Risk & Information Management

World Leaders in Applications of Risk Assessment with Bayesian Networks

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Fenton, Neil, Marsh

……Legal Reasoning

• E.g. Evaluating the impact of forensic evidence

• Helpings lawyers with statistical arguments

Fenton, Hsu, Neil, Marsh

…Medical

Yet, Marsh, Fenton, Neil, Pauran

• …Accurate Prediction of a Potentially Fatal Blood Clotting Problem (ATC) in Early Trauma Care

e.g. Decision Support for Trauma Surgery

…Financial

Neil, Fenton, Lin

e.g. predicting value at risk

…Football Prediction

Constantinou, Fenton, Neil

Information Retrieval

• Seamless integration of database (DB) and information retrieval (IR) technologies        

Roellecke, Azzam

e.g. New algorithm for measuring mental categories

Category of Happy Faces

Human Cognition

Hsu

Thermodynamics of Confidentiality

Malacaria, Smeraldi

Just like forging a bigger lock, running a safer algorithm requires more energy

The energy involved is tiny, but enough to affect the dynamics of e.g. a molecular computer

Source: E. Shapiro and Y. Benenson, bringing DNA computersto life, Scientific American, May 2006

Unifying Active Discovery and Learninginteractively explore what categories are present in a new domain and learn to differentiate them… with minimal number of human interactions E.g., discover and learn to detect hacking attempts

• Image Databases• Network Security• Surveillance• Medicine• Astronomy

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