History.
Location: UTEP Campus, Chemistry and Computer Science Building Room G.0208
Local Organizers: Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpre, and Ming-Ying Leung
Program:
9:00- 9:05 am opening
9:05- 9:20 am
Emil D. Schwab, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
Generalizations of the Moebius Function
9:20- 9:35 am
Diego Aguirre, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Philip Hassoun, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Rafael Lopez, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Crystal Serrano, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Marcoantonio R. Soto, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Andrea Torres, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Smaller Standard Deviation for Initial Weights
Improves Neural Networks Performance: A Theoretical
Explanation of Unexpected Simulation Results
9:35- 9:50 am
Bibek Aryal, Computational Science Program, UTEP
Laxman Bokati, Computational Science Program, UTEP
Karla Godinez, Bioinformatics Program, UTEP
Shammir Ibarra, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Heyi Liu, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Bofei Wang, Computational Science Program, UTEP
Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Common Sense Addition Explained by Hurwicz Criterion
9:50-10:05 am
Joseph Bernal, Department of Philosophy, EPCC
Olga Kosheleva, Department of Teacher Education, UTEP
Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Avoiding Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) Paradox:
Towards a More Physically Adequate Description of a
Quantum State
10:05-10:20 am
Francis Biney, Computational Science Program, UTEP
Anthony DesArmier, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Noa Dodson, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Taylor Dodson, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Carlos A. Saldana Matamoros, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
How Often Do Companies Make Right Decisions:
Theoretical Explanation of an Empirical Observation
10:20-10:30 am break
10:30-10:45 am
Xuemei Chen, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
The Kaczmarz Algorithm
10:45-11:00 am
Weizhong Tian, Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico
On the scale mixture of multivariate skew slash
distribution
11:00-11:15 am
Behzad Djafari Rouhani, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
Zeroes of Monotone Operators and Proximal Point Algorithms
11:15-11:30 am
Afshin Gholamy, Department of Geological Sciences, UTEP
Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Safety Factors in Soil and Pavement Engineering:
Theoretical Explanation of Empirical Data
11:30-11:45 am
Ana Maria Hernandez Posada, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Maria Isabel Olivarez, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Christian Servin, Computer Science and IT Program, EPCC
Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
How to Best Process Data If We Have Both Absolute and
Relative Measurement Errors: A Pedagogical Comment
11:45-12:00 pm
Jason Ivey, Computer Science and IT Program, EPCC
Carolina Guerra, STEM Software Solutions (SSSLogic)
Christian Servin, Computer Science and IT Program, EPCC
Best Practices on Programming Fundamentals:
From Honors Projects to Research-Based Projects
12:00- 1:15 pm lunch (sponsored by El Paso Chapter of IEEE and by UTEP's
Computational Science Program)
1:15- 2:15 pm
Poster session
2:15- 2:30 pm
Carlos Jimenez, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Francisco Zapata, Department of Industrial Engineering, UTEP
Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
How to Describe Correlation in Interval Case?
2:30- 2:45 pm
Ryan Jones, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Perla De La O, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Sebastian Gonzalez, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Jorge Huerta, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Manuel Munoz, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Why Attitude to Good People Is Not Always Positive:
Explanation Based on Decision Theory
2:45- 3:00 pm
Ziwei Ma, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
Tonghui Wang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
The Plausibility Regions for Shape Parameters
under Multivariate Skew Normal Settings Based
on Inferential Model
3:00- 3:15 pm
Abhijeet R Patil, Computational Science Program, UTEP
Sangjin Kim, Department of Mathematical Sciences and
Border Biomedical Research Center,
Two-Stage Multinomial Classification with ensemble
classifier of SVM and RF for High-Throughput Data
3:15- 3:30 pm
Javier Polanco, Departamento de Fisica y Matematicas,
UACJ, Juarez, Mexico
Rosa M. Fitzgerald, Physics Department, UTEP
An Improved Methodology to Calculate the Aerosol
Scattering Coefficients for the El Paso-Juarez Airshed
3:30- 3:45 pm
Andrew Pownuk, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP
Applications of Autonomous Computational
Methods for Finding Step-by-Step Solutions
3:45- 4:00 pm
Omar Badreddin, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Khandoker A. Rahad, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
The Impact of Design and UML Modeling
on Codebase Quality and Sustainability
4:00- 4:15 pm
Christian Servin, Computer Science and IT Program, EPCC
Reynaldo Martinez, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Peter Hanson, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Leonel Lopez, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
How to Define "and"- and "or"-Operations for
Intuitionistic and Picture Fuzzy Sets
4:15- 4:30 pm
Luisana Clarke, Computer Science and IT Program, EPCC
Christian Servin, Computer Science and IT Program, EPCC
Remedial Activity for Computer Science Courses
at the Two-Year Colleges: Preliminary Findings on the
Elem. Data Structures and Algorithms Course
4:30- 4:45 pm
Tingting Tong, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
Advisor: Tonghui Wang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
Optimal Model Averaging Weights
under Asymmetric Loss
4:45- 5:00 pm
Christopher W. Tovar, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Carlos Cervantes, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Mario Delgado, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Stephanie Figueroa, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Caleb Gillis, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Daniel Gomez, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Andres Llausas, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Julio C. Lopez Molinar, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Mariana Rodriguez, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Alexander Wieczkowski, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Francisco Zapata, Department of Industrial Engineering, UTEP
Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Computing with words -- when results do not depend on the
selection of the membership function
5:00- 5:10 pm break
5:10- 5:25 pm
Julio Urenda, Departments of Mathematical Sciences
and Computer Science, UTEP
Marco Cardiel, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Laura Hinojos, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Oliver Martinez, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Expert Knowledge Makes Predictions More Accurate:
Theoretical Explanation of an Empirical Observation
5:25- 5:40 pm
Leobardo Valera, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Martine Ceberio, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Interval Finite Element Method
5:40- 5:55 pm
Leobardo Valera, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Eduardo Saenz de Cabezon, Department of Mathematics and Computation,
Universidad de la Rioja, Spain
Martine Ceberio, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Surviving a Zombie Attack Using Interval Constraint Solving
Techniques -- A Fun Approach to a Serious Problem: Epidemics
5:55- 6:10 pm
Cong Wang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
Tonghui Wang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
Desired sample size for estimating the skewness
under skew normal settings
6:10- 6:25 pm
Yan Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Oscar Galindo, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Michael Baca, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Jake Lasley, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, UTEP
Experimental Determination of Mechanical
Properties Is, In General, NP-Hard -- Unless We
Measure Everything
6:25- 6:40 pm
Xiaonan Zhu, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
Advisor: Tonghui Wang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NMSU
Asymmetric association measures for
multi-way contingency tables
6:40- 7:00 pm general discussion
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