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JMLR
2000
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Learning with Mixtures of Trees
This paper describes the mixtures-of-trees model, a probabilistic model for discrete multidimensional domains. Mixtures-of-trees generalize the probabilistic trees of Chow and Liu...
Marina Meila, Michael I. Jordan
CORR
2004
Springer
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Efficiency Enhancement of Probabilistic Model Building Genetic Algorithms
Abstract. This paper presents two different efficiency-enhancement techniques for probabilistic model building genetic algorithms. The first technique proposes the use of a mutatio...
Kumara Sastry, David E. Goldberg, Martin Pelikan
AAI
2002
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Probabilistic Assessment of User's Emotions in Educational Games
We present a probabilistic model to monitor a user's emotions and engagement during the interaction with educational games. We illustrate how our probabilistic model assesses...
Cristina Conati
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
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Analysis of a gossip protocol in PRISM
Gossip protocols have been proposed as a robust and efficient method for disseminating information throughout dynamically changing networks. We present an analysis of a gossip pro...
Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, David Parker
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
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Using probabilistic model checking in systems biology
Probabilistic model checking is a formal verification framework for systems which exhibit stochastic behaviour. It has been successfully applied to a wide range of domains, includ...
Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, David Parker
SIGIR
2008
ACM
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A new probabilistic retrieval model based on the dirichlet compound multinomial distribution
The classical probabilistic models attempt to capture the Ad hoc information retrieval problem within a rigorous probabilistic framework. It has long been recognized that the prim...
Zuobing Xu, Ram Akella
JCS
2006
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Analysis of probabilistic contract signing
We present three case studies, investigating the use of probabilistic model checking to automatically analyse properties of probabilistic contract signing protocols. We use the pr...
Gethin Norman, Vitaly Shmatikov
IJBRA
2006
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Probabilistic models for biological sequences: selection and Maximum Likelihood estimation
: Probabilistic models for biological sequences (DNA and proteins) are frequently used in bioinformatics. We describe statistical tests designed to detect the order of dependency a...
Svetlana Ekisheva, Mark Borodovsky
COGSCI
2008
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A Probabilistic Model of Melody Perception
This study presents a probabilistic model of melody perception, which infers the key of a melody and also judges the probability of the melody itself. (A "melody" is def...
David Temperley
BMCBI
2010
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Mocapy++ - A toolkit for inference and learning in dynamic Bayesian networks
Background: Mocapy++ is a toolkit for parameter learning and inference in dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs). It supports a wide range of DBN architectures and probability distribut...
Martin Paluszewski, Thomas Hamelryck