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Beyond Traditional Probabilistic Data Processing Techniques: Interval, Fuzzy etc. Methods and Their Applications

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This short article explains why symmetries are important, and how they influenced many research projects in which I participated.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, 79968, USA

    Vladik Kreinovich

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  1. Department of Teacher Education, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA

    Olga Kosheleva

  2. Institute of Computational Technologies SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Sergey P. Shary

  3. Johns Creek, GA, USA

    Gang Xiang

  4. Deptartment of Informatics, The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Roman Zapatrin

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Kreinovich, V. (2020). Symmetries Are Important. In: Kosheleva, O., Shary, S., Xiang, G., Zapatrin, R. (eds) Beyond Traditional Probabilistic Data Processing Techniques: Interval, Fuzzy etc. Methods and Their Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 835. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31041-7_1

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