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Book Bayesian Network Technologies  Applications and Graphical Models

Download or read book Bayesian Network Technologies Applications and Graphical Models written by Mittal, Ankush and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides an excellent, well-balanced collection of areas where Bayesian networks have been successfully applied; it describes the underlying concepts of Bayesian Networks with the help of diverse applications, and theories that prove Bayesian networks valid"--Provided by publisher.

Book Bayesian Networks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Olivier Pourret
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2008-04-30
  • ISBN : 9780470994542
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book Bayesian Networks written by Olivier Pourret and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bayesian Networks, the result of the convergence of artificial intelligence with statistics, are growing in popularity. Their versatility and modelling power is now employed across a variety of fields for the purposes of analysis, simulation, prediction and diagnosis. This book provides a general introduction to Bayesian networks, defining and illustrating the basic concepts with pedagogical examples and twenty real-life case studies drawn from a range of fields including medicine, computing, natural sciences and engineering. Designed to help analysts, engineers, scientists and professionals taking part in complex decision processes to successfully implement Bayesian networks, this book equips readers with proven methods to generate, calibrate, evaluate and validate Bayesian networks. The book: Provides the tools to overcome common practical challenges such as the treatment of missing input data, interaction with experts and decision makers, determination of the optimal granularity and size of the model. Highlights the strengths of Bayesian networks whilst also presenting a discussion of their limitations. Compares Bayesian networks with other modelling techniques such as neural networks, fuzzy logic and fault trees. Describes, for ease of comparison, the main features of the major Bayesian network software packages: Netica, Hugin, Elvira and Discoverer, from the point of view of the user. Offers a historical perspective on the subject and analyses future directions for research. Written by leading experts with practical experience of applying Bayesian networks in finance, banking, medicine, robotics, civil engineering, geology, geography, genetics, forensic science, ecology, and industry, the book has much to offer both practitioners and researchers involved in statistical analysis or modelling in any of these fields.

Book Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs

Download or read book Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs written by Thomas Dyhre Nielsen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a brand new edition of an essential work on Bayesian networks and decision graphs. It is an introduction to probabilistic graphical models including Bayesian networks and influence diagrams. The reader is guided through the two types of frameworks with examples and exercises, which also give instruction on how to build these models. Structured in two parts, the first section focuses on probabilistic graphical models, while the second part deals with decision graphs, and in addition to the frameworks described in the previous edition, it also introduces Markov decision process and partially ordered decision problems.

Book Dynamic Bayesian Networks

Download or read book Dynamic Bayesian Networks written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Is Dynamic Bayesian Networks A Bayesian network (BN) is referred to as a Dynamic Bayesian Network (DBN), which is a network that ties variables to each other throughout consecutive time steps. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Dynamic Bayesian Network Chapter 2: Bayesian Network Chapter 3: Hidden Markov Model Chapter 4: Graphical Model Chapter 5: Recursive Bayesian Estimation Chapter 6: Time Series Chapter 7: Statistical Relational Learning Chapter 8: Bayesian Programming Chapter 9: Switching Kalman Filter Chapter 10: Dependency Network (Graphical Model) (II) Answering the public top questions about dynamic bayesian networks. (III) Real world examples for the usage of dynamic bayesian networks in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of dynamic bayesian networks' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of dynamic bayesian networks.

Book Probabilistic Graphical Models

Download or read book Probabilistic Graphical Models written by Daphne Koller and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A general framework for constructing and using probabilistic models of complex systems that would enable a computer to use available information for making decisions. Most tasks require a person or an automated system to reason—to reach conclusions based on available information. The framework of probabilistic graphical models, presented in this book, provides a general approach for this task. The approach is model-based, allowing interpretable models to be constructed and then manipulated by reasoning algorithms. These models can also be learned automatically from data, allowing the approach to be used in cases where manually constructing a model is difficult or even impossible. Because uncertainty is an inescapable aspect of most real-world applications, the book focuses on probabilistic models, which make the uncertainty explicit and provide models that are more faithful to reality. Probabilistic Graphical Models discusses a variety of models, spanning Bayesian networks, undirected Markov networks, discrete and continuous models, and extensions to deal with dynamical systems and relational data. For each class of models, the text describes the three fundamental cornerstones: representation, inference, and learning, presenting both basic concepts and advanced techniques. Finally, the book considers the use of the proposed framework for causal reasoning and decision making under uncertainty. The main text in each chapter provides the detailed technical development of the key ideas. Most chapters also include boxes with additional material: skill boxes, which describe techniques; case study boxes, which discuss empirical cases related to the approach described in the text, including applications in computer vision, robotics, natural language understanding, and computational biology; and concept boxes, which present significant concepts drawn from the material in the chapter. Instructors (and readers) can group chapters in various combinations, from core topics to more technically advanced material, to suit their particular needs.

Book Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks

Download or read book Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks written by Norman Fenton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first edition of this book published, Bayesian networks have become even more important for applications in a vast array of fields. This second edition includes new material on influence diagrams, learning from data, value of information, cybersecurity, debunking bad statistics, and much more. Focusing on practical real-world problem-solving and model building, as opposed to algorithms and theory, it explains how to incorporate knowledge with data to develop and use (Bayesian) causal models of risk that provide more powerful insights and better decision making than is possible from purely data-driven solutions. Features Provides all tools necessary to build and run realistic Bayesian network models Supplies extensive example models based on real risk assessment problems in a wide range of application domains provided; for example, finance, safety, systems reliability, law, forensics, cybersecurity and more Introduces all necessary mathematics, probability, and statistics as needed Establishes the basics of probability, risk, and building and using Bayesian network models, before going into the detailed applications A dedicated website contains exercises and worked solutions for all chapters along with numerous other resources. The AgenaRisk software contains a model library with executable versions of all of the models in the book. Lecture slides are freely available to accredited academic teachers adopting the book on their course.

Book Soft Computing Applications for Database Technologies

Download or read book Soft Computing Applications for Database Technologies written by K. Anbumani and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book investigates the advent of soft computing and its applications in database technologies"--Provided by publisher.

Book Enhanced Bayesian Network Models for Spatial Time Series Prediction

Download or read book Enhanced Bayesian Network Models for Spatial Time Series Prediction written by Monidipa Das and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research monograph is highly contextual in the present era of spatial/spatio-temporal data explosion. The overall text contains many interesting results that are worth applying in practice, while it is also a source of intriguing and motivating questions for advanced research on spatial data science. The monograph is primarily prepared for graduate students of Computer Science, who wish to employ probabilistic graphical models, especially Bayesian networks (BNs), for applied research on spatial/spatio-temporal data. Students of any other discipline of engineering, science, and technology, will also find this monograph useful. Research students looking for a suitable problem for their MS or PhD thesis will also find this monograph beneficial. The open research problems as discussed with sufficient references in Chapter-8 and Chapter-9 can immensely help graduate researchers to identify topics of their own choice. The various illustrations and proofs presented throughout the monograph may help them to better understand the working principles of the models. The present monograph, containing sufficient description of the parameter learning and inference generation process for each enhanced BN model, can also serve as an algorithmic cookbook for the relevant system developers.

Book Benefits of Bayesian Network Models

Download or read book Benefits of Bayesian Network Models written by Philippe Weber and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The application of Bayesian Networks (BN) or Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBN) in dependability and risk analysis is a recent development. A large number of scientific publications show the interest in the applications of BN in this field. Unfortunately, this modeling formalism is not fully accepted in the industry. The questions facing today's engineers are focused on the validity of BN models and the resulting estimates. Indeed, a BN model is not based on a specific semantic in dependability but offers a general formalism for modeling problems under uncertainty. This book explains the principles of knowledge structuration to ensure a valid BN and DBN model and illustrate the flexibility and efficiency of these representations in dependability, risk analysis and control of multi-state systems and dynamic systems. Across five chapters, the authors present several modeling methods and industrial applications are referenced for illustration in real industrial contexts.

Book Social Capital Modeling in Virtual Communities  Bayesian Belief Network Approaches

Download or read book Social Capital Modeling in Virtual Communities Bayesian Belief Network Approaches written by Daniel, Ben and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-05-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book researchers have employed different approaches to examine and describe various types of relationships among people in communities by using social capital as a conceptual and theoretical tool"--Provided by publisher.

Book Bayesian Network

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fouad Sabry
  • Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
  • Release : 2023-07-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 123 pages

Download or read book Bayesian Network written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Is Bayesian Network A Bayesian network is a probabilistic graphical model that depicts a set of variables and their conditional relationships via a directed acyclic graph (DAG). In other words, a Bayesian network is a type of directed acyclic graph. Bayesian networks are perfect for determining the likelihood that any one of multiple possible known causes was the contributing factor in an event that has already taken place and making a prediction based on that likelihood. For instance, the probabilistic links that exist between diseases and symptoms might be represented by a Bayesian network. The network may be used to compute the odds of the presence of a variety of diseases based on the symptoms that are provided. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Bayesian Network Chapter 2: Likelihood Function Chapter 3: Bayesian Inference Chapter 4: Posterior Probability Chapter 5: Graphical Model Chapter 6: Expectation-Maximization Algorithm Chapter 7: Gibbs Sampling Chapter 8: Markov Random Field Chapter 9: Maximum a Posteriori Estimation Chapter 10: Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling (II) Answering the public top questions about bayesian network. (III) Real world examples for the usage of bayesian network in many fields. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of bayesian network. What is Artificial Intelligence Series The artificial intelligence book series provides comprehensive coverage in over 200 topics. Each ebook covers a specific Artificial Intelligence topic in depth, written by experts in the field. The series aims to give readers a thorough understanding of the concepts, techniques, history and applications of artificial intelligence. Topics covered include machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, computer vision, natural language processing, robotics, ethics and more. The ebooks are written for professionals, students, and anyone interested in learning about the latest developments in this rapidly advancing field. The artificial intelligence book series provides an in-depth yet accessible exploration, from the fundamental concepts to the state-of-the-art research. With over 200 volumes, readers gain a thorough grounding in all aspects of Artificial Intelligence. The ebooks are designed to build knowledge systematically, with later volumes building on the foundations laid by earlier ones. This comprehensive series is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to develop expertise in artificial intelligence.

Book Intelligent Systems and Applications

Download or read book Intelligent Systems and Applications written by Yaxin Bi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents a remarkable collection of chapters covering a wide range of topics in the areas of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence, and their real-world applications. It gathers the proceedings of the Intelligent Systems Conference 2019, which attracted a total of 546 submissions from pioneering researchers, scientists, industrial engineers, and students from all around the world. These submissions underwent a double-blind peer-review process, after which 190 were selected for inclusion in these proceedings. As intelligent systems continue to replace and sometimes outperform human intelligence in decision-making processes, they have made it possible to tackle a host of problems more effectively. This branching out of computational intelligence in several directions and use of intelligent systems in everyday applications have created the need for an international conference as a venue for reporting on the latest innovations and trends. This book collects both theory and application based chapters on virtually all aspects of artificial intelligence; presenting state-of-the-art intelligent methods and techniques for solving real-world problems, along with a vision for future research, it represents a unique and valuable asset.

Book Safety and Reliability     Safe Societies in a Changing World

Download or read book Safety and Reliability Safe Societies in a Changing World written by Stein Haugen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 3202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World collects the papers presented at the 28th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2018 in Trondheim, Norway, June 17-21, 2018. The contributions cover a wide range of methodologies and application areas for safety and reliability that contribute to safe societies in a changing world. These methodologies and applications include: - foundations of risk and reliability assessment and management - mathematical methods in reliability and safety - risk assessment - risk management - system reliability - uncertainty analysis - digitalization and big data - prognostics and system health management - occupational safety - accident and incident modeling - maintenance modeling and applications - simulation for safety and reliability analysis - dynamic risk and barrier management - organizational factors and safety culture - human factors and human reliability - resilience engineering - structural reliability - natural hazards - security - economic analysis in risk management Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World will be invaluable to academics and professionals working in a wide range of industrial and governmental sectors: offshore oil and gas, nuclear engineering, aeronautics and aerospace, marine transport and engineering, railways, road transport, automotive engineering, civil engineering, critical infrastructures, electrical and electronic engineering, energy production and distribution, environmental engineering, information technology and telecommunications, insurance and finance, manufacturing, marine transport, mechanical engineering, security and protection, and policy making.

Book Gated Bayesian Networks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marcus Bendtsen
  • Publisher : Linköping University Electronic Press
  • Release : 2017-06-08
  • ISBN : 9176855252
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Gated Bayesian Networks written by Marcus Bendtsen and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bayesian networks have grown to become a dominant type of model within the domain of probabilistic graphical models. Not only do they empower users with a graphical means for describing the relationships among random variables, but they also allow for (potentially) fewer parameters to estimate, and enable more efficient inference. The random variables and the relationships among them decide the structure of the directed acyclic graph that represents the Bayesian network. It is the stasis over time of these two components that we question in this thesis. By introducing a new type of probabilistic graphical model, which we call gated Bayesian networks, we allow for the variables that we include in our model, and the relationships among them, to change overtime. We introduce algorithms that can learn gated Bayesian networks that use different variables at different times, required due to the process which we are modelling going through distinct phases. We evaluate the efficacy of these algorithms within the domain of algorithmic trading, showing how the learnt gated Bayesian networks can improve upon a passive approach to trading. We also introduce algorithms that detect changes in the relationships among the random variables, allowing us to create a model that consists of several Bayesian networks, thereby revealing changes and the structure by which these changes occur. The resulting models can be used to detect the currently most appropriate Bayesian network, and we show their use in real-world examples from both the domain of sports analytics and finance.

Book Data Warehousing and Mining  Concepts  Methodologies  Tools  and Applications

Download or read book Data Warehousing and Mining Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Wang, John and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-05-31 with total page 4092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the science of managing and analyzing large datasets has emerged as a critical area of research. In the race to answer vital questions and make knowledgeable decisions, impressive amounts of data are now being generated at a rapid pace, increasing the opportunities and challenges associated with the ability to effectively analyze this data.

Book Bayesian Networks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marco Scutari
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2021-07-28
  • ISBN : 1000410382
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book Bayesian Networks written by Marco Scutari and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the material step-by-step starting from meaningful examples Steps detailed with R code in the spirit of reproducible research Real world data analyses from a Science paper reproduced and explained in detail Examples span a variety of fields across social and life sciences Overview of available software in and outside R

Book Database Technologies  Concepts  Methodologies  Tools  and Applications

Download or read book Database Technologies Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Erickson, John and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 2962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This reference expands the field of database technologies through four-volumes of in-depth, advanced research articles from nearly 300 of the world's leading professionals"--Provided by publisher.