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# BMAW 2008
Bayesian Modelling Applications Workshop

### Proceedings of the
Sixth UAI Bayesian Modelling Applications Workshop
Helsinki, Finland, July 9, 2008

Edited by

### Silja Renooij *
Hermi J.M. Tabachneck-Schijf *
Suzanne M. Mahoney #

* Utrecht University, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands
# Innovative Decisions, Inc., Vienna, Virginia, USA

## Table of Contents

Preface

1. Observations from field trials with several elicitation techniques in an ecological domain
   C.R. Thomas, A.E. Nicholson, and B.T. Hart
2. Relieving the elicitation burden of Bayesian Belief Networks
   B.W. Wisse, S.P. van Gosliga, N.P. van Elst, and A.I. Barros
3. A Bayesian approach to learning in fault isolation
   H. Wettig, A. Pernestål, T. Silander, and M. Nyberg
4. Hypothesis Management Framework: a flexible design pattern for belief networks in decision support systems
   S.P. van Gosliga and I. van de Voorde
5. An experimental procedure for evaluating user-centered methods for rapid Bayesian network construction
   M. Farry, J. Pfautz, Z. Cox, A. Bisantz, R. Stone, and E. Roth
6. The impact of overconfidence bias on practical accuracy of Bayesian network models: an empirical study
   M.J. Druzdzel and A. Oniśko
7. Evaluating probabilistic reasoning systems
   A. Darwiche and R. Dechter
8. Methods for representing bias in Bayesian networks
   E. Carlson, S. Guarino, and J. Pfautz

submitted by Silja Renooij, 21-Oct-2008
published on CEUR-WS.org, 21-Oct-2008