CSCE 582 {=STAT 582} Paper Presentations by Graduate Students

Rubric for extra graduate work, spring 2024 (updated with later due date on 2024-04-23)

Some suggested papers from a recent issue of the journal Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management.

Papers for presentation (spring 2016)

  • Mohamed Ali Javidian, April 12, 2016: Kasper L. Jensen, Jorn Toftum, Peter Friis-Hansen. "A Bayesian Network Approach to the Evaluation of Building Design and its Consequences for Employee Performance and Operational Costs." Building and Environment, 44 (2009), 456-462. (Local Copy.) (Presentation.)
  • Darren Harton, April 19, 2016: Anders L. Madsen and Uffe B. Kjaerulff. "Applications of HUGIN to Diagnosis and Control of Autonomous Vehicles." "Peter Lucas, Jose Gamez, and and Antonio Salmeron (eds.). Advances in Probabilistic Graphical Models. Springer, 313-332, 2007. (Local Copy.) (Presentation.)
  • Asim Jamil Chowdhury and Ahmed Shehab Khan, April 21, 2016: Michalis Xenos. "Prediction and assessment of Student Behaviour in Open and Distance Education in Computers Using Bayesian Networks." Computers and Education, 43, 345-369 (2004). (Local Copy.) (Presentation.)
  • David N. Barton, Tamara Benjamin, Carlos R. Cerdan, Fabrice DeClerck, Anders L. Madsen, Graciela M. Rusch, Alvaro G. Salazar, Dalia Sanchez, Cristobal Villanueva. "Assessing ecosystem services from multifunctional trees in pastures using Bayesian belief networks." Ecosystem Services 18, 165-174 (2016). (Local Copy.)
  • Alireza Nasiri, April 21, 2016: David N. Barton, Youssouf Cisse, Bocary Kaya, Ibrahima N'Diaye, Harouna Yossi, Abdoulaye Diarra, Souleymane Keita, Amadou Dembele, Daouda Maiga, Graciela M. Rusch, Anders L. Madsen. "Diagnosing agrosilvopastoral practices using Bayesian networks." Agroforestry Systems, March 2016 (online publication). (Local Copy.) (Also see this page at the Hugin website.) (Presentation.)

    Presentations are expected to last 30 minutes, including time for questions.

    Papers for presentations (spring 2014):

  • Chao Chen, April 24, 2014: Takeshi Sakaki, Makoto Okazaki, and Yutaka Matsuo. 2010. "Earthquake shakes Twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors." In Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web (WWW '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 851-860. Presentation. Paper at ACM Digital Library. Local copy.
    Additional reference: Roick, O.; Heuser, S. Location based social networks-Definition, current state of the art and research agenda. Trans. GIS 2012, 17, 763-784.
  • Ashwin Patti, April 22, 2014: Support for Bayesian network learning and classification in Hugin and Weka. Presentation.
  • Xiao Lin, April 22, 2014: The PC algorithm for Bayesian network learning. Presentation. Peter Spirtes and Clark Glymour. An Algorithm for Fast Recovery of Sparse Causal Graphs. Social Science Computer Review, 1991, Vol. 9, no.1, 62-72. (Local copy).
  • Megha Gupta and Rahul Tomar, April 24, 2013: David Koelle, Jonathan Pfautz, Michael Farry, Zach Cox, Geoffrey Catto, and Joseph Campolongo. "Applications of Bayesian Belief Networks in Social Network Analysis." Proceedings of 4th Bayesian Modeling Applications Workshop at the 22nd Annual Conference on Uncertainty in AI: UAI '06. Presentation. Paper from the workshop site. Local copy. Workshop site.
  • Harish Lingareddy. Presentaton on computation of the most probable explanation in Bayesian networks using bucket elimination. Presentation. Tables with computations for the Visit to Asia Example.

    Papers for presentation (spring 2012):

  • Rejin James and Marwan Kandela, April 19, 2012: Silja Renooij, Linda C. van der Gaag, "Evidence and scenario sensitivities in naive Bayesian classifiers," International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Volume 49, Issue 2, October 2008, Pages 398-416, ISSN 0888-613X, 10.1016/j.ijar.2008.02.008. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0888613X08000236) ( local copy). (Presentation (ppt) ).
  • Michael Helms and Hanin Omar, April 19, 2012: Kathryn Blackmond Laskey, Edward J. Wright, Paulo C.G. da Costa, "Envisioning uncertainty in geospatial information," International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Volume 51, Issue 2, January 2010, Pages 209-223, ISSN 0888-613X, 10.1016/j.ijar.2009.05.011. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0888613X0900098X) ( local copy). (Presentation (pptx) ).

    Presentations (spring 2009):

    Presentation checklist (MS-Word) .

    Some advice on oral presentations from Mark Hill and David Patterson

    How to give a good presentation, by Kati Compton and Mark Chang

    Fall 2003 Presentations:

    Fall 2002 Presentations: