CS Technical Reports

The file that you are reading contains the list of our 2001 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:

• Representation, Elicitation, and Aggregation of Uncertainty in Risk Analysis - from Traditional Probabilistic Techniques to More General, More Realistic Approaches: A Survey
  Scott Ferson and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-01-33 in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Constrained Fuzzy Arithmetic
  Vladik Kreinovich, Mirko Navara, and Zdenek Zabokrtsky
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  UTEP-CS-01-32 in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Aerospace Applications of Intervals: From Geospatial Data Processing to Fault Detection in Aerospace Structures
  Vladik Kreinovich and Scott A. Starks
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  UTEP-CS-01-31 in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Non-Associative Operations
  Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Vladik Kreinovich, and Hung T. Nguyen
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  UTEP-CS-01-30 in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Interval Mathematics: Algebraic Aspects
  Sompong Dhompongsa, Vladik Kreinovich, and Hung T. Nguyen
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  UTEP-CS-01-29 in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• A Statistical Analysis for Rule Base Reduction
  Vladik Kreinovich, Claude Langrand, and Hung T. Nguyen
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  UTEP-CS-01-28 in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Combining Fuzzy and Probabilistic Knowledge Using Belief Functions
  Vladik Kreinovich, Claude Langrand, and Hung T. Nguyen
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  UTEP-CS-01-27 in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• How to Interpret Neural Networks in Terms of Fuzzy Logic?
  Sompong Dhompongsa, Vladik Kreinovich, and Hung T. Nguyen
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  UTEP-CS-01-26 in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Interval Mathematics for Analysis of Multiresolutional Systems
  Vladik Kreinovich and Richard Alo
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  Original version UTEP-CS-01-25 in Compressed PostScript and pdf;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-01-25a in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• On Efficient Representation of Expert Knowledge by Fuzzy Logic: Towards an Optimal Combination of Granularity and Higher-Order Approaches
  Hung T. Nguyen and Vladik Kreinovich
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  Original version UTEP-CS-01-24 in Compressed PostScript and pdf;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-01-24b in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Second-Order Uncertainty as a Bridge Between Probabilistic and Fuzzy Approaches
  Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, and Luc Longpre
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  UTEP-CS-01-23 in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Towards Fusing Sophisticated Mathematical Knowledge and Informal Expert Knowledge: An Arbitrary Metric Can Be Naturally Interpreted in Fuzzy Terms
  Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, and Witold Pedrycz
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  UTEP-CS-01-22 in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Reduction to Independent Variables: From Normal DistributiontTo General Statistical Case to Fuzzy
  Mourad Oussalah, Hung T. Nguyen, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-01-21 in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Automatic Referencing of Multi-Spectral Images
  Roberto Araiza, Hongjie Xie, Scott A. Starks, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-01-20a in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Automatic Referencing of Satellite and Radar Images
  Sreenath Srikrishnan, Roberto Araiza, Hongjie Xie, Scott A. Starks, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-01-20 in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• 2-D Analogues of Allen Interval Algebra for Image Analysis: Towards Justification
  Scott A. Starks, Dima Iourinski, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-01-19 in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Towards More Realistic (e.g., Non-Associative) And- and Or-Operations in Fuzzy Logic
  Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-01-18a in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Towards More Realistic (e.g., Non-Associative) And- and Or-Operations in Fuzzy Logic
  Jesus Martinez, Leopoldo Macias, Ammar Esper, Jesus Chaparro, Vick Alvarado, Scott A. Starks, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-01-18 in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Towards Automatic Detection of Erroneous Measurement Results in a Gravity Database
  Qian Wen, Ann Q. Gates, Jan Beck, Vladik Kreinovich, and G. Randy Keller
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  UTEP-CS-01-17a in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Localized Regression Analysis as a Method for Detecting Erroneous Measurements in Geospatial Databases, with Application to Gravity Databases
  Qian Wen, Nigel Hicks, G. Randy Keller, Ann Q. Gates, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-01-17 in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Can Computers Do the Job of Nobelist Physicists? Planck Formula Revisited
  Richard Alo, Raul Trejo, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  UTEP-CS-01-16 in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Assessing the Predictive Accuracy of Complex Simulation Models
  Timothy Ross, Vladik Kreinovich, and Cliff Joslyn
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  UTEP-CS-01-15 in pdf.

• A New Derivation of Centroid Defuzzification
  Mourad Oussalah, Hung T. Nguyen, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  Original version UTEP-CS-01-14 in Compressed PostScript and pdf;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-01-14a in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Hyperbolic Approach to Fuzzy Control is Optimal
  Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, Michael Margaliot, and Gideon Langholtz
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  Original version UTEP-CS-01-13 in Compressed PostScript and pdf;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-01-13a in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Discrete (Set) Derivatives and "Algebraic" Fuzzy Logic Operations
  Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Hung T. Nguyen, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  Original version UTEP-CS-01-12 in Compressed PostScript and pdf;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-01-12a in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Logic-Motivated Choice of Fuzzy Logic Operators
  Pratit Santiprabhob, Hung T. Nguyen, Witold Pedrycz, and Vladik Kreinovich
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  Original version UTEP-CS-01-11 in Compressed PostScript and pdf;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-01-11a in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Which Truth Values in Fuzzy Logics are Definable?
  Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, and Antonio Di Nola
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  Original version UTEP-CS-01-10 in Compressed PostScript and pdf;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-01-10a in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Optimal Choice of Granularity in Commonsense Estimation: Why Half-Orders of Magnitude
  Jerry R. Hobbs and Vladik Kreinovich
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  Original version UTEP-CS-01-09 in Compressed PostScript and in pdf.
  Updated version UTEP-CS-01-09b in Compressed PostScript and in pdf.

• How to Make Sure that "~100" + 1 is ~100 in Fuzzy Arithmetic: Solution and its (Inevitable) Drawbacks
  Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, and Witold Pedrycz
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  UTEP-CS-01-08 in Compressed PostScript and in pdf.

• Why Unary and Binary Operations in Logic: General Result Motivated by Interval-Valued Logics
  Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, and I. R. Goodman
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  UTEP-CS-01-07 in Compressed PostScript and in pdf.

• On Fusion of Soft and Hard Computing: Traditional ("Hard Computing") Optimal Rescaling Techniques Simplify Fuzzy Control
  Hugh F. VanLandingham and Vladik Kreinovich
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  Original version UTEP-CS-01-06 in pdf;
  updated version UTEP-CS-01-06b in pdf.
  
• What is the Best Way to Draw a Cube? a Hypercube?
  Brian d'Auriol, Vladik Kreinovich, Bindu George, Florence Muganda, and Pramod Kumar Chikkapaiah
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  UTEP-CS-01-05 in Compressed PostScript and in pdf.

• From [0,1]-Based Logic to Interval Logic (From Known Description of All Possible [0,1]-Based Logical Operations to a Description of All Possible Interval-Based Logical Operations)
  Hung T. Nguyen and Vladik Kreinovich
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  Original version UTEP-CS-01-04 in Compressed PostScript and pdf;
  1st updated version UTEP-CS-01-04a in Compressed PostScript and pdf;
  2nd updated version UTEP-CS-01-04c in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Theoretical Justification of a Heuristic Subbox Selection Criterion
  Vladik Kreinovich and Tibor Csendes
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  Original version UTEP-CS-01-03 in Compressed PostScript and pdf;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-01-03a in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Computational Complexity of Optimization and Crude Range Testing: A New Approach Motivated by Fuzzy Optimization
  COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY OF OPTIMIZATION AND CRUDE RANGE TESTING: A NEW APPROACH MOTIVATED BY FUZZY OPTIMIZATION
  G. William Walster and Vladik Kreinovich
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  Original version UTEP-CS-01-02 in Compressed PostScript and pdf;
  1st updated version UTEP-CS-01-02a in Compressed PostScript and pdf;
  2nd updated version UTEP-CS-01-02d in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Complexity and Approximation Studies of Finding Polynomially Bounded Length Plans for Temporal Goals
  Chitta Baral, Vladik Kreinovich, Sudeshna Sarkar, Nam Tran, Raul Trejo, and Xin Zhang
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  Original version UTEP-CS-01-01e in Compressed PostScript and pdf;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-01-01f in Compressed PostScript and pdf.

• Computational Complexity of Planning with Temporal Goals
  Chitta Baral, Vladik Kreinovich, and Raul A. Trejo
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  Original version UTEP-CS-01-01 in Compressed PostScript and pdf;
  Updated version UTEP-CS-01-01a in Compressed PostScript and pdf.