CS Technical Reports
The file that you are reading contains the list of our 2014 reports. Links from this list lead to pdf files. Lists of reports from the previous years can be found by clicking on:
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Need for Data Processing Naturally Leads to Fuzzy Logic (and Neural Networks): Fuzzy Beyond Experts and Beyond Probabilities
Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, and Songsak Sriboonchitta
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-79 in pdf -
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
Joe Lorkowski and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-78 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-78b in pdf -
Every Function Computable by an Arithmetic Single Use Expression is a Ratio of Two Multi-Linear Functions: A Theorem
Joe Lorkowski, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-77 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-77a in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-77b in pdf -
When Can We Reduce Multi-Variable Range Estimation Problem to Two Fewer-Variable Problems?
Joe Lorkowski, Olga Kosheleva, Luc Longpre, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-76 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-76b in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-76c in pdf -
50 Years of Fuzzy: from Discrete to Continuous to -- Where?
Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, Olga Kosheleva, and Rujira Ouncharoen
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-75 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-75a in pdf -
Interval computations and interval-related statistical techniques: estimating uncertainty of the results of data processing and indirect measurements
Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-74 in pdf -
Among Several Successful Algorithms, Simpler Ones Usually Work Better: A Possible Explanation of an Empirical Observation
Vladik Kreinovich and Olga Kosheleva
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-73 in pdf -
Newton's Laws: What is Their Operational Meaning?
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-72 in pdf -
Minimax Portfolio Optimization under Interval Uncertainty
Meng Yuan, Xu Lin, Junzo Watada, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-71 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-71b in pdf -
Mike Loya Center for Innovation and Commerce Grand Challenge Workshop Report
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-70 in pdf -
Asymptotically Tight Algorithm for Checking Whether a Given Vector Is a Solution to a Given Interval-Quantifier Linear System
Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-69 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-69b in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-69c in pdf -
How to Gauge Unknown Unknowns: A Possible Theoretical Explanation of the Usual Safety Factor of 2
Joe Lorkowski and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-68 in pdf -
Granularity Explains Empirical Factor-of-Three Relation Between Probabilities of Pulmonary Embolism in Different Patient Categories
Beverly Rivera, Francisco Zapata, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-67 in pdf -
Examining the Consistence of Futures Margin Levels using Bivariate Extreme Value Copulas
X. Gong, H. T. Nguyen, V. Kreinovich, and S. Sriboonchitta
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-66 in pdf -
A Catalog of While Loop Specification Patterns
Aditi Barua and Yoonsik Cheon
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-65 in pdf -
Is the World Itself Fuzzy? Physical Arguments for -- and Unexpected Computational Consequences of -- Zadeh's Vision
Vladik Kreinovich and Olga Kosheleva
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-64 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-64a in pdf -
Formalizing the Informal, Precisiating the Imprecise: How Fuzzy Logic Can Help Mathematicians and Physicists by Formalizing Their Intuitive Ideas
Olga Kosheleva, Renata Reiser, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-63 in pdf -
Granularity Helps Explain Seemingly Irrational Features of Human Decision Making
Joe Lorkowski and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-62 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-62a in pdf -
From Numerical Probabilities to Linguistic Probabilities: A Theoretical Justification of Empirical Granules Used in Risk Management
Beverly Rivera, Francisco Zapata, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-61 in pdf -
Security Risk Assessment: Towards a Justification for the Security Risk Factor Table Model
Beverly Rivera, Francisco Zapata, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-60 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-60b in pdf -
Log-Periodic Power Law as a Predictor of Catastrophic Events: A New Mathematical Justification
Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, and Songsak Sriboonchitta
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-59 in pdf -
Kekule's Benzene Structure: A Case Study of Teaching Usefulness of Symmetry
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-58 in pdf -
Why Lattice-Valued Fuzzy Values? A Mathematical Justification
Rujira Ouncharoen, Vladik Kreinovich, and Hung T. Nguyen
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-57 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-57a in pdf -
Towards a Formal Description of Understandability (Causality, Pre-Requisites): From Prosorov's Phonocentric Topology to More General Interior (Closure) Structures
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-56 in pdf -
If Many Physicists Are Right and No Physical Theory Is Perfect, Then by Using Physical Observations, We Can Feasibly Solve Almost All Instances of Each NP-Complete Problem
Olga Kosheleva, Michael Zakharevich, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-55 in pdf -
Homotopy Techniques in Solving Systems of Nonlinear Equations: A Theoretical Justification of Convex Combinations
Nicholas Sun
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-54 in pdf -
How to Estimate Forecasting Quality: A System-Motivated Derivation of Symmetric Mean Absolute Percentage Error (SMAPE) and Other Similar Characteristics
Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, and Rujira Ouncharoen
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-53 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-53b in pdf -
Increased Climate Variability Is More Visible Than Global Warming: A General System-Theory Explanation
L. Octavio Lerma, Craig Tweedie, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-52 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-52a in pdf -
Using Second-Order" Probabilities to Make Maximum Entropy Approach to Copulas More Reasonable
Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, and Berlin Wu
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-51 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-51a in pdf -
How to Modify Grade Point Average (GPA) to Make It More Adequate
Joe Lorkowski, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-50 in pdf -
Towards Fast and Reliable Localization of an Underwater Object: An Interval Approach
Quentin Brefort, Luc Jaulin, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-49 in pdf -
Likert-type fuzzy uncertainty from a traditional decision making viewpoint: how symmetry helps explain human decision making (including seemingly irrational behavior)
Joe Lorkowski and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-48 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-48a in pdf -
Why Ricker Wavelets Are Successful in Processing Seismic Data: Towards a Theoretical Explanation
Afshin Gholamy and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-47 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-47b in pdf -
How to Explain the Definition of Stochastic Affiliation to Economics Students
Tonghui Wang, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-46 in pdf -
Possible Geometric Explanations for Basic Empirical Dependencies of Systems Engineering
Francisco Zapata and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-45 in pdf -
Constructive Mathematics in St. Petersburg, Russia: A (Somewhat Subjective) View from Within
Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-44 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-44a in pdf -
Observable Causality Implies Lorentz Group: Alexandrov-Zeeman-Type Theorem for Space-Time Regions
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-43 in pdf -
If We Take Into Account that Constraints Are Soft, Then Processing Constraints Becomes Algorithmically Solvable
Quentin Brefort, Luc Jaulin, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-42 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-42a in pdf -
F-Transform Enhancement of the Sampling Theorem and Reconstruction of Noisy Signals
Michal Holcapek, Irina Perfiieva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-41 in pdf -
A Simple Probabilistic Explanation of Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (tf-idf) Heuristic (and Variations Motivated by This Explanation)
Lukas Havrlant and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-40 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-40a in pdf -
From Mean and Median Income to the Most Adequate Way of Taking Inequality Into Account
Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, and Rujira Ouncharoen
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-39 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-39a in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-39b in pdf -
What If We Only Have Approximate Stochastic Dominance?
Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, and Songsak Sriboonchitta
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-38 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-38a in pdf -
Protecting patient privacy while preserving medical information for research
Gang Xiang, Jason O'Rawe, Vladik Kreinovich, Janos Hajagos, and Scott Ferson
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-37 in pdf -
How Design Quality Improves with Increasing Computational Abilities: General Formulas and Case Study of Aircraft Fuel Efficiency
Joe Lorkowski, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Sergei Soloviev
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-36 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-36c in pdf -
In category of sets and relations, it is possible to describe functions in purely category terms
Vladik Kreinovich, Martine Ceberio, and Quentin Brefort
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-35 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-35a in pdf -
How to Estimate Relative Spatial Resolution of Different Maps or Images of the Same Area?
Christian Servin, Aaron Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-34 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-34a in pdf -
How to Assign Weights to Different Factors in Vulnerability Analysis: Towards a Justification of a Heuristic Technique
Beverly Rivera, Irbis Gallegos, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-33 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-33a in pdf -
r-Bounded Fuzzy Measures are Equivalent to epsilon-Possibility Measures
Karen Richart, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-32 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-32a in pdf -
Writing Self-testing Java Classes with SelfTest
Yoonsik Cheon
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-31 in pdf -
Fuzzy intervals as foundation of metrological support for computations with inaccurate data
Konstantin K. Semenov, Gennady N. Solopchenko, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-30 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-30a in pdf -
Deep mathematical results are the ones that connect seemingly unrelated areas: towards a formal proof of Gian-Carlo Rota's thesis
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-29 in pdf -
Roadmap for Graduating Students with Expertise in the Analysis and Development of Secure Cyber-Systems
Ann Q. Gates, Salamah Salamah, and Luc Longpre
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-28 in pdf -
Fuzzy Logic Ideas Can Help in Explaining Kahneman and Tversky's Empirical Decision Weights
Joe Lorkowski and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-27 in pdf -
Wiener's Conjecture About Transformation Groups Helps Predict Which Fuzzy Techniques Work Better
Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-26 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-26a in pdf -
Towards Efficient Algorithms for Approximating a Fuzzy Relation by Fuzzy Rules: Case When "And"- and "Or"-Operation are Distributive
Christian Servin and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-25 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-25a in pdf -
Interval and Symmetry Approaches to Uncertainty -- Pioneered by Wiener -- Helps Explain Many Seemingly Irrational Human Behaviors: A Case Study
Joe Lorkowski and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-24 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-24a in pdf -
For each mathematical statement, only finitely many of its generalizations are useful: a formal proof of E. Bishop's idea
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-23 in pdf -
From Interval-Valued Probabilities to Interval-Valued Possibilities: Case Studies of Interval Computation under Constraints
Luis C. Gutierrez, Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich, Rebekah L. Gruver, Mariana Pena, Matthew J. Rister, Abraham Saldana, John Vasquez, Janelle Ybarra, and Salem Benferhat
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-22 in pdf -
Decision Making under Interval Uncertainty: What Can and What Cannot Be Computed in Linear Time and in Real Time
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-21 in pdf -
Extending OCL to Better Express UML Qualified Associations
Alla Dove, Aditi Barua and Yoonsik Cheon
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-20 in pdf -
Construction of Shear Wave Models by Applying Multi-Objective Optimization to Multiple Geophysical Data Sets
Lennox Thompson, Aaron A. Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-19 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-19a in pdf -
Inverse problems in theory and practice of measurements and metrology
Konstantin K. Semenov, Gennadi N. Solopchenko, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-18 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-18a in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-18b in pdf -
Simpler-to-Describe Cases are Often More Difficult to Prove: A Possible Explanation
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-17 in pdf -
Logic of Scientific Discovery: How Physical Induction Affects What Is Computable
Vladik Kreinovich and Olga Kosheleva
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-16 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-16a in pdf -
Dealing with Uncertainties in Computing: from Probabilistic and Interval Uncertainty to Combination of Different Types of Uncertainty
Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-15 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-15a in pdf -
Interleaving Enhances Learning: A Possible Geometric Explanation
Octavio Lerma, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-14 in pdf -
Range Estimation under Constraints is Computable Unless There Is a Discontinuity
Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-13 in pdf -
Fuzzy, Intuitionistic Fuzzy, What Next?
Vladik Kreinovich and Bui Cong Cuong
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-12 in pdf -
Fitts's Law: Towards a Geometric Explanation
Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Octavio Lerma
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-11 in pdf -
How to Compare Different Range Estimations: A Symmetry-Based Approach
O. Kosheleva and V. Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-10 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-10a in pdf -
Towards Efficient Ways of Estimating Failure Probability of Mechanical Structures Under Interval Uncertainty
M. Beer, M. De Angelis, and V. Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-09 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-09a in pdf -
From Global to Local Constraints: A Constructive Version of Bloch's Principle
Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-08 in pdf -
Towards Decision Making under Interval, Set-Valued, Fuzzy, and Z-Number Uncertainty: A Fair Price Approach
Joe Lorkowski, Rafik Aliev, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-07 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-07a in pdf -
A Feasible Algorithm for Checking n-Scissors Congruence of Polyhedra in Rd
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-06 in pdf -
Why Injecting Fine Dust into a Tornado Is More Promising Than Injecting Coarse Dust: A Geometric Explanation
Octavio Lerma, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-05 in pdf -
Diversity Is Beneficial for a Research Group: One More Quantitative Argument
Komsan Suriya, Tatcha Sudtasan, Tonghui Wang, Octavio Lerma, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-04 in pdf -
A Simple Geometric Model Provides a Possible Quantitative Explanation of the Advantages of Immediate Feedback in Student Learning
Octavio Lerma, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-03 in pdf -
How to Understand Connections Based on Big Data: From Crisp Granules (e.g., Cliques) to Flexible Granules
Ali Jalal-Kamali, M. Shahriar Hossain, and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-02 in pdf | UTEP-CS-14-02a in pdf -
Zipf's Law and 7 Plus Minus 2 Principle Lead to a Possible Explanation of Daniel's Law
Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
link to abstract | UTEP-CS-14-01 in pdf