Causal Interpretation and Identification
of Conditional Independence Structures
Seminar 4 on
CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE STRUCTURES AND GRAPHICAL MODELS
September 27 - October 15, 1999
Organizing Committee:
Milan Studený, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
Frantisek Matús, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
Details
concerning the starting workshop Conditional Independence Structures
and Graphical Models
Overview:
The precise description of conditional independence structures and
the one-to-one correspondence of these structures with their visual
or algebraic representation is fundamental to the development and implementation
of algorithms for estimation, testing, etc. This description can be
done using different types of graphs but also using non-graphical tools
based on information theory such as imsets or matroids. The concept
of conditional independence often occurs also in miscellaneous non-probabilistic
calculi for dealing with uncertainty in artificial intelligence. The
purpose of the seminar is to first recall the relatively simple mathematical
tools needed for the axiomatic or graphical characterization of conditional
independence structures (during the starting week's workshop). Then,
researchers will focus on the open problems in this area mentioned in
the original proposal of the seminar or raised by other participants
of the workshop. This type of research can be viewed as the research
for the precise mathematical description of all conditional independence
structures, using both graphs and non-graphical methods.
MAIN SPEAKERS
D. R. Cox Nuffield College, Oxford
J. A. T. Koster Erasmus University, Rotterdam
M. D. Perlman University of Washington, Seattle
P. P. Shenoy Kansas University, Lawrence
R. W. Yeung Chinese University of Hong Kong
A. P. Dawid University College, London
A. Paz Technion, Haifa
G. Shafer Rutgers University, New jersey
N. Wermuth ZUMA Center for Survey Research, Mannheim
Z. Zhang University of Southern California, Los Angeles
INVITED SPEAKERS
S. A. Andersson
Indiana University |
Y. Sun
National University of Singapore |
R. Bouckaert
Crystal Mountain Information Technology |
T. Rudas
Central European University |
G. Coletti
University of Perugia |
R. Scozzafava Universita' "La Sapienza" |
| D. Cox Nuffield College |
P. Shenoy Kansas University Business School |
F. Cozman
Escola Politecnia, University of Sao Paulo |
J. Simonis
Delft University of Technology |
E. Fabre
IRISA |
J. Q. Smith
University of Warwick |
P. Giudici
University of Pavia |
J. Vejnarova
University of Economics, Prague |
R. Jirousek
University of Economics, Prague |
N. Wermuth
ZUMA - Center for Survey Research, Mannheim |
J. Koster
Erasmus University |
M. D. Perlman
University of Washington, Seattle |
F. Malvestuto
"La Sapienza" University of Rome |
S. K. M. Wong
University of Regina |
C. Meek
Microsoft Research |
R. Yeung
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
A. Paz
The Australian National University |
Z. Zhang
University of Southern California |
