UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
Although many real-world stochastic planning problems are more naturally formulated by hybrid models with both discrete and continuous variables, current state-of-the-art methods ...
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
In this paper, we present a Branch and Bound algorithm called QuickBB for computing the treewidth of an undirected graph. This algorithm performs a search in the space of perfect ...
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
We develop the necessary theory in computational algebraic geometry to place Bayesian networks into the realm of algebraic statistics. We present an algebra
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
For many real-life Bayesian networks, common knowledge dictates that the output established for the main variable of interest increases with higher values for the observable varia...
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
We present a major improvement to the incremental pruning algorithm for solving partially observable Markov decision processes. Our technique targets the cross-sum step of the dyn...
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
We describe an approach for exploiting structure in Markov Decision Processes with continuous state variables. At each step of the dynamic programming, the state space is dynamica...
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
Ancestral graph models, introduced by Richardson and Spirtes (2002), generalize both Markov random fields and Bayesian networks to a class of graphs with a global Markov property ...
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
The paper introduces mixed networks, a new framework for expressing and reasoning with probabilistic and deterministic information. The framework combines belief networks with con...
UAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
2004
Early, reliable detection of disease outbreaks is a critical problem today. This paper reports an investigation of the use of causal Bayesian networks to model spatio-temporal pat...