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Re: Motion P1788.1/M001.02 -- YES



The term  "natural interval extension" meaning replacement 
 of all real quantities and operators by interval
ones has been introduced by Moore.

So I find great the suggestion by Michel to rename this
term "Moore Interval Extension" in tribute to R Moore.

Svetoslav




On 7 Dec 2015 at 23:27, Fr'ed'eric Goualard wrote:

Subject:        	Re: Motion P1788.1/M001.02 -- YES
To:             	Michel Hack <mhack@xxxxxxx>, stds-1788 
<stds-1788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From:           	Fr~A©d~A©ric Goualard <Frederic.Goualard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date sent:      	Mon, 7 Dec 2015 23:27:20 +0100

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> Dear Michel,
> 
> On 12/07/2015 10:08 PM, Michel Hack wrote:
> > I vote YES to the text of Clause 4 of Nov 30, 2015.
> > 
> > As for "Natural Interval Extension" -- it seems to me that this is
> > the proper term.  Is is also consistent with the parent standard
> > 1788-2015.
> > 
> > Now, there may indeed be confusion if others have used this term
> > to denote what I might call "Moore Interval Extension".
> > 
> > So I would suggest, as an editorial comment, that we add the
> > following at the end of Clause 4.4.4:
> > 
> > The term "Natural Interval Extension" has frequently been used to 
> > denote the result of expression evaluation, as opposed to the hull 
> > of the range.  The term "Moore Interval Extension" might have been 
> > more appropriate for this.
> > 
> > Michel.
> > 
> > P.S.  The Wikipedia article does not define the "function rule"
> > that it applies to its definition of "natural interval extension". 
> > The problem of course is that many expressions can be used to 
> > compute a function, and some functions might not even use an 
> > expression -- they might use table-based interpolation for
> > example. So while there may be a "natural interval expression
> > extension", the notion does not make sense for a *function*.
> > 
> > An article by Alexandre Goldsztein uses "Natural A-E extension" 
> > which however restrics the expression to single-use variables. 
> > ---Sent: 2015-12-07 21:33:52 UTC
> > 
> 
> Two months ago, I searched my library for a definition of "Natural
> interval extension". Here is what I found:
> 
> Introduction to Interval Analysis, Ramon Moore, R. Baker Kearfott and
> Michael J. Cloud. SIAM 2009.
> The authors define "natural interval extension" on Page 47 in an
> informal manner (replace all real quantities and operators by interval
> ones) that corresponds to my own understanding.
> 
> Applied Interval Analysis. Luc Jaulin, Michel Kieffer, Olivier Didrit
> and Eric Walter. Springer 2001.
> The authors define a "natural inclusion function" on Page 30, again by
> mapping real quantities to interval ones. Still rather informal.
> 
> Validated Numerics. Warwick Tucker. Princeton University Press 2011.
> Warwick defines a "natural interval extension" informally as
> substitution from real objects to interval ones.
> 
> I could not find the expression in "Interval Methods for  Systems of
> Equations" by Arnold Neumaier. However, I surmise he would sanction
> the syntactical definition, as it is the one used in a paper he
> coauthored with Daney and Papegay:
> Interval Methods for Certification of the Kinematic Calibration of
> Parallel Robots. D. Daney, Y. Papegay, and A. Neumaier. Proceedings of
> the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation.
> 
> I believe there is enough papers and books that do not use "natural
> interval extension" in the sense used in P1788.1 to make its
> (re-)definition there objectionable.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> FG.
> - -- 
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