CS Technical Reports

The file that you are reading contains the list of our 1999 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:

• Extracting Fuzzy Sparse Rule Base by Cartesian Representation and Clustering
  Yeung Yam, Vladik Kreinovich, and Hung T. Nguyen
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  UTEP-CS-99-49 in Compressed PostScript.

• Aerospace Applications of Soft Computing and Interval Computations (with an Emphasis on Simulation and Modeling)
  Scott A. Starks and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-99-48a in Compressed PostScript.

• Aerospace Applications of Soft Computing and Interval Computations (with an Emphasis on Multi-Spectral Satellite Imaging)
  Scott A. Starks and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-99-48 in Compressed PostScript.

• An Optimal FFT-Based Algorithm for Mosaicking Images, with Applications to Satellite Imaging and Web Search
  Stephen Gibson, Olga Kosheleva, Luc Longpre, Brian Penn, and Scott A. Starks
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  UTEP-CS-99-47 in Compressed PostScript.

• Towards Mathematical Foundations of Information Retrieval: Dependence of Website's Relevance on the Number of Occurrences of a Queried Word
  Laszlo T. Koczy, Vladik Kreinovich, Yohans Mendoza, Hung T. Nguyen, and Harry Schulte
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-99-46 in Compressed PostScript and in pdf.

• Range Estimation is NP-Hard for Epsilon-Square Accuracy and Feasible for Epsilon to the Power of 2-Delta
  Vladik Kreinovich
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  Original version UTEP-CS-99-45 in Compressed PostScript
  Updated version UTEP-CS-99-45a in Compressed PostScript and in pdf.

• Geombinatoric Aspects of Processing Large Images and Large Spatial Databases
  Jan Beck, Vladik Kreinovich, and Brian Penn
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  UTEP-CS-99-44 in Compressed PostScript

• Which Sensor Set is Better for Monitoring Spacecraft Subsystems? A Geometric Answer and its Probabilistic Generalization
  Matthew Barry and Vladik Kreinovich
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  Original version UTEP-CS-99-43 in Compressed PostScript
  Updated version UTEP-CS-99-43d in Compressed PostScript

• A Geometric Approach to Classification of Trash in Ginned Cotton
  Murali Siddaiah, Michael A. Lieberman, Nadipuram R. Prasad, and Vladik Kreinovich
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-99-42a in Compressed PostScript and in pdf.

• Fundamental Properties of Pair-Wise Interactions Naturally Lead to Quarks and Quark Confinement: A Theorem Motivated by Neural Universal Approximation Results
  Vladik Kreinovich
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  Original version UTEP-CS-99-41 in Compressed PostScript
  Updated version UTEP-CS-99-41a in Compressed PostScript

• A Comment on The Shape of The Solution Set for Systems of Interval Linear Equations with Dependent Coefficients
  Goetz Alefeld, Vladik Kreinovich, Guenter Mayer, and Michael Huth
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  Original version UTEP-CS-99-40 in Compressed PostScript
  Updated version UTEP-CS-99-40b in Compressed PostScript

• Complex Fuzzy Sets: Towards New Foundations
  Hung T. Nguyen, Abraham Kandel, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  Original version UTEP-CS-99-39 in Compressed PostScript
  Updated version UTEP-CS-99-39a in Compressed PostScript

• Intervals (Pairs of Fuzzy Values), Triples, etc.: Can We Thus Get an Arbitrary Ordering?
  Vladik Kreinovich and Masao Mukaidono
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  Original version UTEP-CS-99-38 in Compressed PostScript
  Updated version UTEP-CS-99-38a in Compressed PostScript

• Shadows Of Fuzzy Sets - a Natural Approach Towards Describing 2-D and Multi-D Fuzzy Uncertainty in Linguistic Terms
  Hung T. Nguyen, Berlin Wu, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  Original version UTEP-CS-99-37 in Compressed PostScript
  Updated version UTEP-CS-99-37a in Compressed PostScript

• Interval Computations as a Particular Case of a General Scheme Involving Classes of Probability Distributions
  Scott Ferson, Lev Ginzburg, Vladik Kreinovich, and Harry Schulte
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  Original version UTEP-CS-99-36a in Compressed PostScript
  Updated version UTEP-CS-99-36b in Compressed PostScript and in in pdf.

• From Interval Methods of Representing Uncertainty to a General Description of Uncertainty
  Vladik Kreinovich, Scott Ferson, Lev Ginzburg, Harry Schulte, Matthew R. Barry, and Hung T. Nguyen
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  UTEP-CS-99-36 in Compressed PostScript

• On Combining Statistical and Fuzzy Techniques: Detection of Business Cycles from Uncertain Data
  Hung T. Nguyen, Berlin Wu, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-99-35 in Compressed PostScript

• Candidate Sets for Complex Interval Arithmetic
  Juergen Wolff von Gudenberg and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-99-34 in Compressed PostScript

• From Fuzzy Values to Intuitionistic Fuzzy Values to Intuitionistic Fuzzy Intervals Etc.: Can We Get an Arbitrary Ordering?
  Vladik Kreinovich, Masao Mukaidono, and Krassimir Atanassov
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  UTEP-CS-99-33 in Compressed PostScript

• Kolmogorov Complexity-Based Ideas for Locating Text in Web Images
  Martin Schmidt, Vladik Kreinovich, and Luc Longpre
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  UTEP-CS-99-32 in Compressed PostScript

• Fuzzy Logic in Non-Destructive Testing of Aerospace Structures
  Murali Krishna, Vladik Kreinovich, and Roberto Osegueda
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  UTEP-CS-99-31 in pdf

• Neural Network Approach to Speech Pathology
  Antonio P. Salvatore, Nicole A. Thorne, and Charlotte M. Gross
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  UTEP-CS-99-30 in Compressed PostScript

• The Use of Fuzzy Measures in Pain Relief Control
  Vladik Kreinovich and Nadipuram R. Prasad
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  Original version UTEP-CS-99-29 in Compressed PostScript
  UTEP-CS-99-29b in Compressed PostScript

• Theoretical Explanation for the Empirical Probability Of Detection (POD) Curve: A Neural Network-Motivated Approach
  Yohans Mendoza and Roberto Osegueda
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  UTEP-CS-99-28 in Compressed PostScript and in pdf

• Chu Spaces - a New Approach to Describing Uncertainty in Systems
  Vladik Kreinovich, Guoqing Liu, and Hung T. Nguyen
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  UTEP-CS-99-27 in Compressed PostScript

• Automatic Concurrency in SequenceL
  Daniel E. Cooke and Vladik Kreinovich
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  Original version UTEP-CS-99-26 in Compressed PostScript
  Updated version UTEP-CS-99-26b in Compressed PostScript and in pdf.

• Fuzzy/Probability ~ Fractal/Smooth
  Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, and Berlin Wu
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-99-25 in Compressed PostScript

• A New Graph Characteristic and its Application to Numerical Computability
  Frank Harary, Vladik Kreinovich, and Luc Longpre
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  Original version UTEP-CS-99-24 in Compressed PostScript
  UTEP-CS-99-24a in Compressed PostScript

• Multi-Resolution Methods in Non-Destructive Testing of Aerospace Structures and in Medicine
  Roberto Osegueda, Yohans Mendoza, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-99-23 in Compressed PostScript and in pdf.

• Multi-Resolution Techniques in the Rules-Based Intelligent Control Systems: A Universal Approximation Result
  Yeung Yam, Hung T. Nguyen, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-99-22 in Compressed PostScript

• Chu Spaces - a New Approach to Diagnostic Information Fusion
  Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, and Berlin Wu
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  UTEP-CS-99-21 in Compressed PostScript

• On Average Bit Complexity of Interval Arithmetic
  Chadi Hamzo and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-99-20 in Compressed PostScript and in pdf.

• We Live in the Best of Possible Worlds: A Proof
  Liu Guoqing and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-99-19 in Compressed PostScript

• An Optimality Criterion for Arithmetic of Complex Sets
  Vladik Kreinovich and Juergen Wolff von Gudenberg
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  UTEP-CS-99-18 in Compressed PostScript

• Chu Spaces: Towards New Foundations for Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Control, with Applications to Information Flow on the World Wide Web
  Nhu Nguyen, Hung T. Nguyen, Berlin Wu, Vladik Kreinovich, and Guoqing Liu
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  UTEP-CS-99-17a in pdf

• A New Look at Fuzzy Theory via Chu Spaces
  Hung T. Nguyen, Berlin Wu, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-99-17 in Compressed PostScript

• From Fuzzy Models to Fuzzy Control
  Chitta Baral, Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, and Yeung Yam
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  UTEP-CS-99-16 in Compressed PostScript

• Towards Intelligent Virtual Environment for Training Medical Doctors in Surgical Pain Relief
  Richard Alo, Kenneth Alo, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-99-15 in Compressed PostScript and in pdf.

• System Reliability: A Case When Fuzzy Logic Enhances Probability Theory's Ability to Deal With Real-World Problems
  Timothy J. Ross, Carlos Ferregut, Roberto Osegueda, and Vladik Kreinovich
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-99-14 in Compressed PostScript

• Towards Faster, Smoother, and More Compact Fuzzy Approximation, with an Application to Non-Destructive Evaluation of Space Shuttle's Structural Integrity
  Yeung Yam, Roberto Osegueda and Vladik Kreinovich
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-99-13 in pdf

• Chu Spaces: Towards New Foundations for Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Control, with Applications to Information Flow on the World Wide Web
  Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, and Guoqing Liu
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-99-12 in pdf

• Arithmetic of Complex Sets: Nickel's Classical Paper Revisited from a Geometric Viewpoint
  Vladik Kreinovich and Juergen Wolff von Gudenberg
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-99-11 in pdf

• For Interval Computations, if Absolute-Accuracy Optimization is NP-Hard, then so is Relative-Accuracy Optimization
  Vladik Kreinovich
  link to abstract
  Original version UTEP-CS-99-10 in pdf
  UTEP-CS-99-10a in pdf

• Locating the Whole Pattern is Better than Locating its Pieces: A Geometric Explanation of an Empirical Phenomenon
  Scott A. Starks and Vladik Kreinovich
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-99-9 in pdf

• Why Fundamental Physical Equations are of Second Order?
  Takeshi Yamakawa and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-99-8 in PostScript and in pdf.

• Extending t-Norms Beyond [0,1]: Relevant Results of Semigroup Theory
  Vladik Kreinovich and Yeung Yam
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  UTEP-CS-99-7 in PostScript.

• Time-Bounded Kolmogorov Complexity May Help in Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
  Martin Schmidt
  link to abstract
  UTEP-CS-99-6 in PostScript.

• Beyond [0,1] to Intervals and Further: Do We Need All New Fuzzy Values?
  Yeung Yam, Masao Mukaidono, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-99-5 in PostScript.

• Intervals is All We Need: An Argument
  Masao Mukaidono, Yeung Yam, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-99-4 in PostScript.

• Why Clustering in Function Approximation? Theoretical Explanation
  Vladik Kreinovich and Yeung Yam
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  UTEP-CS-99-3 in PostScript and in pdf.

• Fuzzy Systems are Universal Approximators for a Smooth Function and its Derivatives
  Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, and Yeung Yam
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  UTEP-CS-99-2 in PostScript and in pdf.

• Computational Complexity of Planning and Approximate Planning in Presence of Incompleteness
  Chitta Baral, Vladik Kreinovich, and Raul Trejo
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  Original version UTEP-CS-99-1 in PostScript and in pdf
  1st updated version UTEP-CS-99-1b in Compressed PostScript
  2nd updated version UTEP-CS-99-1d in PostScript and in pdf.