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# BMAW 2012
Bayesian Modeling Applications Workshop

### Proceedings of the Ninth UAI Bayesian Modeling Applications Workshop

### Catalina Island, United States, August 18, 2012.

Edited by

### Ann Nicholson *
John Mark Agosta **
M. Julia Flores ***

* Monash University, Faculty of Information Technology, 3800 Melbourne, Australia
** Toyota ITC, USA
*** University of Castilla-La Mancha, Computing Systems Department, Spain

## Full Proceedings

- BMAW '12 Full Proceedings

## Table of Contents

- Preface
- Program Committee
- Table of Contents

1. Using POMDPs to Forecast Kindergarten Students' Reading Comprehension 1-7
   Russell Almond, Umit Tokac, Stephanie Al Ortaiba
2. High-Level Information Fusion with Bayesian Semantics 8-17
   Paulo Costa, Kathryn Laskey, Kuochu Chang, Wei Sun, Cheol Park, Shou Matsumoto
3. Goal-Based Person Tracking Using a First-Order Probabilistic Model 18-25
   Thomas Geier, Stephan Reuter, Klaus Dietmayer, Susanne Biundo
4. Contrasting Temporal Bayesian Network Models for Analyzing HIV Mutations 26-33
   Pablo Hernandez-Leal, Lindsey Fiedler Cameras, Alma Rios-Flores, Jesus A. Gonzalez, L. Enrique Sucar
5. Incorporating Metadata into Dynamic Topic Analysis 34-43
   Tianxi Li, Branislav Kveton, Yu Wu, Ashwin Kashyap
6. Reactive Bayesian Network Computation using Feedback Control: An Empirical Study 44-54
   Ole Mengshoel, Abe Ishihara, Erik Reed
7. A State-Transition DBN for Management of Willows in an American Heritage River Catchment 55-64
   Ann Nicholson, Yung En Chee, Pedro Quintana-Ascencio
8. Conjoint Modeling of Temporal Dependencies in Event Streams 65-73
   Ankur Parikh, Asela Gunawardana, Chris Meek
9. Topics Over Nonparametric Time: A Supervised Topic Model Using Bayesian Nonparametric Density Estimation 74-83
   Daniel Walker, Eric Ringger, Kevin Seppi
10. On Approximate Inference of Dynamic Latent Classification Models for Oil Drilling Monitoring 84-91
    Shengtong Zhong

- Author Index

11-Feb-2013: submitted by Ann Nicholson
12-Feb-2013: published on CEUR-WS.org