Table of Contents

Forewordvi

Prefacevii

Section I:

Modeling and Classification Using Bayesian Networks

Chapter I

A Novel Discriminative Naive Bayesian Network for Classification 1

Chapter II

A Bayesian Belief Network Approach for Modeling Complex Domains 13

Chapter III

Data Mining of Bayesian Network Structure Using a Semantic Genetic Algorithm-Based Approach 42

Sachin Shetty, Old Dominion University, USA

Min Song, Old Dominion University, USA

Mansoor Alam, University of Toledo, USA

Chapter IV

NetCube: Fast, Approximate Database Queries Using Bayesian Networks 54

Dimitris Margaritis, Iowa State University, USA

Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University, USA

Chapter V

Applications of Bayesian Networks in Reliability Analysis 84

Helge Langseth, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Luigi Portinale, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy

Chapter VI

Application of Bayesian Modeling to Management Information Systems: A Latent Scores Approach 103

Sumeet Gupta, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Hee-Wong Kim, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Section II:

Bayesian network for Image Processing and Related Applications

Chapter VII

Bayesian Networks for Image Understanding 128

Andreas Savakis, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Jiebo Luo, Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories, USA

Michael Kane, Yale University, USA

Chapter VIII

Long Term Tracking of Pedestrians with Groups and Occlusions 151

Pedro M Jorge, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal

Arnaldo J Abrantes, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal

João M Lemos, INESC-ID/Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Jorge S Marques, Instituto de Sistemas e Róbotica and Instituto Superior

Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal

Chapter IX

DBN Models for Visual Tracking and Prediction 176

Qian Diao, Intel China Research Center, China

Jianye Lu, Intel China Research Center, China

Wei Hu, Intel China Research Center, China

Yimin Zhang, Intel China Research Center, China

Chapter X

Multimodal Human Localization Using Bayesian Network Sensor Fusion 194

David Lo, Carleton University, Canada

Chapter XI

Retrieval of Bio-Geophysical Parameters from Remotely Sensing Data by Using Bayesian Methodology 222

C Notarnicola, University of Bari, Italy

Section III:

Bayesian networks for Bioinformatics Applications

Chapter XII

Application of Bayesian Network in Drug Discovery and Development

Process 254

Arunkumar Chinnasamy, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore

Sudhanshu Patwardhan, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore

Wing-Kin Sung, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Chapter XIII

Bayesian Network Approach to Estimate Gene Networks 269

Seiya Imoto, University of Tokyo, Japan

Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan

Chapter XIV

Bayesian Network Modeling of Transcription Factor Binding Sites: A Tutorial 300

Vipin Narang, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Rajesh Chowdhary, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Ankush Mittal, Indian Institute of Technology, India

Wing-Kin Sung, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Chapter XV

Application of Bayesian Network in Learning Gene Network 319

Tie-Fei Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Wing-Kin Sung, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Ankush Mittal, Indian Institute of Technology, India

About the Authors 342