Planning for success: The interdisciplinary approach to building Bayesian models

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

doi:10.1016/j.ijar.2008.05.005

Planning for success: The interdisciplinary approach to building Bayesian models

Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith, Beth Goldstein, Krol Kevin Mathias, Cynthia Isenhour

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	416-428
Number of pages	13
Journal	International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Volume	50
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2008.05.005
State	Published - Mar 2009

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was partly supported by NSF Grant ITR-0325063. The opinions expressed here are those of the authors and do not represent the Foundation, the University, or any social welfare offices. We thank Russell Almond for enabling communication between the computer scientists and social scientists about bowties, and we thank Joan Mazur for her work on the design of the HLE interface and her discussions of SCOT theory with several of the coauthors.

Keywords

Bayesian networks
Human-centered design
Knowledge elicitation
Planning
Social construction of technology

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Software
Theoretical Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Applied Mathematics

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