Research Interests

Bayesian Networks
Maximum Entropy Formalism
Machine Learning
Foundations of Bayesianism
Data Mining, Issues in Statistical Education
Intuitionistic Mathematics

Publications

  Year Title & Authors Others Note
  1998 Reasoning with Incomplete Information in a Multivalued Multiway Causal Tree Using the Maximum Entropy Formalism

Dawn E. Holmes and Paul C. Rhodes  
International Journal of Intelligent Systems Vol. 13 No. 9 September 1998 pp 841-859    
  1998 Using Maximum Entropy to Estimate Missing Information in Tree-like Causal Networks

Gerald R. Garside, Dawn E. Holmes, Paul C. Rhodes  
Proceedings: 7th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. La Sorbonne, Paris, France, pp359-366   
  1998 Efficient Computation of Marginal Probabilities in Multivalued Causal Inverted Multiway Trees given Incomplete Information

Dawn E. Holmes, Paul C. Rhodes, Gerald R. Garside  
International Journal of Intelligent Systems Vol. 14, No 6, pp 535 – 558    
  1999 Efficient Estimation of Missing Information in Multivalued Singly Connected Networks using Maximum Entropy

Dawn E. Holmes  
Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht    
  1999 The Efficient Estimation of Missing Information in Causal Inverted Multiway Trees

Gerald R. Garside, Paul C. Rhodes, Dawn E. Holmes
Knowledge Based Systems Elsevier Sciences B.V. Vol. 12 pp 101-111    
  2001 Independence Relationships Implied by D-separation in the Bayesian Model of a Causal Tree are Preserved by the Maximum Entropy Model

Dawn E. Holmes  
Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, AIP Conference Proceedings Melville New York   
  2001 Using Maximum Entropy to Estimate Mission Information in Tree-Like Causal Networks

Dawn E. Holmes, Gerald R. Garside, Paul C. Rhodes 
Vol. 20. Uncertainty in Intelligent and Information Systems: Advances in Fuzzy Systems – Applications and Theory    
  2002 Probabilistic Decision Support Systems with Maximum Entropy

Dawn E. Holmes 
Innovations in Decision Support Systems   
  2002 Incorporating Knowledge Expressed as Inequality Constraints into Bayesian Network Based Intelligent Systems by Maximizing Entropy

Dawn E. Holmes 
Proceedings of Int'l Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'02): Las Vegas, USA   
  2003 Extending Bayesian Networks to Decision Support Systems where the Prior Distribution is Incomplete: A Software Prototype

Dawn E. Holmes and Rick Hou 
Proceedings Int'l Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'03): Las Vegas, USA   
  2003 d-separation and Partial Correlation in Bayesian Networks with Incomplete Information.

Dawn E. Holmes and Samuel Frame  
Proceedings Int'l Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'03): Las Vegas, USA   
  2004 Maximizing Entropy for Inference in a Class of Multiply Connected Networks

Dawn E. Holmes  
24th Conference on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods. American Institute of Physics   
  2005 An Improved Generalized Variable Elimination Algorithm in Bayesian Networks

Dawn E. Holmes and Xiaofang Lei  
Proceedings Int’l Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI’05   
  2005 Review of Clarke, G.M. and Cook, D. (2004) A Basic Course in Statistics

Arnold. Dawn E. Holmes  
Statistical Methods in Medical Research 2005; 14: p 525   
  2005 Review of Daniel T.Larose (2005) "Discovering Knowledge in Data: An Introduction to Data Mining"

Wiley, Dawn E. Holmes 
Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 14. p 530-531. 2005   
  2005 Review of “Practical Statistics for Nursing and Health Care”.

J.Fowler et al. Wiley. Dawn E. Holmes  
Statistical Methods in Medical Research Vol. 14 p 433-434   
  2005 Optimizing Inequality Constrained Priors in Bayesian Networks

Dawn E. Holmes  
Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering. American Institute of Physics 25th Conference Proceedings American Institute of Physics   
  2006 Innovations in Machine Learning: Theory and Applications. Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing

Dawn E. Holmes and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds)  
Vol. 194. Springer   
  2006 Toward a Generalized Bayesian Network

Dawn E. Holmes  
Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering. 26th Conference Proceedings American Institute of Physics   
  2006 StatClass

Dawn E. Holmes and Lubella A. Lenaburg  
McGraw-Hill Learning Solutions ISBN- 13 978-0-07-339125-0    
  2007 Review of ‘Applied Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference from Incomplete Data Perspectives’ (Gelman A, Meng Xiao-Li Eds., 2004)

Wiley Dawn E. Holmes  
Statistical Methods in Medical Research   
  2008 The Reasoner: Volume 2, Number 3 March 2008

Editorial, Interview with Lakhmi C. Jain. Dawn E. Holmes  
The Reasoner  Refereed Journal article 
  2008 Innovations in Bayesian Networks. Theory and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence

Dawn E Holmes and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds)  
Springer  Book  
  2008 The Reasoner: Volume 2, Number 7 July 2008

Editorial , Interview with Richard Neapolitan Dawn E. Holme  
The Reasoner  Refereed Journal article 
  2008 Toward a Generalized Bayesian Network. (Re-printed in Innovations in Bayesian Networks with permission of the American Institute of Physics)

Dawn E. Holmes  
Springer  Refereed Book contribution 
  2009 The Reasoner: Volume 3, Number 4 - April 2009

Editorial, Interview with Keith Devlin Dawn E. Holmes  
The Reasoner  Refereed Journal article 
  2010 George Boole, Boole’s Laws of Thought, Tautology, Recursion, Theorems, Resolution and Hilbert’s Programme. Key Terms in Logic

Eds Jon Williamson and Federica Russo.  
Continuum Press  Refereed Book contribution 
  2010 The Efficacy of Intensive Statistical Programming Courses at the Undergraduate Level

Dawn E. Holmes and Nicole Ifill. Joint Statistical Meetings.  
American Statistical Association  Refereed Proceedings  
  2010 Why Making Bayesian Networks Objectively Bayesian Make Sense

Dawn E. Holmes. Causality in the Sciences. Eds. Phyllis McKay Illari, Federica Russo and Jon Williamson.  
OUP  Refereed Book contribution 
  2011 Data Mining: Foundations and Intelligent Paradigms. Volume 1: Clustering, Association and Classification

Dawn E. Holmes and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds) ***  
Springer  Book 
  2011 Data Mining Techniques in clustering, Association and Classification. Dawn E. Holmes, Jeffrey W. Tweedale and Lakhmi C. Jain. In Data Mining: Foundations and Intelligent Paradigms. Volume 1: Clustering, Association and Classification

Dawn E. Holmes and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds) 
Springer  Refereed Book contribution 
  2011 Advanced Modelling Paradigms in Data Mining. Dawn E. Holmes, Jeffrey W. Tweedale and Lakhmi C. Jain. In Data Mining: Foundations and Intelligent Paradigms. Volume 2: Statistical, Bayesian, Time Series and other Theoretical Aspects

Dawn E. Holmes and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds)  
Springer  Book
  2011 Advances in Intelligent Data Mining Dawn E. Holmes, Jeffrey W. Tweedale and Lakhmi C. Jain. In Data Mining: Foundations and Intelligent Paradigms. Volume 3: Medical, Health, Social, Biological and Other Applications

Dawn E. Holmes and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds)  
Springer  Refereed Book contribution 
  2012 Data Mining: Foundations and Intelligent Paradigms. Volume 2: Statistical, Bayesian, Time Series and other Theoretical Aspects

Dawn E. Holmes and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds)  
Springer  Book
  2012 Data Mining: Foundations and Intelligent Paradigms. Volume 3: Medical, Health, Social, Biological and Other Applications

Dawn E. Holmes and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds)  
Springer  Refereed Book contribution 
         
         

Books

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    Data Mining: Foundations and Intelligent Paradigms: Volume 1 Clustering, Association and Classification  Data Mining: Foundations and Intelligent Paradigms: Volume 2 Statistical, Bayesian, Time Series and other Theoretical Aspects 
book5 book6    
Data Mining: Foundations and Intelligent Paradigms: Volume 3 Medical, Health, Social, Biological and other Applications  Textbook for PSTAT 5A