School of Information Sciences

Marek Druzdzel

Associate Professor

2B13 IS Building
412-624-9432

marek@sis.pitt.edu
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Institution of highest degree:
Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests:

Decision support systems; strategic business planning; decision making under uncertainty; decision-theoretic methods in intelligent information systems.

Recent Publications:

Druzdzel, Marek and Changhe Yuan. 2005. Importance Sampling in Bayesian Networks: An Influence-Based Approximation Strategy for Importance Functions. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-05). Corvallis, OR: AUAI Press. 650-657.

Druzdzel, Marek. February 2005. Intelligent Decision Support Systems Based on SMILE. Software 2.0 2: 12-33.

Druzdzel, Marek and Changhe Yuan. 2005. How Heavy Should the Tails Be?Proceedings of the 18th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-2005), eds. Ingrid Russell and Zdrawko Markov. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. 799-804.

Druzdzel, Marek and Changhe Yuan. October 2004. A Comparison on the Effectiveness of Two Heuristics for Importance Sampling. Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM-04), ed. Peter Lucas. Leiden, The Netherlands. 225-232.

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