FIPA Doctoral Thesis Prize to HIIT for the 4th time running
Mon, 01.06.2009
1 June 2009 - The Finnish Information Processing Association FIPA (Tietotekniikan liitto) has awarded the Annual Doctoral Thesis Prize to Teemu Koponen. This is the fourth time running that the prize is awarded to a HIIT researcher. The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters awarded Koponen for his dissertation earlier in this spring.
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Doctoral disseration: algorithm for constructing the most probable Bayesian network from data for small domains
Sat, 30.05.2009
30 May 2009 - Tomi Silander introduced in his doctoral dissertation an algorithm for constructing the most probable Bayesian network from data for small domains. The algorithm is used to show that a popular goodness criterion for the Bayesian networks has a severe sensitivity problem. The dissertation then proposes an information theoretic criterion that avoids the problem.
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