Assoc Prof Ann Nicholson - Researcher Profile

Biography

Ann E. Nicholson is an Associate Professor at Monash University who specialises in Bayesian network modelling. She is an expert in dynamic Bayesian networks, planning under uncertainty, user modelling, Bayesian inference methods, and knowledge engineering with Bayesian networks.

Related Links:

• Ann Nicholson's Research homepage

Keywords

Artificial intelligence, Bayesian networks, Data Mining, Evolutionary ethics, Intelligent agents, Knowledge Engineering, Plan recognition, Probabilistic reasoning, User modelling

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: University of Oxford

Year awarded: 1993

SCIENCE

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1990

Publications

Books

Korb, K.B., Nicholson, A.E., 2011, Bayesian Artificial Intelligence, CRC Press, Boca Raton FL USA.

Mascaro, S., Korb, K.B., Nicholson, A.E., Woodberry, O.G., 2010, Evolving Ethics: The New Science of Good and Evil, Imprint Academic, Exeter UK.

Nicholson, A.E., Li, X. (eds), 2009, Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Joint Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany.

Korb, K.B., Nicholson, A.E., 2004, Bayesian Artificial Intellegence, CRC Press, Boca Raton Florida USA.

Albrecht, D.W., Zukerman, I., Nicholson, A.E., 1997, Bayesian models for keyhole plan recognition in an adventure game, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Sonnenberg, L., Nicholson, A.E. (eds), 1997, Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Women in Computing Workshop, Dept Computer Science, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Jitnah, N., Nicholson, A.E., 1997, Weight-directed search for anytime evaluation of belief networks, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Wen, Y., Korb, K.B., Nicholson, A.E., 2010, Generating incomplete data with DataZapper, in Agents and Artificial Intelligence, eds Joaquim Filipe, Ana Fred and Bernadette Sharp, Springer, Berlin Germany, pp. 110-123.

Nicholson, A.E., Twardy, C., Korb, K.B., Hope, L.R., 2008, Decision support for clinical cardiovascular risk assessment, in Bayesian Networks: A Practical Guide to Applications, eds Olivier Pourret, Patrick Naim and Bruce Marcot, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester England, pp. 33-52.

Korb, K.B., Nicholson, A.E., 2008, The causal interpretation of Bayesian Networks, in Innovations in Bayesian Networks: Theory and Applications, eds Dawn E Holmes and Lakhmi C Jain, Springer, Berlin Germany, pp. 83-116.

Journal Articles

Baum, J., Nicholson, A.E., Dix, T.I., 2012, Proximity-based non-uniform abstractions for approximate planning, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research [P], vol 43, AAAI Press, Menlo Park CA USA, pp. 477-522.

Nicholson, A.E., Flores, M.J., 2011, Combining state and transition models with dynamic Bayesian networks, Ecological Modelling [P], vol 222, issue 3, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 555-566.

Flores, M.J., Nicholson, A.E., Brunskill, A., Korb, K.B., Mascaro, S., 2011, Incorporating expert knowledge when learning Bayesian network structure: A medical case study, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine [P], vol 53, issue 3, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 181-204.

Jimenez Andrioli, P., Shirinzadeh, B., Oetomo, D., Nicholson, A., 2011, Swarm aggregation and formation control for robots with limited perception, International Journal of Robotics and Automation [P], vol 26, issue 3, ACTA Press, Calgary Canada, pp. 255-263.

Woodberry, O.G., Korb, K.B., Nicholson, A.E., 2007, A simulation study of the evolution of ageing, Evolutionary Ecology Research, vol 9, issue 7, Evolutionary Ecology Ltd, Tucson AZ US, pp. 1077-1096.

Pollino, C., Woodberry, O.G., Nicholson, A.E., Korb, K.B., Hart, B.T., 2007, Parameterisation and evaluation of a Bayesian network for use in an ecological risk assessment, Environmental Modelling & Software, vol 22, issue 8, Pergamon, UK, pp. 1140-1152.

Pollino, C., Woodberry, O.G., Nicholson, A.E., Korb, K.B., Hart, B.T., 2007, Parameterisation and evaluation of a Bayesian network for use in an ecological risk assessment, Environmental Modelling and Software, vol 22, Pergamon, UK, pp. 1140-1152.

Tang, A., Nicholson, A.E., Jin, Y., Han, J., 2007, Using Bayesian belief networks for change impact analysis in architecture design, The Journal of Systems and Software, vol 80, issue 1, Elsevier Inc., USA, pp. 127-148.

Twardy, C.R., Nicholson, A.E., Korb, K.B., McNeil, J.J., 2006, Epidemiological data mining of cardiovascular Bayesian networks, Electronic Journal of Health Informatics, vol 1, issue 1, Central Queensland University, http://www.ejhi.net, pp. 1-13.

Boneh, T., Nicholson, A.E., Sonenberg, L., 2006, Matilda: A visual tool for modeling with Bayesian Networks, International Journal of, vol 21, issue 11, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., USA, pp. 1127-1150.

Sheard, J.I., Lowe, G.S., Nicholson, A.E., Ceddia, J.D., 2003, Tackling transition: exposing secondary school students to tertiary IT teaching and learning, Journal of Information Technology Education, vol 2, Informing Science Institute, Santa Rosa USA, pp. 165-180.

Kennett, R.J., Korb, K.B., Nicholson, A.E., 2001, Seabreeze prediction using Bayesian networks, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol 2035, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Berlin Germany, pp. 148-153.

Mascaro, S., Korb, K.B., Nicholson, A.E., 2001, Suicide as an evolutionarily stable strategy, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol 2159, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Berlin Germany, pp. 120-132.

Wilkin, T.A., Nicholson, A.E., 2000, Efficient Inference in Dynamic Belief Networks with Variable Temporal Resolution, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol 1886, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 264-274.

Korb, K.B., Nicholson, A.E., 2000, The essential roles of emotion in cognitive architecture, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol 23 issue 2, Cambridge University Press, New York NY USA, pp. 205-206.

Zukerman, I., Albrecht, D.W., Nicholson, A.E., Doktor, K., 2000, Trading Off Granularity against Complexity in Predictive Models for Complex Domains, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol 1886, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg Germany, pp. 241-251.

Jitnah, N., Nicholson, A.E., 1999, Arc Weights for Approximate Evaluation of Dynamic Belief Networks, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1747: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence. 12th Australian Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AI'99), vol n foo, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg GERMANY, pp. 393-404.

Zukerman, I., Albrecht, D.W., Nicholson, A.E., 1999, Predicting Users' Requests on the WWW, UM99 User Modeling - Proceedings of the Seventh Int. Conference, Springer Verlag, Vienna AUSTRIA, pp. 275-284.

Albrecht, D.W., Zukerman, I., Nicholson, A.E., 1998, Bayesian Models for Keyhole Plan Recognition in an Adventure Game, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, vol 8 no 1-2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherland, pp. 5-47.

Jitnah, N., Nicholson, A.E., 1998, Belief Network Algorithms: A Study of Performance Based on Domain Characterisation, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Learning and Reasoning with Complex Representations, vol 1359, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 168-187.

Albrecht, D.W., Nicholson, A.E., Zukerman, I., 1998, Knowledge Acquisition for Goal Prediction in a Multi-user Adventure Game, Lecture Notes in Artifical Intelligence: Research and Development in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, vol 1394, Springer-Verlag, Berlin GERMANY, pp. 1-12.

Conference Proceedings

Nicholson, A.E., Chee, Y.E., Quintana-Ascencio, P., 2012, A state-transition DBN for management of willows in an American heritage river catchment, Proceedings of the Ninth UAI Bayesian Modeling Applications Workshop, 18 August 2012, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Aachen Germany, pp. 55-64.

Perez-Ariza, C.B., Nicholson, A.E., Korb, K.B., Mascaro, S., Hu, C., 2012, Causal discovery of dynamic Bayesian networks, AI 2012: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 25th Australasian Joint Conference, Proceedings, 4 December 2012 to 7 December 2012, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 902-913.

Mcnamara, R.A., Nicholson, A.E., Squire, D.M., 2012, Improving student engagement in software engineering with computer-supported groupwork, Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Computer Science Education: Innovation & Technology and Software Engineering & Applications, 19 November 2012 to 20 November 2012, Global Science and Technology Forum, Singapore, pp. 117-124.

Perez-Ariza, C.B., Nicholson, A.E., Flores, M.J., 2012, Prediction of coffee rust disease using Bayesian networks, Proceedings of the Sixth European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models, 19 September 2012 to 21 September 2012, DECSAI University of Granada, Granada Spain, pp. 259-266.

Mascaro, S., Nicholson, A.E., Korb, K.B., 2011, Anomaly detection in vessel tracks using Bayesian networks, Proceedings of the Eighth UAI Bayesian Modeling Applications Workshop, 14 July 2011, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Aachen Germany, pp. 99-107.

Wen, Y., Korb, K.B., Nicholson, A.E., 2009, Datazapper: Generating incomplete datasets, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2009), 19 January 2009 to 21 January 2009, INSTICC Press, Setubal Portugal, pp. 69-76.

Zandara, S., Nicholson, A.E., 2009, Square root unscented particle filtering for grid mapping, Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Joint Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI 2009), 1 December 2009 to 4 December 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 121-130.

Woodberry, O.G., Korb, K.B., Nicholson, A.E., 2009, Testing punctuated equilibrium theory using evolutionary activity statistics, Proceedings of the 4th Australian Conference on Artificial Life: Borrowing from Biology (ACAL 2009), 1 December 2009 to 4 December 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 86-95.

Thomas, C., Nicholson, A.E., Hart, B.T., 2008, Observations from field trials with several elicitation techniques in an ecological domain, Proceedings of the Sixth UAI Bayesian Modelling Applications Workshop, 9 July 2008 to 9 July 2008, CEUR-WS.org, on line, pp. 1-9.

Woodberry, O.G., Korb, K.B., Nicholson, A.E., 2008, Species selection of aging for the sake of diversity, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 5 August 2008 to 8 August 2008, The MIT Press, London England UK, pp. 710-716.

Weymouth, G.T., Boneh, T., Newham, P., Bally, J., Potts, R., Nicholson, A.E., Korb, K.B., 2007, Dealing with uncertainty in fog forecasting for major airports in Australia, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew, 22 July 2007 to 27 July 2007, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile, pp. 73-76.

Newham, P., Boneh, T., Weymouth, G.T., Potts, R., Bally, J., Nicholson, A.E., Korb, K.B., 2007, Fog forecasting at Melbourne airport using Bayesian networks, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew, 22 July 2007 to 27 July 2007, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile, pp. 291-294.

Jimenez Andrioli, P.A., Shirinzadeh, B., Nicholson, A.E., Alici, G., 2007, Optimal area covering using genetic algorithms, Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/ASME International Conference on the Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM2007), 4 September 2007 to 7 September 2007, Institute of Electrical Engineers, USA, pp. 1-5.

O'Donnell, R.T., Nicholson, A.E., Han, B., Korb, K.B., Alam, M.J., Hope, L.R., 2006, Causal discovery with prior information, Proceedings of the 19th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI 2006), 4 December 2006 to 8 December 2006, Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 1162-1167.

Tang, A., Jin, Y., Han, J., Nicholson, A.E., 2006, Predicting change impact in architecture design with Bayesian Belief Networks, Proceedings of the 5th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2005), 06 November 2005 to 10 November 2005, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 67-76.

Mascaro, S., Korb, K.B., Nicholson, A.E., 2005, An aLife investigation on the origins of dimorphic parental investments, Proceedings of the Australian Conference on Artificial Life: Advances in Artificial Life, 05 December 2005 to 08 December 2005, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd, Singapore, pp. 171-185.

Thomas, C., Hart, B.T., Nicholson, A.E., Grace, M.R., Brodie, J., Pollino, C., 2005, Development of criteria for simplifing ecological risk models, MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, 12/12/2005 to 15/12/2005, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, Australia, pp. 772-778.

Pollino, C., Woodberry, O.G., Nicholson, A.E., Korb, K.B., 2005, Parameterising Bayesian networks: a case study in ecological risk assessment, Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Simulation and Modelling, 17 January 2005 to 19 january 2005, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok Thailand, pp. 289-297.

Woodberry, O.G., Korb, K.B., Nicholson, A.E., 2005, The Evolution of Aging, Proceedings of the Australian Conference on Artificial Life, Recent Adances in Artificial Life: Advances in Natural Computation, 05 December 2005 to 08 December 2005, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd, Singapore, pp. 319-333.

Bally, J., Boneh, T., Nicholson, A.E., Korb, K.B., 2004, Developing an ontology for the meteorological forecasting process, Decision Support in an Uncertain and Complex World: Proceedings of the 2004 IFIP International Conference on Decision Support Systems (DSS 2004), 01 July 2004 to 03 July 2004, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 70-81.

Woodberry, O.G., Nicholson, A.E., Korb, K.B., Pollino, C., 2004, Parameterising Bayesian networks, Proceedings of the 17th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI 2004), 4 December 2004 to 6 December 2004, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Berlin Germany, pp. 1101-1107.

Korb, K.B., Hope, L.R., Nicholson, A.E., Axnick, K., 2004, Varieties of causal intervention, Proceedings of the 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2004), 9 August 2004 to 13 August 2004, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Berlin Germany, pp. 322-331.

Stacey, K., Sonenberg, L., Nicholson, A.E., Boneh, T., Steinle, V., 2003, A teaching model exploiting cognitive conflict driven by a Bayesian network, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on User Modeling (UM 2003), 22 June 2003 to 26 June 2003, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 352-362.

Mascaro, S., Korb, K.B., Nicholson, A.E., 2003, ALife investigation of parental investment in reproductive strategies, Artificial Life VIII: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Artificial Life, 09 December 2002 to 13 December 2002, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA USA, pp. 358-361.

Nicholson, A.E., Boneh, T., Wilkin, T.A., Stacey, K., Sonenberg, L., Steinle, V., 2001, A case study in knowledge discovery and elicitation in an intelligent tutoring application, Uncertainty in Artifical Intelligence: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artifical Intelligence, 02 August 2001 to 05 August 2001, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, California USA, pp. 386-394.

Bud, A.E., Albrecht, D.W., Nicholson, A.E., Zukerman, I., 2001, Playing "invisible chess" with information-theoretic advisors, Game Theoretic and Decision Theoretic Agents: Proceedings from the 2001 AAAI Spring Symposium, 26 March 2001 to 28 March 2001, The American Association for Artificial Intelligence, CA USA, pp. 6-15.

Abrantes, M.J., Nicholson, A.E., 2000, Knowledge-Based Assembly Modelling for Assembly Sequence Planning of Mechanical Products, The Eighth International Conference on Manufacturing Engineering (ICME 2000), Sydney NSW Australia, 27-30 August 2000, Casual Productions, www.casual.on.net.

Bud, A.E., Nicholson, A.E., Zukerman, I., Albrecht, D.W., 1999, A Hybrid Architecture for Strategically Complex Imperfect Information Games, Proceedings of the 1999 Third International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems, Adelaide AUSTRALIA, 31 August - 1 September, 1999, IEEE, Inc., New Jersey USA, pp. 42-45.

Korb, K.B., Nicholson, A.E., Jitnah, N., 1999, Bayesian Poker, Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference, Stockholm SWEDEN, 30 July - 1 August, 1999, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, California USA, pp. 343-350.

Dettmann, E., Nicholson, A.E., Sonenberg, L., Stacey, K., Steinle, V., 1999, Bayesian Reasoning for Diagnosing Student Misconceptions about Decimals, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1747: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence, 12th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'99), Sydney NSW, 6-10 December 1999, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg Germany, pp. 486-487.

Zukerman, I., Nicholson, A.E., Albrecht, D.W., 1999, Evaluation Methods for Learning About Users, Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshop ML-4, Learning About Users, Stockholm SWEDEN, 31 July - 6 August 1999, pp. 83-90.

Albrecht, D.W., Zukerman, I., Nicholson, A.E., 1999, Pre-sending Documents on the WWW: A Comparative Study, Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm Sweden, 31 July - 6 August,1999, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., California USA, pp. 1274-1279.

Jitnah, N., Nicholson, A.E., 1998, A Best-First Search Method for Anytime Evaluation of Belief Networks, Proceedings of the 1997 Int. Conf. on Neural Information Processing and Intelligent Information Systems: Progress in Connectionist-Based Information Systems, Dunedin New Zealand, 24-28 November 1997, Springer-Verlag, Singapore, pp. 600-603.

Nicholson, A.E., Zukerman, I., Albrecht, D.W., 1998, A Decision-Theoretic Approach for Pre-sending Information on the WWW, Proceedings of PRICAI'98: Topics in Artificial Intelligence, Singapore, 22-27 November 1998, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 575-586.

Baum, J., Nicholson, A.E., 1998, Dynamic Non-uniform Abstractions for Approximate Planning in Large Structured Stochastic Domains, PRICAI'98: Topics in Artifical Intelligence, Singapore, 22-27 November 1998, Springer-Verlag, Berlin GERMANY, pp. 587-598.

Bud, A.E., Nicholson, A.E., 1998, Scheduling Trains with Genetic Algorithms, Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Progress in Connectionist-Based Information Systems, Dunedin New Zealand, 24-28 November 1997, Springer-Verlag, Singapore, pp. 1017-1020.

Nicholson, A.E., Zukerman, I., Oliver, C., 1998, Towards a Society of Affect-Driven Agents, Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison USA, 1-4 August 1998, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah USA, pp. 776-781.

Nicholson, A.E., Jitnah, N., 1998, Using Mutual Information to Determine Relevance in Bayesian Networks, Proceedings of PRICAI'98: Topics in Artificial Intelligence, Singapore, 22-27 November 1998, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 399-410.

Jitnah, N., Nicholson, A.E., 1997, A best-first search method for anytime evaluation of belief networks, Building Resource-Bounded Reasoning Systems, Rhode Island USA, 27 July 1997, AAAI Press, Menlo Park CA USA, pp. 69-73.

Nicholson, A.E., Dutta, A., 1997, Intelligent agents for an interactive multi-media game, ICCIMA'97 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, Gold Coast Australia, 10-12 February 1997, Watson Ferguson & Company, Brisbane Australia, pp. 76-80.

Nicholson, A.E., Fraser, K.M., 1997, Methodologies for teaching new programming languages: A case study teaching LISP, The Proceedings of the Second Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education, Melbourne Australia, 2-4 July 1997, ACM, New York NY USA, pp. 84-90.

Abrantes, M.J., White, C., Nicholson, A.E., 1997, Minimal infeasible sets of connections: a representation for efficient assembly sequence planning, Proceedings, 1997 IEEE International Sumposium on Assembly and Task Planning, Marina del Ray CA USA 7-9/8/1997, IEEE, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 275-280.

Albrecht, D.W., Zukerman, I., Nicholson, A.E., Bud, A.E., 1997, Towards a Bayesian model for keyhole plan recognition in large domains, CISM Courses and Lectures No. 383. User Modelling. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference UM97, Sardinia Italy, 2-5 June 1997, Springer Wien, New York NY USA, pp. 365-376.

Jitnah, N., Nicholson, A.E., 1997, treeNets: A framework for anytime evaluation of belief networks, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1244: Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning. First International Joint Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning ECSQARU-FAPR'97, Bad Honnef Germany, 9-12 June 1997, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 350-364.

Other

Twardy, C., Nicholson, A.E., Korb, K.B., 2005, Knowledge Engineering Cardiovascular Bayesian Networks from the Literature, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-25.

Nicholson, A.E., Korb, K.B., Mascaro, S., 2000, Evolving Self-Sacrifice: A Case Study in Experimental Ethics, (Poster) Proceedings of the Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Cognitive Science (ECCS 2000), 28-29 January 2000.

Teaching Commitment

Associate Professor Ann Nicholson is the Chief Examiner for the following units in the Faculty of IT;

• FIT1010 - Introduction to software engineering
• FIT1016 - Advanced project level 1
• FIT2003 - IT professional practice
• FIT2044 - Advanced project level 2

A/Prof Nicholson teaches the following units in the Faculty of IT;

• FIT1010 - Introduction to software engineering
• FIT1016 - Advanced project level 1
• FIT2003 - IT professional practice
• FIT2044 - Advanced project level 2

 

 

Community Service

(Current 2011)

• Board member, Australasian Bayesian Network Modelling Society (ABNMS)
• Editorial Board, Knowledge Engineering Journal
• Association of Rhodes Scholars in Australia: National Executive; Victorian Secretary
• Board member, Clarinda Primary School
• Coach, Emannuel South Oakleigh Cricket Club, U/11

 

Activities

Faculty academic committee

Member
Undergraduate Programs Committee
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Completed Supervision

Student:

Baum, J.

Program of Study:

Dynamic non-uniform abstractions for approximate planning in large structured stochastic domains. (PHD) 2006.

Supervisors:

Nicholson, A (Main), Dix, T (Associate).

Student:

Boneh, T.

Program of Study:

Ontology and Bayesian decision networks for supporting the meteorological forecasting process. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Nicholson, A (Main), Korb, K (Associate).

Student:

Caetano Abrantes, M.

Program of Study:

KNOWLEDGE-BASED ASSEMBLY SEQUENCE PLANNING. (PHD) 2002.

Supervisors:

White, C (Main), Nicholson, A (Associate).

Student:

Hope, L.

Program of Study:

Information measures for causal explanation and prediction. (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Korb, K (Main), Nicholson, A (Associate).

Student:

Jitnah, M.

Program of Study:

USING MUTUAL INFORMATION FOR APPROXIMATE EVALUATION OF BAYESIAN NETWORKS. (PHD) 2000.

Supervisors:

Nicholson, A (Main), Korb, K (Associate).

Student:

Mascaro, S.

Program of Study:

Abortion, rape and suicide: evolutionary ALife investigations of ethically contentious behaviour. (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Korb, K (Joint-Co), Nicholson, A (Joint).

Student:

Mitchell, M.

Program of Study:

AN ARCHITECTURE FOR SITUATED LEARNING AGENTS. (PHD) 2003.

Supervisors:

Nicholson, A (Main), Albrecht, D (Associate).

Student:

Thomas, C.

Program of Study:

Bayesian belief network development for ecological decision support in data-sparse domains: with a case study on tropical seagrass in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Hart, B (Main), Grace, M (Associate), Nicholson, A (Associate).