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How To Understand Connections Based On Big Data: From Cliques To Flexible Granules, Ali Jalal-Kamali, M. Shahriar Hossain, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

One of the main objectives of science and engineering is to predict the future state of the world -- and to come up with actions which will lead to the most favorable outcome. To be able to do that, we need to have a quantitative model describing how the values of the desired quantities change -- and for that, we need to know which factors influence this change. Usually, these factors are selected by using traditional statistical techniques, but with the current drastic increase in the amount of available data -- known as the advent of {\it big data} -- …