19th Joint UTEP/NMSU Workshop on Mathematics, Computer Science, and Computational Sciences

University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, Texas
Saturday, November 5, 2016

Objective of the joint workshops series. The main objective of these workshops is to initiate and enhance the interaction, exchange of ideas, and possible collaboration.

History.

Objective of this workshop.

Important information: The UTEP/NMSU workshop will be held right after the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2016 (El Paso, Texas, October 31 - November 4, 2016).

Location: UTEP Campus, Chemistry and Computer Science Building CCCB, Room G.0208 on the Ground Floor

Local Organizers: Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre, and Ming-Ying Leung

Program:


   9:00- 9:05 am opening

   9:05- 9:22 am
  Mahdokht Afravi, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Decision Making Under Interval Uncertainty as a Natural
  Example of a Quandle
    slides in pdf

   9:22- 9:25 am questions and discussion

   9:25- 9:42 am
  Francisco Zapata, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Olga Kosheleva, Department of Teacher Education, UTEP
  Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  It Is Advantageous to Make a Syllabus As Precise As
  Possible: Decision-Theoretic Analysis
    slides in pdf

   9:42- 9:45 am questions and discussion

   9:45-10:02 am
  Daniel Cervantes, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Using Runestone to enable the flipping of
  analytically engaging math and programming lessons

  10:02-10:05 am questions and discussion

  10:05-10:22 am
  Philip B. Tennen, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Christopher "Topher" M. Tighe, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Eric A. Freudenthal, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Systematic Evaluation of a Vectorized
  Interpolation Kernel

  10:22-10:25 am questions and discussion

  10:25-10:40 am break

  10:40-10:57 am
  Jose Guadalupe Flores Muniz, Department of Physics and Mathematics,
     Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, San Nicolas de los Garza, Mexico
  Vyacheslav Kalashnikov, Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering
     Tecnologico de Monterrey ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico, and Department of Experimental Economics
     Central Economics and Mathematics Institute (CEMI), Moscow, Russia
  Natalya Kalashnkiova, Department of Physics and Mathematics,
     Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, San Nicolas de los Garza, Mexico, and
     Department of Computer Science, Sumy State University, Ukraine
  Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Why Gaussian and Cauchy Functions
  Are Efficient in Filled Function Method:
  A Possible Explanation
    slides in pdf
    see also

  10:57-11:00 am questions and discussions

  11:00-11:17 am
  Kimberly Kato, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  How to Assign Numerical Values to Partially Ordered
  Levels Of Confidence: Robustness Approach
    slides in pdf

  11:17-11:20 am questions and discussions

  11:20-11:37 am
  Justin R. Parra, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Olac Fuentes, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Elizabeth Anthony, Department of Geological Sciences, UTEP
  Predicting Volcanic Behavior

  11:37-11:40 am questions and discussion

  11:40-11:57 am
  Andrew Pownuk, Computational Science Program, UTEP
  Combining Interval and Probabilistic Uncertainty
  in Engineering Applications
    slides in pdf

  11:57-12:00 pm questions and discussion

  12:00-12:17 pm
  Behzad Djafari Rouhani, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
  New Results on the Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions to
  Some General Non-Homogeneous Second Order Evolution Equations

  12:17-12:20 pm questions and discussion

  12:20- 1:50 pm lunch at UTEP Union (sponsored by El Paso Chapter of IEEE)

   1:50- 3:20 pm
  Poster session

   3:20- 3:37 pm
  Emil Daniel Schwab, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
  Gabriela Schwab, El Paso Community College
  Non-Unique factorization in a Class of Non-Commutative Monoids

   3:37- 3:40 pm questions and discussion

   3:40- 3:57 pm
  Christian Servin, El Paso Community College
  Gerardo Muela, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  A Gentle Introduction to Fuzzy Logic in CS I Course:
  Using PLTL as a Vehicle to Obliquely
  Introduce the Concept of Fuzzy Logic

   3:57- 4:00 pm questions and discussion

   4:00- 4:17 pm
  Leobardo Valera, Computational Science Program, UTEP
  Martine Ceberio, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Interval Constraint Solving Techniques and Model-Order
  Reduction to Enhance the Solution of Dynamic Systems

   4:17- 4:20 pm questions and discussions

   4:20- 4:37 pm
  Baokun Li, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU,
    and Southwest University of Finance and Economics
  Mining Transaction Patterns for Stock Markets with Big Data

   4:37- 4:40 pm questions and discussions

   4:40- 4:57 pm
  Sasigarn Kuvattana, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok
    and New Mexico State University
  Advisor: Tonghui Wang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  Performance bivariate copulas on the Shewhart control chart

   4:57- 5:00 pm questions and discussion

   5:00- 5:17 pm
  Xiaonan Zhu, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  Baokun Li, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NSMU
     and Southwest University of Finance and Economics
  Advisor: Tonghui Wang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  Distribution of quadratic forms under closed skew normal settings

   5:17- 5:20 pm questions and discussion

   5:20- 5:37 pm
  Ziwei Ma, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  Xiaonan Zhu, Department of Mathematical Sciences. NMSU
  Baokun Li, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU,
         and Southwest University of Finance and Economics
  Tonghui Wang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  Estimation of parameters in skew-normal family using Inferential Models

   5:37- 5:40 pm questions and discussion

   5:40- 5:57 pm
  Wei Wang, Xi'an Shiyou University, China, and
    Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
  A communication encoding scheme on the
  Chinese remainder theorem on polynomials

   5:57- 6:00 pm questions and discussion

   6:00- 6:17 pm
  Arias Miguel Zamudio, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Christian Auyb, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Leobardo Valera, Computational Science Program, UTEP
  Martine Ceberio, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
  Generating Pairwise Covering test suites for software
  with different number of parameters and values

   6:17- 6:20 pm questions and discussion

   6:20- 6:40 pm general discussion

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