[Research] Auton Lab meeting today

[Artur Dubrawski]

March 10th, 12 noon, NSH 1507:

Speaker: Marek Druzdzel
Associate Professor, Decision Systems Laboratory, School of Information 
Sciences, U. of Pittsburgh

Title: Cool Things That You Can Do With Graphical Probabilistic Models

Abstract:
In this introductory-level talk, I will give an overview of some of the
research done in the last decade at the Decision Systems Laboratory,
focusing on directed probabilistic graphs, such as Bayesian networks.  I
will review basic knowledge engineering and inference techniques for
Bayesian networks, influence diagrams, dynamic Bayesian networks,
Bayesian networks involving equations and continuous distributions,
along with applications in diagnosis, prognosis, data analysis,
learning, and strategic planning.  I will show some user interface
tricks for making the results of computation digestible for users.  As
most of these topics are best explained "real-time", I will rely heavily
on GeNIe, a graphical modeling environment developed at the Decision
Systems Laboratory, and available at http://genie.sis.pitt.edu/.