Technical Reports from 2021
Invariance-Based Approach: General Methods and Pavement Engineering Case Study, Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Vladik Kreinovich, and Olga Kosheleva
How the Pavement's Lifetime Depends on the Stress Level: An Explanation of the Empirical Formula, Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and Hoang Phuong Nguyen
Geometric Analysis Leads to Adversarial Teaching of Cybersecurity, Christian Servin, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Shall We Ignore All Intermediate Grades?, Christian Servin, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
What Teachers Can Learn from Machine Learning, Christian Servin, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why 70/100 Is Satisfactory? Why Five Letter Grades? Why Other Academic Conventions?, Christian Servin, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Gauge Students' Ability to Collaborate?, Christian Servin, Olga Kosheleva, Shahnaz Shahbazova, and Vladik Kreinovich
Ethical Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars: Conservative Solution, Christian Servin, Vladik Kreinovich, and Shahnaz Shahbazova
What Fuzzy and Quantum Computing Can Learn from the Success of Deep Learning, Shahnaz Shahbazova and Vladik Kreinovich
As Complexity Rises, Meaningful Statements Lose Precision -- but Why?, Miroslav Svitek, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Shall We Be Foxes or Hedgehogs: What Is the Best Balance for Research?, Miroslav Svitek, Olga Kosheleva, Shahnaz Shahbazova, and Vladik Kreinovich
Freedom of Will, Physics, and Human Intelligence: An Idea, Miroslav Svitek, Vladik Kreinovich, and Nguyen Hoang Phuong
Commonsense "And"-Operations, Javier Tellez, Wenbo Xie, and Vladik Kreinovich
Fuzzy Techniques, Laplace Indeterminacy Principle, and Maximum Entropy Approach Explain Lindy Effect and Help Avoid Meaningless Infinities in Physics, Julio C. Urenda, Sean R. Aguilar, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Kappa Regression?, Julio C. Urenda, Orsolya Csiszár, József Dombi, György Eigner, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Homogeneous Membranes Lead to Optimal Water Desalination: A Possible Explanation, Julio Urenda, Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Randomized Tax Deadlines Can Help Economy, Julio C. Urenda and Olga Kosheleva
Dimension Compactification Naturally Follows from First Principles, Julio C. Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Tents of Israel Revisited: Audio Privacy, Julio C. Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
What Is the Uncertainty of the Result of Data Processing: Fuzzy Analogue of the Central Limit Theorem, Julio C. Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, Shahnaz Shahbazova, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Rectified Linear Activation Functions? Why Max-Pooling? A Possible Explanation, Julio C. Urenda and Vladik Kreinovich
Mexican Folk Arithmetic Algorithm Makes Perfect Sense, Julio C. Urenda, Christian Servin, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Localized Learning: A Possible Alternative to Current Deep Learning Techniques, Javier Viana, Kelly Cohen, Anca Ralescu, Stephan Ralescu, and Vladik Kreinovich
Extension to Multidimensional Problems of a Fuzzy-based Explainable & Noise-Resilient Algorithm, Javier Viana, Stephan Ralescu, Kelly Cohen, Anca Ralescu, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Cauchy Membership Functions: Efficiency, Javier Viana, Stephan Ralescu, Kelly Cohen, Anca Ralescu, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Ovals in Eliciting Intervals?, Joshua Zamora and Vladik Kreinovich
Fuzzy Logic Leads to a More Adequate Way of Processing Likert-Scale Values: Case Study of Burnout, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Estimate Time Needed for Software Migration, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Moving Fast and Breaking Things Makes Sense?, Francisco Zapata, Eric Smith, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)?, Francisco Zapata, Eric Smith, Vladik Kreinovich, and Nguyen Hoang Phuong
Technical Reports from 2020
Should Fighting Corruption Always Be One of the Main Pre-Requisites for Economic Help?, Sean R. Aguilar and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Quadratic Log-Log Dependence Is Ubiquitous And What Next, Sean R. Aguilar, Vladik Kreinovich, and Uyen Pham
Why Quantiles Are a Good Description of Volatility in Economics: A Pedagogical Explanation, Sean R. Aguilar, Vladik Kreinovich, and Uyen Pham
How Can Econometrics Help Fight the COVID'19 Pandemic?, Kevin Alvarez and Vladik Kreinovich
Towards Fast and Understandable Computations: Which "And"- and "Or"-Operations Can Be Represented by the Fastest (i.e., 1-Layer) Neural Networks? Which Activations Functions Allow Such Representations?, Kevin Alvarez, Julio Urenda, Orsoly Csiszár, Gábor Csiszár, József Dombi, György Eigner, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Class-D Audio Amplifiers Work Well: A Theoretical Explanation, Kevin Alvarez, Julio Urenda, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why It Is Sufficient to Have Real-Valued Amplitudes in Quantum Computing, Isaac Bautista, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and Nguyen Hoang Phuong
Fusion of Probabilistic Knowledge as Foundation for Sliced-Normal Approach, Michael Beer, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
It Is Important to Take All Available Information into Account When Making a Decision: Case of the Two Envelopes Problem, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Predictably (Boundedly) Rational: Examples of Seemingly Irrational Behavior Can Be Quantitatively Explained by Bounded Rationality, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
The Similarity Between Earth's and Mars's Core-Mantle Boundary Seems to Be Statistically Significant, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why 3D Fragmentation Usually Leads to Cuboids: A Simple Geometric Explanation, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Significant Wave Height And Rogue Waves Are So Defined: A Possible Explanation, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Economics of Reciprocity and Temptation, Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich, and Nguyen Ngoc Thach
How the Proportion of People Who Agree to Perform a Task Depends on the Stimulus: A Theoretical Explanation of the Empirical Formula, Laxman Bokati, Vladik Kreinovich, and Doan Thanh Ha
How to Explain the Anchoring Formula in Behavioral Economics, Laxman Bokati, Vladik Kreinovich, and Chon Van Le
How to Combine (Dis)Utilities of Different Aspects into a Single (Dis)Utility Value, and How This Is Related to Geometric Images of Happiness, Laxman Bokati, Nguyen Hoang Phuong, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Why Immediate Repetition Is Good for Short-Time Learning Results but Bad For Long-Time Learning: Explanation Based on Decision Theory, Laxman Bokati, Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Absence of Remotely Triggered Large Earthquakes: A Geometric Explanation, Laxman Bokati, Aaron A. Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich
Scale-Invariance and Fuzzy Techniques Explain the Empirical Success of Inverse Distance Weighting and of Dual Inverse Distance Weighting in Geosciences, Laxman Bokati, Aaron A. Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich