Dr David Albrecht - Researcher Profile

Biography

David works in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University as a Senior Lecturer.

Keywords

Bayesian Networks, Design theory, Geostatics, Search theory, Support Vector Machines (SVM)

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN SCIENCE

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1995

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1986

Publications

Books

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.

Journal Articles

Byrne, M., Albrecht, D.W., Sanjayan, J.G., 2010, Identifying error and maintenance intervention of pavement roughness time series with minimum message length inference, International Journal of Pavement Engineering [P], vol 11, issue 1, Taylor and Francis, London UK, pp. 37-47.

Boyd, S.E., Kerr, F.K., Albrecht, D.W., Garcia De La Banda, M.J., Ng, N., Pike, R.N., 2009, Cooperative effects in the substrate specificity of the complement protease C1s, Biological Chemistry [P], vol 390, issue 5/6, Walter De Gruyter & Co, Berlin Germany, pp. 503-507.

Byrne, M., Albrecht, D.W., Sanjayan, J.G., Kodikara, J.K., 2009, Recognizing patterns in seasonal variation of pavement roughness using minimum message length inference, Computer-Aided Civil And Infrastructure Engineering [P], vol 24, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc., USA, pp. 120-129.

Byrne, M., Albrecht, D.W., Sanjayan, J.G., Kodikara, J.K., 2008, Identifying the effects of soil and climate types on seasonal variation of pavement roughness using MML Inference, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, vol 22, issue 2, American Society of Civil Engineers, USA, pp. 90-99.

Albrecht, D.W., Zukerman, I., 2007, Introduction to the special issue on statistical and probabilistic methods for user modeling, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: An International Journal, vol 17, issue 1-4, Springer Netherlands, Netherlands, pp. 1-4.

Byrne, M., Sanjayan, G., Albrecht, D.W., Kodikara, J.K., Martin, T., 2005, Application of data mining in pavement performance modelling - a case study, Road & Transport Research, vol 14, issue 4, ARRB Group, Vermont South Vic Australia, pp. 27-43.

Kornienko, L., Dowe, D.L., Albrecht, D.W., 2002, Message length formulation of Support Vector Machines for binary classification - a preliminary scheme, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol 2557, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 119-130.

Zukerman, I., Albrecht, D.W., 2001, Predictive statistical models for user modeling, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, vol 11, issue 1-2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht The Netherlands, pp. 5-18.

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.

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.

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.

Albrecht, D.W., Crossley, J.N., Jeavons, J.S., 1997, New Curry-Howard terms for full linear logic, Theoretical Computer Science, vol 185, Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 217-235.

Conference Proceedings

Bohnert, F., Zukerman, I., Albrecht, D.W., 2012, Realistic simulation of museum visitors' movements as a tool for assessing sensor-based user models, User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization: 20th International Conference, Proceedings, 16 July 2012 to 20 July 2012, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 14-25.

Larizza, M., Zukerman, I., Bohnert, F., Russell, R.A., Busija, L., Albrecht, D.W., Rees, G., 2012, Studies to determine user requirements regarding in-home monitoring systems, User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization: 20th International Conference, Proceedings, 16 July 2012 to 20 July 2012, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 139-150.

Bohnert, F., Zukerman, I., Albrecht, D.W., Baldwin, T., 2011, Modelling and predicting movements of museum visitors: A simulation framework for assessing the impact of sensor noise on model performance, Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization & Recommender Systems, 16 July 2011, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Aachen Germany, pp. 49-56.

Goodrich, B., Albrecht, D.W., Tischer, P.E., 2011, Training weighted SVMs using a generalized Schlesinger-Kozinec algorithm, Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 7 November 2011 to 10 November 2011, IEEE, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 2435-2440.

Goodrich, B.D., Albrecht, D.W., Tischer, P.E., 2010, Accelerating radius-margin parameter selection for SVMs using geometric bounds, Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 14 December 2010 to 17 December 2010, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 827-832.

Goodrich, B.D., Albrecht, D.W., Tischer, P.E., 2009, Algorithms for the computation of reduced convex hulls, Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Joint Conference AI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 1 December 2009 to 4 December 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 230-239.

Schmidt, D.F., Zukerman, I., Albrecht, D.W., 2009, Assessing the impact of measurement uncertainty on user models in spatial domains, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2009), 22 June 2009 to 26 June 2009, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 210-222.

Byrne, M., Albrecht, D.W., Sanjayan, J.G., 2008, An approach to identifying families in roughness progression through design group classification and MML inference, Proceedings of the 23rd ARRB Conference, 30 July 2008 to 1 August 2008, ARRB Group Ltd, Vermont South Vic Australia, pp. 1-15.

Byrne, M., Albrecht, D.W., Sanjayan, J.G., 2008, Interpreting time series roughness progression rates and identifying outlier types with MML inference, Proceedings of the 23rd ARRB Conference, 30 July 2008 to 1 August 2008, ARRB Group Ltd, Vermont South Vic Australia, pp. 1-15.

Oboler, A., Twardy, C., Albrecht, D.W., 2007, Super Iterator: A design for algorithm and data structure collections, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology, 02 April 2007 to 04 April 2007, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 677-678.

Byrne, M., Sanjayan, G., Kodikara, J.K., Albrecht, D.W., 2006, A minimum message length approach to inferring deterioration of pavements with family modelling, Research into Practice: Proceedings of the 22nd ARRB Conference, 29 October 2006 to 02 November 2006, ARRB Group Ltd, Vermont South Vic Australia, pp. 1-15.

Anthony, A., Marom, Y., Albrecht, D.W., 2006, Experiments with sentence classification, Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW 2006), 30 November 2006 to 01 December 2006, Australian Language Technology Association (ALTA), Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 18-25.

Molloy, S.B., Albrecht, D.W., Dowe, D.L., Ting, K.M., 2006, Model-based clustering of sequential data, Proceedings of the 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics & Related Fields, 16 January 2006 to 18 January 2006, Hawaii International Conferences, Honolulu USA, pp. 1233-1254.

Hurst, N., Marriott, K.G., Albrecht, D.W., 2006, Solving the simple continuous table layout problem, Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2006), 10 October 2006 to 13 October 2006, The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York USA, pp. 28-30.

Kornienko, L., Albrecht, D.W., Dowe, D.L., 2005, A preliminary MML linear classifier using principal components for multiple classes, Proceedings of the 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI 2005), 5 December 2005 to 9 December 2005, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 922-926.

Sheard, J.I., Albrecht, D.W., Butbul, E., 2005, ViSION: visualizing student interactions online, Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian World Wide Web Conference, 02 July 2005 to 06 July 2005, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW Australia, pp. 48-58.

Clarke, D., Albrecht, D.W., Tischer, P.E., 2004, An investigation into applying Support Vector Machines to pixel classification in image processing, 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 Germany, pp. 140-151.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thomas, I., Zukerman, I., Oliver, J.J., Albrecht, D.W., Raskutti, B., 1997, Lexical access for speech understanding using minimum message length encoding, Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference, Providence USA, 1-3 August 1997, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco USA, pp. 464-471.

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.

Other

Kornienko, L., Albrecht, D.W., Dowe, D.L., 2005, A Preliminary MML Linear ClassifierUsing Principal Components for Multiple Classes, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-80.

Teaching Commitment

Dr David Albrecht is the Chief Examiner for the following unit in the Faculty of IT:

• FIT1029 Algorithmic problem solving

In 2011 Dr Albrecht is teaching the following unit/s:

• FIT1029 Algorithmic problem solving

David also teaches; 

•  FIT1002 - Computer programming
•  FIT2014 - Theory of computation

Activities

Education

Course Director
Bachelor of Computer Science
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Faculty Liaison
John Monash Science School
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Faculty academic committee

Undergraduate Programs Committee
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Faculty executive committee

Elected member
Faculty Board
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Completed Supervision

Student:

Byrne, M.

Program of Study:

A data mining investigation into pavement roughness using minimum message length inference. (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Sanjayan, G (Main), Albrecht, D (Associate).

Student:

Kornienko, L.

Program of Study:

Implementing a Support Vector Machine in a Message Length Framework. (Masters) 2005.

Supervisors:

Albrecht, D (Joint-Co), Dowe, D (Joint-Co).

Student:

Mitchell, M.

Program of Study:

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

Supervisors:

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

Student:

Thomas, I.

Program of Study:

AN INFORMATION-THEORETIC APPROACH TO SPEECH RECOGNITION. (PHD) 2004.

Supervisors:

Zukerman, I (Main), Albrecht, D (Associate).