Tenth Annual Conference of the Australasian Bayesian Network Modelling Society (ABNMS2018)
December 4-5, 2018 : Workshops
December 6-7, 2018 : Conference
National Wine Centre of Australia, Adelaide
Workshops
Conference
December 6-7, 2018
National Wine Centre of Australia
Citations
To cite presentations from the conference, please follow the example below:
Darryn Reid (2018). Unknowing, Intelligently. In A. Coutts (chair) Australasian Bayesian Network Modelling Society Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, 2018. See http://abnms.org/conferences/abnms2018/program
Thursday 6th: Conference Day 1
| 8:00 | Conference registration | |
| 8:50 | Welcome and Conference Opening | |
Invited Speaker | ||
| 9:00 | Integration of Bayesian Network Modelling Technologies: A Review | Bruce Marcot and Trent Penman |
Session 1: New Developments in Model Building | ||
| 9:20 | Application of structural equation modelling, combined with Bayesian Networks, to control confounding bias in environmental impact studies using multivariate data | Rezvan Hatami |
| 9:40 | Inclusion of system reliability in a survivability assessment framework | Martin Friebe |
| 10:00 | What is an optimal value of k in k-fold cross-validation in discrete Bayesian network analysis? | Anca Hanea and Bruce Marcot |
| 10:20 | Morning Tea | |
Session 1: New Developments in Model Building (Cont.) | ||
| 10:50 | Non-flattening Incremental Compilation in OOBNs and iOOBNs | Md Samiullah, David Albrecht and Ann Nicholson |
| 11:10 | Anomaly Detection in Track Data using Bayesian Networks | Jonathan Legg, Michele Wilson and Steven Mascaro |
Panel Discussion 1 | ||
| 11:40 | The many faces of BNs | Anca Hanea, Ann Nicholson, Bruce Marcot, Trent Penman and Steven Mascaro |
| 12:40 | Lunch | |
Session 2: Environment and Health | ||
| 13:30 | Advances in Development and Application of Bayesian Decision Network Modeling: A Wildfire Management Case Study | Trent Penman, Brett Cirulis and Bruce Marcot |
| 13:50 | Supporting a One Health approach to disease prevention using spatial Bayesian networks | Helen Mayfield, Carl Smith, John Lowry, Conall Watson, Michael Baker, Mike Kama, Eric Nilles and Colleen Lau |
| 14:10 | Building a decision-support system for pandemic influenza | Freya Shearer, Robert Moss and James McCaw |
| 14:30 | A continuous pilot Bayesian network to model Antarctic ice sheets | Annemarie Christophersen, Elizabeth Keller, Anca Hanea, Nicholas Golledge, Nancy Bertler, Richard Levy and Robert McKay |
| 14:50 | Afternoon Tea | |
Session 2: Environment and Health (Cont.) | ||
| 15:20 | Application of Bayesian belief networks to better characterise the risk of Legionella colonisation of groundwater aeration units | Danladi Yunana, Stuart Maclaine, Amos Branch and Pierre Le-Clech |
| 15:40 | Prediction of causative pathogen of osteomyelitis using Bayesian network modelling | Yue Wu, Steven Mascaro and Tom Snelling |
| 16:00 | Bayes Nets, Bow-ties and the Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) Problem | David Roser, Michael Short, Nicholas Ashbolt and Rietie Venter |
Tool Development | ||
| 16:20 | BARD: An online tool for structured group elicitation of Bayesian networks to support analytic reasoning | Ann Nicholson |
| 16:40 | Annual General Meeting | |
| 19:00 | Dinner at Wine Centre |
Friday 7th: Conference Day 2
| 8:50 | Welcome | |
Invited Speaker | ||
| 9:00 | Unknowing, Intelligently | Darryn Reid |
Session 3: Defence and Security Applications | ||
| 9:40 | Utilising Bayesian Belief models to assess Land Logistics technologies | Greg Sherman |
| 10:00 | Using a System Dynamics and Bayesian Approach to Assess Operational Effectiveness | Denis Shine, Andrew Coutts, Guido Veldhuis, Olaf Binsch |
| 10:20 | Morning Tea | |
Session 3: Defence and Security Applications (Cont.) | ||
| 10:50 | Defence Decision Analysis with Uncertainty and Interdependency | Thang Cao, Tim Wilkin, Vicky Mak-Hau and Minh-Tuan Nguyen |
| 11:10 | Bayesian Network Meta-Model from Combat Simulation for Defence Decision Analysis | Thang Cao and Abida Shahzad |
| 11:30 | Combining Bayesian Networks and Particle Filters for Early Real-Time Detection of a Bio-weapon Attack | Peter Dawson, Robert Moss and Ralph Gailis |
| 11:50 | Lunch (Finishes 13:30) | |
Workshop | ||
Invited Speaker | ||
| 13:30 | Eliciting models and networks: Evidence, practicality and research avenues. | Victoria Hemming |
Panel Discussion 2 | ||
| 14:10 | The use and abuse of expert judgement | Anca Hanea, Victoria Hemming, Bruce Marcot and Annemarie Christophersen |
| 15:10 | Afternoon Tea | |
Invited Speaker | ||
| 15:30 | EcoQBNs: Toward A New Framework of Ecological Quantum Bayesian Networks | Bruce Marcot |
| 16:10 | Closing Address | |
| 16:20 | Conference Close |
Saturday 8th: Day 3
| 9:00 | Optional trip to McLaren Vale Wineries | |
| Confirm Attendance on Day 1 of conference |
Past conferences
You may also like to check last year's program to see past papers and presentations.
Sponsors
ABNMS would like to gratefully acknowledge our conference sponsors:
