Planning for success: The interdisciplinary approach to building Bayesian models

  • Authors:
  • Alex Dekhtyar;Judy Goldsmith;Beth Goldstein;Krol Kevin Mathias;Cynthia Isenhour

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States;Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States;Department of Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States;Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States;Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper describes a process by which anthropologists, computer scientists, and social welfare case managers collaborated to build a stochastic model of welfare advising in Kentucky. In the process of collaboration, the research team rethought the Bayesian network model of Markov decision processes and designed a new knowledge elicitation format. We expect that this model will have wide applicability in other domains.