computational Complexity", In: Ivan
  Lirkov, Svetozar Margenov, Jerzy Wasniewski, and Plamen Yalamov
  (eds.), Large-Scale Scientific Computing, Proceedings of the 4-th
  International Conference LSSC'2003, Sozopol, Bulgaria, June 4-8,
  2003, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2004, Vol. 2907,
  pp. 238-245.

  Vladik Kreinovich, **Praveen Patangay, Luc Longpre, Scott A.
  Starks, **Cynthia Campos, Scott Ferson, and Lev Ginzburg, "Outlier
  Detection Under Interval and Fuzzy Uncertainty: Algorithmic
  Solvability and Computational Complexity", Proceedings of the 22nd
  International Conference of the
    North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2003,
  Chicago, Illinois, July 24-26, 2003, pp. 401-406.

  **Mark Martinez, Luc Longpre, Vladik Kreinovich, Scott A. Starks,
  and Hung T. Nguyen, "Fast Quantum Algorithms for Handling
  Probabilistic, Interval, and Fuzzy Uncertainty", Proceedings of
  the 22nd International Conference of the North American Fuzzy
  Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2003,
  Chicago, Illinois, July 24-26, 2003, pp. 395-400.

  Roberto Osegueda, Vladik Kreinovich, Soheil Nazarian and **Enrique
  Roldan, "Detection of cracks at rivet holes in thin plates using
  Lamb-wave scanning", In: Tribikram Kundu (ed.), Smart
  Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring of Structural and
  Biological Systems II, Proceedings of the SPIE/International
  Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 5047, San Diego, CA, March
  3-5, 2003, pp. 55-66.

  Roberto A. Osegueda, **Seetharami R. Seelam, **Bharat Mulupuru, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "Statistical and Dempster-Shafer Techniques in
  Testing Structural Integrity of Aerospace Structures", In:
  Tribikram Kundu (ed.), Smart Nondestructive Evaluation and Health
  Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems II, Proceedings of
  the SPIE/International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 5047,
  San Diego, CA, March 3-5, 2003, pp. 140-151.

  **Praveen Patangay, "Outlier Detection Under Interval Uncertainty:
  Algorithmic Solvability and Computational Complexity", Master's
  Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso, 2003.

  Paul J. Tanenbaum, **Carlos de la Mora, Piotr Wojciechowski, **Olga
  Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, Scott A. Starks, and Alexandr
  Kuzminykh, "Robust Methodology for Characterizing System Response
  to Damage: Approach Based on Partial Order", In: Ivan Lirkov,
  Svetozar Margenov, Jerzy Wasniewski, and Plamen Yalamov (eds.),
  Large-Scale Scientific Computing, Proceedings of the 4-th
  International Conference LSSc'2003, Sozopol, Bulgaria, June 4-8,
  2003, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2004, Vol. 2907,
  pp. 276-283.

  **Roberto Torres, "Eliminating Duplicates under Interval and
  Fuzzy Uncertainty: An Asymptotically Optimal Algorithm and
  its Geospatial Applications", Master's Thesis, University of Texas
  at El Paso, 2003.

  **Hongjie Xie, **Nigel Hicks, G. Randy Keller, **Haitao Huang, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "An IDL/ENVI implementation of the FFT based
  algorithm for automatic image registration", Computers and
  Geosciences, 2003, Vol. 29, No. 8, pp. 1045-1055.

2002

  **Roberto Araiza, **Hongjie Xie, Scott A. Starks, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Automatic Referencing of Multi-Spectral Images",
  Proceedings of the IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and
  Interpretation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, April 7-9, 2002, pp.
  21-25.

  Carlos Ferregut, Roberto A. Osegueda, **Yohans Mendoza, Vladik
  Kreinovich, and Timothy J. Ross, "Aircraft Integrity and
  Reliability", In: Jane Booker, Jerry Parkinson, and Timothy J.
  Ross (eds.), Combined Fuzzy Logic and Probability Applications,
  SIAM, Philadelphia, 2002, pp. 219-242.
  pdf file

  Scott Ferson, Lev Ginzburg, Vladik Kreinovich, and **Monica Aviles,
  "Exact Bounds on Sample Variance of Interval Data", Extended
  Abstracts of the 2002 SIAM Workshop on Validated Computing,
  Toronto, Canada, May 23-25, 2002, pp. 67-69.

  Scott Ferson, Lev Ginzburg, Vladik Kreinovich, and **Jorge Lopez,
  "Absolute Bounds on the Mean of Sum, Product, etc.: A
  Probabilistic Extension of Interval Arithmetic", Extended
  Abstracts of the 2002 SIAM Workshop on Validated Computing,
  Toronto, Canada, May 23-25, 2002, pp. 70-72.

  **Dima Iourinski, Scott A. Starks, Vladik Kreinovich, and Stephen F.
  Smith, "Swarm intelligence: theoretical proof that empirical
  techniques are optimal", Proceedings of the 2002 World Automation
  Congress WAC'2002, Orlando, Florida, June 9-13, 2002, pp. 107-112.

  **Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Hung T. Nguyen, "On the
  Optimal Choice of Quality Metric in Image Compression",
  Proceedings of the IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and
  Interpretation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, April 7-9, 2002, pp.
  116-120.

  Vladik Kreinovich, Scott A. Starks, **Olga Kosheleva, and Andrei
  Finkelstein, "Open-ended configurations of radio telescopes:
  towards optimal design", Proceedings of the 2002 World Automation
  Congress WAC'2002, Orlando, Florida, June 9-13, 2002, pp. 101-106.

  Vladik Kreinovich and **Dima Iourinski, "Was there Satan's face in
  the World Trade Center fire? A geometric analysis",
  Geombinatorics, 2002, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 69-75.

  **Jesus Martinez, "Towards more realistic (e.g. non-associative)
  `and'- and `or'-operations in fuzzy logic", Master's Thesis,
  University of Texas at El Paso, 2002.

  **Bharat C. Mulupuru, "Differentiating between angular and
  smooth shapes in noisy computer images, on the example of
  non-destructive testing of aerospace structures", Master's Thesis,
  University of Texas at El Paso, 2002.

  Roberto Osegueda, Vladik Kreinovich, **Lakshmi Potluri, and Richard
  Alo, "Non-Destructive Testing of Aerospace Structures:
  Granularity and Data Mining Approach", Proceedings of
  FUZZ-IEEE'2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 12-17, 2002, Vol. 1, pp.
  685-689.

  **Kiran Patel, "Non-Binary fuzzy logical operations: why they are
  needed in expert systems and how they are related to traditional
  binary logic", Master's Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso,
  2002.

  **Lakshmi Potluri, "Correlation techniques for information fusion",
  Master's Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso, 2002.

  **Rajesh Saini, "Kolmogorov complexity for probabilistic computations:
  towards resource bounded Kolmogorov complexity for quantum computing",
  Master's Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso, 2002.
  file in pdf

  **Seetharami R. Seelam, "Intelligent outlier detection and information
  fusion methods for noisy images, with applications to
  structural integrity of aerospace structures", Master's Thesis,
  University of Texas at El Paso, 2002.

  **Sreenath Srikrishnan, "Referencing noisy images: complexity
  of the problem, analysis and efficient implementation of the
  Fast Fourier approach", Master's Thesis, University of Texas at
  El Paso, 2002.

  Scott A. Starks, Soheil Nazarian, Vladik Kreinovich, and **Joseph
  Adidhela, "Use of Satellite Image Referencing Algorithms to
  Characterize Asphaltic Concrete Mixtures", Proceedings of
  FUZZ-IEEE'2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 12-17, 2002, Vol. 1, pp.
  536-540.

  **Raul Trejo and Vladik Kreinovich, "Computing the Shape of the
  Image of a Multi-Linear Mapping Is Possible But Computationally
  Intractable: Theorems", International Journal of General Systems,
  2002, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 17-27.

  **Raul Trejo, Vladik Kreinovich, I. R. Goodman, **Jesus Martinez,
  and **Reginaldo Gonzalez, "A Realistic (Non-Associative) Logic And
  a Possible Explanations of 7 +-2 Law", International Journal of
  Approximate Reasoning, 2002, Vol. 29, pp. 235-266.
  file in pdf

  I. B. Turksen, **A. Esper, **K. Patel, S. A. Starks, and V.
  Kreinovich, "Selecting a Fuzzy Logic Operation from the DNF-CNF
  Interval: How Practical Are the Resulting Operations?",
  Proceedings of the 21st International Conference of the North
  American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2002, New
  Orleans, Louisiana, June 27-29, 2002, pp. 28-33.

2001

  Richard Alo, **Raul Trejo, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Can
  Computers Do the Job of Nobelist Physicists? Planck Formula
  Revisited", Proc. of the 2001 International Conference on
  Information Technology for the New Millennium IConIT'2001,
  Bangkok, Thailand, May 28-30, 2001, pp. 284-295.

  Chitta Baral, Vladik Kreinovich, and **Raul A. Trejo,
  "Computational Complexity of Planning with Temporal Goals",
  Proceedings of the International Joint Conferences in Artificial
  Intelligence IJCAI'01, Seattle, Washington, August 4-10, 2001, pp.
  509-514.

  **Jan Beck, "An optimal combination of interval computations and
  traditional linearization, with an application to gravity databases",
  Master's Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso, 2001.

  **Jan Beck, Vladik Kreinovich, and Brian Penn, "Geombinatoric
  aspects of processing large images and large spatial databases",
  Geombinatorics, 2001, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 6-12.

  **Stephen Gibson, Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre, Brian Penn, and
  Scott A. Starks, "Intelligent Mining in Image Databases, With
  Applications to Satellite Imaging and to Web Search", In: A.
  Kandel, H. Bunke, and M. Last (eds.), Data Mining and
  Computational Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001, pp.
  309-336.
  pdf file

  I. R. Goodman, **Raul A. Trejo, Vladik Kreinovich, **Jesus Martinez,
  and **Reginaldo Gonzalez, "An even more realistic (non-associative)
  interval logic and its relation to psychology of human reasoning",
  Proceedings of the Joint 9th World Congress of the International
  Fuzzy Systems Association and 20th International Conference of the
  North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society IFSA/NAFIPS
  2001, Vancouver, Canada, July 25-28, 2001, pp. 1586-1591.

  **Jesus Martinez, **Leopoldo Macias, **Ammar Esper, **Jesus Chaparro, **Vick
  Alvarado, Scott A. Starks, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Towards more
  realistic (e.g., non-associative) and- and or-operations in fuzzy
  logic", Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
  Conference, Tucson, Arizona, October 7-10, 2001, pp. 2187-2192.

  Nhu Nguyen, Hung T. Nguyen, Berlin Wu, Vladik Kreinovich, and
  **Guoqing Liu, "Chu Spaces: Towards New Foundations for Fuzzy Logic
  and Fuzzy Control, with Applications to Information Flow on the
  World Wide Web", Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence
  and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII), 2001, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp.
  149-156.

  Roberto A. Osegueda, ^^Seetharami R. Seelam, **Ana C. Holguin, Vladik
  Kreinovich, and Chin-Wang Tao, "Statistical and Dempster-Shafer
  Techniques in Testing Structural Integrity of Aerospace
  Structures", International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness,
  Knowledge-Based Systems (IJUFKS), 2001, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp.
  749-758.

  **Sreenath Srikrishnan, **Roberto Araiza, **Hongjie Xie, Scott A.
  Starks, and Vladik Kreinovich, "Automatic referencing of
  satellite and radar images", Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Systems,
  Man, and Cybernetics Conference, Tucson, Arizona, October 7-10,
  2001, pp. 2176-2180.

  Scott A. Starks, **Dima Iourinski, and Vladik Kreinovich, "2-D
  analogues of Allen interval algebra for image analysis: towards
  justification", Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Systems, Man, and
  Cybernetics Conference, Tucson, Arizona, October 7-10, 2001, pp.
  2182-2186.

  **Raul A. Trejo, "Interval computation methods and probabilistic
  methods for planning and plan checking under uncertainty and
  incomplete information", PhD Dissertation, University of Texas at
  El Paso, 2001.

  **Raul A. Trejo, **Joel Galloway, **Charanjiv Sachar, Vladik
  Kreinovich, Chitta Baral, and **Le Chi Tuan, "From Planning to
  Searching for the Shortest Plan: An Optimal Transition",
  International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness, Knowledge-Based
  Systems (IJUFKS), 2001, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 827-838.

  **Raul Trejo and Vladik Kreinovich, "Error Estimations for
  Indirect Measurements: Randomized vs. Deterministic Algorithms For
  'Black-Box' Programs", In: Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Panos Pardalos,
  John Reif, and Jose Rolim (eds.), Handbook on Randomized Computing,
  Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2001, pp. 673-729.
  pdf file

  Edward Vidal, Luc Longpre, Vladik Kreinovich, and **Huang Haitao,
  "Geombinatorics of Smart Dust", Geombinatorics, 2001, Vol. 11,
  No. 2, pp. 54-58.

  **Qian Wen, Ann Q. Gates, Jan Beck, Vladik Kreinovich, and G. Randy
  Keller, "Towards automatic detection of erroneous measurement
  results in a gravity database", Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE
  Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference, Tucson, Arizona, October
  7-10, 2001, pp. 2170-2175.

  Keith Worden, Roberto Osegueda, Carlos Ferregut, Soheil Nazarian,
  **Debra L. George, *8Mary J. George, Vladik Kreinovich, &&Olga Kosheleva
  and Sergio Cabrera, "Interval Methods in Non-Destructive Testing
  of Material Structures", Reliable Computing, 2001, Vol. 7, No. 4,
  pp. 341-352.
  file in pdf

2000

  Chitta Baral, Vladik Kreinovich, and **Raul Trejo, "Computational
  Complexity of Planning and Approximate Planning in the Presence of
  Incompleteness", Artificial Intelligence, 2000, Vol. 122, pp.
  241-267.

  Chitta Baral, **Le-Chi Tuan, **Raul Trejo, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Computational Complexity of Planning Based on Partial
  Information About The System's Present and Past States", In: J.
  Lloyd et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the First International
  Conference on Computational Logic CL'2000, London, July 24-28,
  2000, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol.
  1861, pp. 882-896.

  Laszlo T. Koczy, Vladik Kreinovich, **Yohans Mendoza, Hung T.
  Nguyen, and Harry Schulte, "Towards Mathematical Foundations of
  Information Retrieval: Dependence of Website's Relevance on the
  Number of Occurrences of a Queried Word", Proceedings of the Joint
  Conferences in Information Sciences JCIS'2000, Atlantic City, NJ,
  February 27-March 3, 2000, Vol. I, pp. 252-255.

  **Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Yeung Yam, "On the optimal
  choice of quality metric in image compression", Proceedings of the
  International Symposium on Smart Structures and Microsystems
  (IS3M), Hong Kong, October 19-21, 2000, Paper C3-3.

  **Yohans Mendoza, "Towards mathematical foundations of information
  retrieval with application to fault detection in aerospace
  structures", Master's Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso, 2000.

  Hung T. Nguyen, **Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Liya Ding,
  "On the Optimal Choice of Quality Metric In Image Compression: A
  Soft Computing Approach", Proceedings of the Sixth International
  Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision
  ICARCV'2000, Singapore, December 5-8, 2000.

  Roberto A. Osegueda, **Seetharami R. Seelam, **Ana C. Holguin, Vladik
  Kreinovich, and Chin-Wang Tao, "Statistical and Dempster-Shafer
  Techniques in Testing Structural Integrity of Aerospace
  Structures", Proc. of International Conference on Intelligent
  Technologies, Bangkok, Thailand, December 13-15, 2000, pp.
  383-389.

  **Ivette Sierra, "Geometric foundations for the uniqueness of the
  FFT-based image mosaicking, with the application to detecting
  hidden text in web images", Master's Thesis, University of Texas at
  El Paso, 2000.

  **Raul A. Trejo, **Joel Galloway, **Charanjiv Sachar, Vladik
  Kreinovich, Chitta Baral, and Le Chi Tuan, "From Planning to
  Searching for the Shortest Plan: An Optimal Transition", Proc. of
  International Conference on Intelligent Technologies, Bangkok,
  Thailand, December 13-15, 2000, pp. 17-23.

  **Raul Trejo, Vladik Kreinovich, and Chitta Baral, "Towards
  Feasible Approach to Plan Checking Under Probabilistic
  Uncertainty: Interval Methods", Proc. of the 17th National
  Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI'2000, Austin, TX, July
  30-August 3, 2000, pp. 545-550.

  **Raul A. Trejo, Vladik Kreinovich, and Luc Longpre, "Choosing
  a Physical Model: Why Symmetries?", Bulletin of the European
  Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), 2000, Vol.
  70, pp. 159-161.

  Edward Vidal, Luc Longpre, Vladik Kreinovich, **Huang Haitao, and
  Yeung Yam, "Asymptotically optimal algorithms for weather
  applications of Smart Dust", Proceedings of the International
  Symposium on Smart Structures and Microsystems (IS3M), Hong Kong,
  October 19-21, 2000, Paper C3-2.

  **Su Wang, "A new method of selecting the optimal neural network and
  its application to non-destructive evaluation of pavements",
  Master's Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso, 2000.

  **Hongjie Xie, **Nigel Hicks, G. Randy Keller, **Haitao Huang, and
  Vladik Kreinovich, "Automatic image registration based on a FFT
  algorithm and IDL/ENVI", Proceedings of the ICORG-2000
  International Conference on Remote Sensing and GIS/GPS, Hyderabad,
  India, December 1-4, 2000, Vol. 1, pp. 397-402.

1999

  **Steve Gibson, "An optimal FFT-based algorithm for mosaicking images",
  Master's Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso, 1999.

  **Chadi Hamzo and Vladik Kreinovich, "On Average Bit Complexity of
  Interval Arithmetic", Bulletin of the European Association for
  Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), 1999, Vol. 68, pp. 153-156.
  file in pdf

  **Misha Koshelev, Vladik Kreinovich, and Luc Longpre, "Encryption
  Algorithms Made (Somewhat) More Natural (a pedagogical remark)",
  Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer
  Science (EATCS), 1999, Vol. 67, pp. 153-156.

  **Misha Koshelev, Vladik Kreinovich, and Luc Longpre, "Encryption
  Algorithms Made Natural", Inroads: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 1999,
  Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 50-51.

  **Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich, "Only Intervals Preserve
  the Invertibility of Arithmetic Operations", Reliable Computing,
  1999, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 385-394.

  **Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich, "Error estimation for
  indirect measurements: Interval computation problem is (slightly)
  harder than a similar probabilistic computational problem",
  Reliable Computing, 1999, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 81-95.

  **Murali Krishna, "Using symmetries to reduce the size of a fuzzy
  knowledge base, with an application to fault detection", Master's
  Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso, 1999.

  **Murali Krishna, Vladik Kreinovich, and Roberto Osegueda, "Fuzzy
  Logic in Non-Destructive Testing of Aerospace Structures", In:
  Jaime Ramirez-Angulo (ed.), Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE
  Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Las Cruces, New Mexico,
  August 8-11, 1999, Vol. 1, pp. 431-434.

  **Nuria Mata and Vladik Kreinovich, "NP-Hardness In Geometric
  Construction Problems With One Interval Parameter", In: Josep Vehi
  and Miquel A. Sainz (eds.), Applications of Interval Analysis to
  Systems and Control, University of Girona, Spain, 1999,
  pp. 101-114.
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  **Nuria Mata and Vladik Kreinovich, "NP-Hardness In Geometric
  Construction Problems With One Interval Parameter",
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Applications of Interval Analysis
  to Systems and Control with special emphasis on recent advances in
  Modal Interval Analysis MISC'99, Girona, Spain, February 24-26,
  1999, pp. 85-98.

  Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, and **Guoqing Liu, "Chu Spaces:
  Towards New Foundations for Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Control, with
  Applications to Information Flow on the World Wide Web",
  Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the North
  American Fuzzy Information Society NAFIPS'99, New York City, June
  10-12, 1999, pp. 766-770.

  Roberto Osegueda, **Yohans Mendoza, **Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik
  Kreinovich, "Multi-Resolution Methods in Non-Destructive Testing
  of Aerospace Structures and in Medicine", Proceedings of the 14th
  IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control/Intelligent
  Systems and Semiotics ISIC/ISAS'99, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
  September 15-17, 1999, pp. 208-212.
  file in pdf

  **Martin Schmidt, "Detecting text in web images: a complexity-based
  approach", Master's Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso, 1999.

  **Martin Schmidt, Vladik Kreinovich, and Luc Longpr{e,
  "Kolmogorov Complexity-Based Ideas for Locating Text in Web
  Images", In: Jaime Ramirez-Angulo (ed.), Proceedings of the
  1999 IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Las Cruces,
  New Mexico, August 8-11, 1999, Vol. 1, pp. 543-546.

  **Sanjeev Subbaramu, Ann Q. Gates, and Vladik Kreinovich,
  "Application of Kolmogorov Complexity to Image Processing: It Is
  Possible to Have a Better Compression, but It Is Not Possible to
  Have the Best One", Bulletin of the European Association for
  Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), 1999, Vol. 69, pp. 145-150.