David Dowe publications (for PSB99 tutorial, Hawaii, 1999)


David Dowe's PSB99 tutorial publications [mainly on MML] (and PSB99 panel members) :

Dowe, D.L., J.J. Oliver, T.I. Dix, L. Allison and C.S. Wallace (1993). A decision graph explanation of protein secondary structure prediction. Proc. 26th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii (January 1993), Vol I, pp669-678.

C S Wallace and D L Dowe: MML estimation of the von Mises concentration parameter, (Technical report 93/193) Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne, 21pp, 1993.

Wallace, C.S. and D.L. Dowe (1994a). Estimation of the von Mises concentration parameter using Minimum Message Length. Proc. 12th Australian Statistical Society conf. (Abstract), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Dowe, D.L., L. Allison, T.I. Dix, L. Hunter, C.S. Wallace and T. Edgoose (1996). Circular clustering of protein dihedral angles by Minimum Message Length. Proc. 1st Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB-1), Hawaii, U.S.A., January 1996, pp242-255.

C S Wallace and D L Dowe, " MML mixture modelling of multi-state, Poisson, von Mises circular and Gaussian distributions", Proc. 6th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A., 4-7 Jan. 1997, pp529-536. (Snob.)

Wallace, C.S. and D.L. Dowe (1997). MML Mixture Modelling of Multi-State, Poisson, von Mises Circular and Gaussian Distributions. Computing Science and Statistics (Vol. 28), Proc. 28th Symposium on the interface, Sydney, Australia, pp608-613, 1997. (Snob.)

D L Dowe and G E Farr, An introduction to MML inference, copyright D L Dowe and G E Farr, 1997.

T Edgoose, L Allison and D L Dowe (1998). An MML Classification of Protein Structure that knows about Angles and Sequences, pp585-596, Proc. 3rd Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB-98), Hawaii, U.S.A., January 1998.

D R Powell, D L Dowe, L Allison and T I Dix (1998). Discovering simple DNA sequences by compression, pp597-608, Proc. 3rd Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB-98), Hawaii, U.S.A., January 1998.

D R Powell, L Allison, T I Dix and D L Dowe (1998). Alignment of Low Information Sequences, in X Lin (ed.), Proc. Computing: the Australian Theory Symposium (CATS '98), Perth, Australia, 2-3 February 1998, Springer-Verlag, Singapore, ISBN: 98103083-92-1, 20: 3: 215-229.

Wallace, C.S. and D.L. Dowe (1999a). Minimum Message Length and Kolmogorov Complexity, Computer Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp 270-283 [and abstract].
[** This paper is the most downloaded "full text as .pdf" paper in the history of the Computer Journal, over 22% ahead of its nearest rival - see, e.g., Editorial, vol. 48, no. 4 (2005), p381. **]


Other
Data links, Minimum Message Length (MML) and Ockham's razor.
Chris Wallace (1933-2004) (developer of MML in 1968),
Bayesian networks,
clustering, mixture modelling and finite mixture modelling,
decision trees and decision graphs using MML,
Snob (program for MML clustering, mixture modelling and finite mixture modelling),
a probabilistic sports prediction competition (and further reading on probabilistic scoring),
chess and game theory research,
Feeding the world (www.thehungersite.com), www.TheRainforestSite.com and other do-goody sites.

  • Please e-mail me if you would like to know more. This chess and games page, http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/chess.html , was compiled by Dr. David Dowe, Dept. of Computer Science, Monash University, Clayton, Vic. 3168, Austra lia
    e-mail: d l d at csse dot monash.edu.au (Fax: +61 3 9905-5146)
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