Dr Kevin Korb - Researcher Profile

Biography

Kevin Korb is a Reader in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. He specialises in the theory and practice of causal discovery of Bayesian networks (aka data mining with BNs), machine learning, evaluation theory, the philosophy of scientific method, and informal logic.

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, Bayesian Networks, Expert Systems, Machine Learning, Simulation and Modelling

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.

Korb, K.B., Randall, M., Hendtlass, T. (eds), 2009, Proceedings of the 4th Australian Conference on Artificial Life: Borrowing form Biology (ACAL 2009), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany.

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

Korb, K.B., Thomason, N.R., 2000, The Declining Significance of Significance, SCSSE Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia.

Neil, J.R., Wallace, C.S., Korb, K.B., 1999, Bayesian Networks with Non-Interacting Causes, SCSSE Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia.

Korb, K.B., Wilken, P., Gardner, S. (eds), 1999, Psyche - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness, http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/psychefaq.html.

Neil, J.R., Korb, K.B., 1999, The Evolution of Causal Models: A Comparison of Bayesian Metrics and Structure Priors, SCSSE Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia.

Wu, X., Kotagiri, R., Korb, K.B. (eds), 1998, Research and Development in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany.

Neil, J.R., Korb, K.B., 1998, The MML Evolution of Causal Models, SCSSE Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Oliver, J.J., Korb, K.B., 1997, A Bayesian analysis of the doomsday argument, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Korb, K.B., McConachy, R., Zukerman, I., 1997, A cognitive model of argumentation, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Korb, K.B., Kopp, C., Allison, L., 1997, A statement on higher education policy in Australia, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Dai, H., Korb, K.B., Wallace, C.S., Wu, X., 1997, A study of causal discovery with weak links and small samples, Dept of Software Development, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

McConachy, R., Zukerman, I., Korb, K.B., 1997, Abductive argument generation and understanding, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Korb, K.B., Wallace, C.S., 1997, In search of the philosopher's stone: Remarks on Humphreys and Freedman's critique of causal discovery, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Wallace, C.S., Korb, K.B., 1997, Learning linear causal model by MML sampling, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Korb, K.B., 1997, Probabilistic causal structure, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Wilken, P., Korb, K.B. (eds), 1997, Psyche, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/.

Korb, K.B., 1997, Research writing in computer science, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Korb, K.B., Geard, N., Dorin, A., 2013, A Bayesian approach to the validation of agent-based models, in Ontology, Epistemology, and Teleology for Modeling and Simulation, eds Andreas Tolk, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 255-269.

Dorin, A., Korb, K.B., 2012, Creativity refined: Bypassing the gatekeepers of appropriateness and value, in Computers and Creativity, eds Jon McCormack and Mark d’Inverno, Springer, Berlin Germany, pp. 339-360.

Korb, K.B., Nyberg, E., Hope, L.R., 2011, A new causal power theory, in Causality in the Sciences, eds Phyllis McKay Illari, Federica Russo and Jon Williamson, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 628-652.

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.

Korb, K.B., Hope, L.R., Nyberg, E., 2009, Information-theoretic causal power, in Information Theory and Statistical Learning, eds Frank Emmert-Streib and Matthias Dehmer, Springer Science+Business Media, New York NY USA, pp. 231-265.

Korb, K.B., Mascaro, S., 2009, The philosophy of computer simulation, in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress, eds Clark Glymour, Wang Wei and Dag Westerstahl, College Publications, London UK, pp. 306-325.

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., 2008, Ethics of AI, in Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security, eds Marian Quigley, Information Science Publishing, Hershey PA USA, pp. 279-284.

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.

Korb, K.B., 1999, Probabilistic Causal Structure, in Causation and Laws of Nature, Kluwer Academic Publishers BV, Dordrecht Netherland, pp. 265-311.

Journal Articles

Brumley, L., Kopp, C., Korb, K.B., 2012, Cutting through the tangled web: An information-theoretic perspective on information warfare, Air Power Australia Analyses [E], vol IX, Air Power Australia, Noble Park Vic Australia, pp. 1-25.

Twardy, C., Korb, K., 2011, Actual causation by probabilistic active paths, Philosophy of Science [P], vol 78, issue 5, University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL USA, pp. 900-913.

Korb, K., Dorin, A., 2011, Evolution unbound: Releasing the arrow of complexity, Biology & Philosophy [P], vol 26, issue 3, Springer, Dordrecht Netherlands, pp. 317-338.

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.

Butchart, S.J., Forster, D.J., Gold, I., Bigelow, J.C., Korb, K.B., Oppy, G.R., Serrenti, S., 2009, Improving critical thinking using web based argument mapping exercises with automated feedback, Australasian Journal of Educational Technology [E], vol 25, issue 2, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), Australia, pp. 268-291.

Handfield, T., Twardy, C., Korb, K.B., Oppy, G.R., 2008, The Metaphysics of Causal Models: Where's the Biff?, Erkenntnis, vol 68, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 149-168.

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.

Yang, Y., Webb, G., Korb, K.B., Ting, K.M., 2007, Classifying under computational resource constraints: anytime classification using probabilistic estimators, Machine Learning, vol 69, issue 1, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 35-53.

Korb, K.B., 2007, Jon Williamson. Bayesian nets and causality: Philosophical and computational foundations, Philosophia Mathematica, vol 15, issue 3, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 389-396.

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.

Yang, Y., Webb, G., Cerquides, J., Korb, K.B., Boughton, J.R., Ting, K.M., 2007, To select or to weigh: A comparative study of linear combination schemes for superparent-one-dependence estimators, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol 19, issue 12, IEEE Computer Society, New York NY USA, pp. 1652-1665.

Brumley, L., Kopp, C., Korb, K.B., 2006, Causes and effects of perception errors, Journal of Information Warfare, vol 5, issue 3, School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth WA Australia, pp. 41-53.

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.

Korb, K.B., Nyberg, E., 2006, The power of intervention, Minds and Machines, vol 16, issue 3, Springer-Verlag, Dordrecht The Netherlands, pp. 289-302.

Korb, K.B., 2005, Bayesian informal logic and fallacy, Informal Logic, vol 23, issue 2, University of Windsor, Department of Philosophy, Canada, pp. 41-70.

Twardy, C.R., Korb, K.B., 2004, A criterion of probabilistic causation, Philosophy of Science: Official Journal of the Philosophy of Science Association, vol 71, issue 3, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago USA, pp. 241-262.

Korb, K.B., 2004, Introduction: machine learning as philosophy of science, Minds and Machines, vol 14, issue 4, Springer, Dordrecht The Netherlands, pp. 433-440.

Oboler, A.S., Squire, D.M., Korb, K.B., 2004, Software engineering for computer science research: facilitating improved research outcomes, International Journal of Computer & Information Science, vol 5, issue 1, International Association for Computer & Information Science, Mt Pleasant USA, pp. 24-34.

Hope, L.R., Korb, K.B., 2002, Bayesian information reward, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol 2557, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 272-283.

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.

Korb, K.B., Hope, L.R., Hughes, M.J., 2001, The evaluation of predictive learners: some theoretical and empirical results, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol 2167, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Berlin Germany, pp. 276-287.

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.

Viswanathan, M., Wallace, C.S., Dowe, D.L., Korb, K.B., 1999, Finding Cutpoints in Noisy Binary Sequences - A Revised Empirical Evaluation, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence, 12th Australian Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AI'99), vol n foo, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg GERMANY, pp. 405-416.

Neil, J.R., Korb, K.B., 1999, The Evolution of Causal Models: A Comparison of Bayesian Metrics and Structure Priors, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1574: Methodologies for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Third Pacific-Asia Conference PAKDD-99, vol n zhong and l zhou, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg Germany, pp. 432-437.

Korb, K.B., Oliver, J.J., 1998, A Refutation of the Doomsday Argument, Mind, vol vo 107 no 426, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 403-410.

Korb, K.B., 1998, The Frame Problem: An AI Fairy Tale, Minds and Machines, vol 8 no 3, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherland, pp. 317-351.

Korb, K.B., Kopp, C., Allison, L., 1997, Higher education policy in Australia, Australian Rationalist, vol 45, Rationalist Association of Australia Ltd, Croydon Australia, pp. 16-26.

Korb, K.B., Wallace, C.S., 1997, In search of the philosopher's stone: Remarks on Humpreys and Freedman's critique of causal discovery, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol 48, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 543-553.

Conference Proceedings

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.

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.

Dorin, A., Korb, K.B., 2010, Network measures of ecosystem complexity, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 19 August 2010 to 23 August 2010, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA USA, pp. 323-328.

Dorin, A., Korb, K.B., 2009, A new definition of creativity, 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. 11-21.

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.

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.

Brumley, L., Korb, K.B., Kopp, C., 2009, Using misperception to counteract noise in the iterated prisoner's dilemma, 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. 53-62.

Dorin, A., Korb, K.B., Grimm, V., 2008, Artificial-life ecosystems: What are they and what could they become?, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE XI), 5 August 2008 to 8 August 2008, The MIT Press, London England UK, pp. 173-180.

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.

Korb, K.B., Wen, Y., 2007, A heuristic algorithm for pattern-to-DAG conversion, Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 12 February 2007 to 14 February 2007, ACTA Press, Anaheim CA USA, pp. 396-401.

Brumley, L., Korb, K.B., Kopp, C., 2007, An evolutionary benefit from misperception in foraging behaviour, Proceedings of the Third Australian Conference on Progress in Artificial Life (ACAL 2007), 4 December 2007 to 6 December 2007, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 96-106.

Dorin, A., Korb, K.B., 2007, Building virtual ecosystems from artificial chemistry, Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Advances in Artificial Life (ECAL 2007), 10 September 2007 to 14 September 2007, Springer, Berlin Germany, pp. 103-112.

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.

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.

O'Donnell, R.T., Allison, L., Korb, K.B., 2006, Learning hybrid Bayesian networks by MML, 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. 192-203.

Brumley, L., Kopp, C., Korb, K.B., 2006, The orientation step of the OODA loop and Information Warfare, Proceedings of the 7th Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference, 04 December 2006 to 05 December 2006, School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth WA Australia, pp. 18-25.

Yang, Y., Webb, G., Cerquides, J., Korb, K.B., Boughton, J.R., Ting, K.M., 2006, To select or to weigh: a comparative study of model selection and model weighing for SPODE ensembles, Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2006), 18 September 2006 to 22 September 2006, Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 533-544.

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.

Hope, L.R., Korb, K.B., 2005, An information-theoretic causal power theory, 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. 805-811.

Yang, Y., Korb, K.B., Ting, K.M., Webb, G., 2005, Ensemble selection for SuperParent-One-Dependence estimators, 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. 102-112.

Brumley, L., Kopp, C., Korb, K.B., 2005, Misperception, self-deception and information warfare, Proceedings of the 6th Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference, 24 November 2005 to 25 November 2005, School of Information Systems, Deakin University, Geelong Vic Australia, pp. 125-130.

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.

Collie, M.J., Korb, K.B., 2005, Simulating Risk-Aversion in Empirical Stock Returns Distributions, Econophysics Colloqium, 14/11/2005 to 18/11/2005, Australian National University, Canberra ACT Australia, p. 1.

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.

Hope, L.R., Korb, K.B., 2004, A Bayesian metric for evaluating machine learning algorithms, 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. 991-997.

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.

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.

Oboler, A.S., Squire, D.M., Korb, K.B., 2003, Why don't we practice what we teach? Engineering software for computer science research in academia, Proceedings of the 1st ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research & Applications, 25 June 2003 to 27 June 003, Springer-Verlag, Mt Pleasant MI USA, pp. 25-30.

Zukerman, I., McConachy, R., Korb, K.B., 2000, Using Argumentation Strategies in Automated Argument Generation, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG'2000), Mitzpe Ramon ISRAEL, 12-16 June 2000, Association for Computational Linguistics, New Jersey USA, pp. 55-62.

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.

Korb, K.B., 1999, Calibration and the Evaluation of Predictive Learners, Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence(IJCAI'99) Workshop EMP Empirical AI, Stockholm Sweden, 31 July - 6 August 1999, pp. 73-77.

Zukerman, I., McConachy, R., Korb, K.B., Pickett, D., 1999, Exploratory Interaction with a Bayesian Argumentation System, Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm SWEDEN, 31 July - 6 August, 1999, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., California USA, pp. 1294-1299.

Korb, K.B., 1999, Inductive Acceptance, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology & Philosophy of Science, Cracow Poland, 20-26 August 1999, Jagiellonian University, Cracow Poland, p. 237.

Neil, J.R., Wallace, C.S., Korb, K.B., 1999, Learning Bayesian Networks with Restricted Causal Interactions, Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference (1999), Stockholm SWEDEN, 30 July - 1 August ,1999, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, California USA, pp. 486-493.

Leslie, C.F., Thomason, N.R., Korb, K.B., Price, J., 1999, Neyman-Pearson Statistics are Inconsistent with Frequentism, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow Poland, 20-26 August 1999, Jagiellonian University, Cracow Poland, p. 241.

McConachy, R., Korb, K.B., Zukerman, I., 1998, A Bayesian Approach to Automating Argumentation, Proceedings of the Joint Conference on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, North Ryde NSW, 11-17 January 1998, ACL, Somerset USA, pp. 91-100.

Zukerman, I., McConachy, R., Korb, K.B., 1998, Bayesian Reasoning in an Abductive Mechanism for Argument Generation and Analysis, Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Amercian Assoc. Artificial Intelligence-98), Madison USA, 26-30 July 1998, AAAI Press/ The MIT Press, Menlo Park USA, pp. 833-838.

Zukerman, I., McConachy, R., Korb, K.B., 1998, Using Bayesian Networks for Abduction in Argumentation, Progress in Connectionist-Based Information Systems, Dunedin New Zealand, 24-28 November 1997, Springer-Verlag, Singapore, pp. 572-575.

Korb, K.B., McConachy, R., Zukerman, I., 1997, A cognitive model of argumentation, Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stanford CA USA, 7-10 August 1997, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah NJ USA, pp. 400-405.

Dai, H., Korb, K.B., Wallace, C.S., Wu, X., 1997, A study of casual discovery with weak links and small samples, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Japan, 23-29 August, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc, San Francisco USA, pp. 1304-1309.

Dai, H., Korb, K.B., Wallace, C.S., Wu, X., 1997, A study of causal discovery with weak links and small samples, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Nagoya Japan, 23-29 August 1997, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc, San Francisco USA, pp. 1304-1309.

Other

Korb, K.B., 2009, The problem with defamation of religion, Durban Review: The Durban 2 World Conference Against Racism 2009, Durban Review, http://www.durbanreview.org.

Hope, L.R., Korb, K.B., 2005, An Information-theoretic Approach to Causal Power, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-20.

Korb, K.B., Twardy, C., 2005, Causal Reasoning with Causal Models, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-45.

Webb, G., Yang, Y., Boughton, J.R., Korb, K.B., Ting, K.M., 2005, Classifying under Computational Resource Constraints: Anytime Classification Using Probabilistic Estimators, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-24.

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.

Korb, K.B., 1998, Commentary on Chabris, Commentary Magazine, The American Jewish Society, Canada.

Teaching Commitment

Kevin Korb is the Chief Examiner for the following units in the Faculty of IT;

• FIT3080 - Intelligent systems

 

Kevin teaches the following units in the Faculty of IT;

• FIT3036 - Computer science project
• FIT3080 - Intelligent systems
• FIT5047 - Intelligent systems

Activities

Education

Research Centre Director
Centre for Research in Intelligent Systems (CRIS)
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Faculty academic committee

Member
Faculty Research Committee
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

University committee

Faculty IT Representative
University Copyright Advisory Group
Monash

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Completed Supervision

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:

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:

Neil, J.

Program of Study:

MML DISCOVERY OF CAUSAL MODELS. (PHD) 2001.

Supervisors:

Korb, K (Main).

Student:

O'Donnell, R.

Program of Study:

Flexible causal discovery with MML. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Allison, L (Joint-Co), Korb, K (Joint).

Student:

Stillwell, M.

Program of Study:

Studies in Evolutionary Algorithms. (Masters) 2001.

Supervisors:

Korb, K (Main).

Student:

Viswanathan, M.

Program of Study:

TOWARDS ROBUST DISCOVERY SYSTEMS. (PHD) 2003.

Supervisors:

Korb, K (Main), Dowe, D (Associate).