CS Technical Reports

The file that you are reading contains the list of our 1998 reports. Links from this list lead to pdf and compressed PostScript files. Lists of reports from the previous years can be found by clicking on:

• Towards Intelligent Virtual Environment for Teaching Telemanipulation Operators: Virtual Tool Approach and its Interval-Based Justification
  L. Olac Fuentes and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-98-35 in Compressed Postscript and pdf.

• Interval Image Classification is NP-Hard
  Alejandro E. Brito and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-98-34 in Compressed Postscript and pdf.

• Towards Optimal Pain Relief: Acupuncture and Spinal Cord Stimulation
  Richard Alo, Kenneth Alo, Obinna Ilochonwu, Vladik Kreinovich, and Hoang Phuong Nguyen
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  UTEP-CS-98-33 in Compressed Postscript and pdf.

• Interval Computations, Soft Computing, and Aerospace Applications
  Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-98-32 in Compressed Postscript and pdf.

• Justification of Heuristic Methods in Data Processing Using Fuzzy Theory, with Applications to Detection of Business Cycles from Fuzzy Data
  Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, and Berlin Wu
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  UTEP-CS-98-31 in pdf.

• Towards Foundations for Traditional Oriental Medicine
  Hoang Phuong Nguyen, Scott A. Starks, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-98-30 in PostScript.

• NP-Hardness in Geometric Construction Problems with One Interval Parameter
  Nuria Mata and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-98-29 in PostScript.

• Fuzzy Justification of Heuristic Methods in Inverse Problems and in Numerical Computations, with Applications to Detection of Business Cycles from Fuzzy and Intuitionistic Fuzzy Data
  Krassimir T. Atanassov, Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, and Berlin Wu
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  UTEP-CS-98-28 in PostScript.

• From Semi-Heuristic Fuzzy Techniques to Optimal Fuzzy Methods: Mathematical Foundations and Applications
  Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-98-27 in PostScript.

• Towards Combining Fuzzy and Logic Programming Techniques
  Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, Daniel E. Cooke, Luqi, and Olga Kosheleva
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  UTEP-CS-98-26 in PostScript.

• Towards Formalization of Feasibility, Randomness, and Commonsense Implication: Kolmogorov Complexity, and the Necessity of Considering (Fuzzy) Degrees
  Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre, and Hung T. Nguyen
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  UTEP-CS-98-25 in PostScript.

• Cooperative Learning is Better: Explanation Using Dynamical Systems, Fuzzy Logic, and Geometric Symmetries
  Vladik Kreinovich, Edye Johnson-Holubec, Leonid K. Reznik, and Misha Koshelev
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  UTEP-CS-98-24 in PostScript.

• How to Describe Partially Ordered Preferences: Mathematical Foundations
  Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, and Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier
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  UTEP-CS-98-23 in Postscript, Compressed Postscript, and pdf.

• Uncertainty Representation Explains and Helps Methodology of Physics and Science in General
  Misha Koshelev, Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, and Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier
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  UTEP-CS-98-22 in Postscript, Compressed Postscript, and pdf.

• Complex Problems: Granularity is Necessary, Granularity Helps
  Oscar N. Garcia, Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre, and Hung T. Nguyen
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  UTEP-CS-98-21 in PostScript.

• Possible New Directions in Mathematical Foundations of Fuzzy Technology: A Contribution to the Mathematics of Fuzzy Theory
  Hung T. Nguyen and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-98-20 in PostScript.

• Interval Methods in Non-Destructive Testing of Material Structures
  Keith Worden, Roberto Osegueda, Carlos Ferregut, Soheil Nazarian, Debra L. George, Mary J. George, and Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva and Sergio Cabrera
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  Original version UTEP-CS-98-19 in PostScript;
  1st updated version UTEP-CS-98-19a in PostScript;
  Final version UTEP-CS-98-19b in Compressed PostScript and in pdf

• Beyond Interval Systems: What is Feasible and What is Algorithmically Solvable?
  Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-98-18 in PostScript.

• A Simplified Version of the Tomography Problem Can Help to Estimate the Errors of Indirect Measurements
  Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-98-17 in PostScript.

• Multi-Spectral Inverse Problems in Satellite Image Processing
  Scott A. Starks and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-98-16 in PostScript.

• Case Study of Non-Linear Inverse Problems: Mammography and Non-Destructive Evaluation
  Olga Kosheleva, Sergio Cabrera, Roberto Osegueda, Soheil Nazarian, Debra L. George, Mary J. George, Vladik Kreinovich, and Keith Worden
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  UTEP-CS-98-15 in PostScript.

• Kolmogorov Complexity, Statistical Regularization of Inverse Problems, and Birkhoff's Formalization Of Beauty
  Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre, and Misha Koshelev
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  UTEP-CS-98-14 in PostScript, Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Fair Division under Interval Uncertainty
  Ronald R. Yager and Vladik Kreinovich
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  Original version UTEP-CS-98-13 in PostScript;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-98-13a in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Decision Making under Interval Probabilities
  Ronald R. Yager and Vladik Kreinovich
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  Original version UTEP-CS-98-12 PostScript;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-98-12a in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Towards the Use of Aesthetics in Decision Making: Kolmogorov Complexity Formalizes Birkhoff's Idea
  Misha Koshelev, Vladik Kreinovich, and Yeung Yam
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  UTEP-CS-98-11 in PostScript.

• An Operationalistic Reformulation of Einstein's Equivalence Principle
  V. Ya. Kreinovich and R. R. Zapatrine
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  UTEP-CS-98-10 in PostScript.

• Encryption Algorithms Made (Somewhat) More Natural (A Pedagogical Remark)
  Misha Koshelev, Vladik Kreinovich, and Luc Longpre
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  UTEP-CS-98-9 in PostScript.

• Application of Kolmogorov Complexity to Image Compression: It is Possible to Have a Better Compression, but It is Not Possible to Have the Best One
  Sanjeev Subbaramu, Ann Q. Gates, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-98-8 in PostScript.

• Telemanipulation: The Virtual Tool Approach and its Interval-Based Justification
  Vladik Kreinovich and Luic Olac Fuentes
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  UTEP-CS-98-7 in Postscript and pdf.

• Run-Time Correctness Checking is Algorithmically Undecidable for Pointer Data Structures
  Mikhail Auguston, Vladik Kreinovich, and Luc Longpre
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  UTEP-CS-98-6 in PostScript.

• Ordinal Explanation of the Periodic System of Chemical Elements
  Eric R. Scerri, Vladik Kreinovich, Piotr Wojciechowski, and Ronald R. Yager
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  UTEP-CS-98-5 in PostScript.

• Human Visual Perception and Kolmogorov Complexity: Revisited
  Vladik Kreinovich and Luc Longpre
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  UTEP-CS-98-4 in PostScript and pdf.

• On Geometry of Radio Antenna Placements
  Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, Andrei M. Finkelstein, and Steven Chan
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  UTEP-CS-98-3 in PostScript.

• Decision Making Based on Satellite Images: Optimal Fuzzy Clustering Approach
  Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, Scott A. Starks, and Yeung Yam
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  UTEP-CS-98-2c in PostScript.

• Optimal Choices of Potential Functions in Fuzzy Clustering
  Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, and Yeung Yam
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  UTEP-CS-98-2 in PostScript.

• On How to Merge Sorted Lists Coming from Different Web Search Tools
  Ronald R. Yager and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-98-1 in PostScript.