Selected KBS Publications
Selected Books, Journal Articles, and
Book Chapters
- Mengshoel, O. J., Wilkins, D. C., Roth, D., "Initialization and
Restart in Stochastic Local Search: Computing a Most Probable
Explanation in Bayesian Networks, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and
Data Engineering," Volume 23, Issue 2, 235-247, 2011.
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- Mengshoel, O. J., , Roth, D., Wilkins, D. C,. "Portfolios in
Stochastic Local Search: Efficiently Computing Most Probable
Explanations in Bayesian Networks." Journal of Automated Reasoning,
Volume 42, Issue 2, 103-160, 2011.
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- Mengshoel, O. J., Wilkins, D. C., Roth, D., "Controlled Generation
of Hard and Easy Bayesian Networks: Impact on Maximal Clique Size in
Tree Clustering," Artificial Intelligence, Volume 170, Issue
16-17, November, 1137-1174, 2006.
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- Bulitko, V. and Wilkins, D.C., "Qualitative Simulation of Temporal
Concurrent Processes Using Time Interval Petri Networks," Artificial
Intelligence, Volume 144, Issue 1-2, 95-145, March 2003.
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- Sniezek, J. A., Wilkins, D. C., and Wadlington, P., "Training for Crisis
Decision Making: Psychological Issues and Computer-Based Solutions,"
Journal of Management Information Science. Volume 18, Number 4, 147-168,
2002.
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- Mengshoel, O. and Wilkins, D. C., "RAVEN: Bayesian Networks for
Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction," In Vassiliou, M. S. & Huang, T. S.
(Eds.), Computer Science Handbook for Displays, Rockwell Scientific
Publishers, pp 209-219, 2001.
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- Hsu, W. H., Ray, S. R., and Wilkins, D. C., "A Multistrategy Approach to
Classifier Learning From Time Series," Machine Learning 38 (1-2), pp.
213-236, 2000.
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- Donoho, S. and Wilkins, D. C., "Using Apprenticeship
Techniques to Guide Constructive Induction," Knowledge
Acquisition, Volume 6, 295-314, 1995.
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- Ma, Y. and Wilkins, D. C., "The Refinement of Inconsistent
Probabilistic Rule Sets for Classification Expert Systems,"
International Journal of Expert Systems, Vol 8, No. 1, 25-45, 1995.
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- Wilkins, D. C. and Ma, Y., "The Refinement of Probabilistic
Rule Sets: Sociopathic Interactions," Artificial Intelligence,
Volume 70, Number 1, 1994, 1-32.
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- Park, Y. T. and Donoho, S., and Wilkins, D. C., "Recursive
Heuristic Classification," International Journal of Expert
Systems, Volume 7, Number 4, 1994, 329-357.
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- Buchanan, B. G. and Wilkins, D. C. (eds.), Readings in Knowledge
Acquisition and Learning, Morgan Kaufmann, 907 pages, 1993.
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- Ma, Y. and Wilkins, D. C., "Induction of Uncertain Rules and the
Sociopathicity Property of Dempster-Shafer Theory," in Symbolic
and Quantitative Approaches for Uncertainty, R. Kruse and P.
Siegel (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag,
1991, 238–245.
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- Wilkins, D. C., "Knowledge Base Refinement as Improving an
Incorrect and Incomplete Domain Theory," in Machine Learning: An
Artificial Intelligence Approach, Volume III, Y. Kodratoff and R.
Michalski (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann, 1990, 493–513.
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- Wilkins, D. C., "Knowledge Base Refinement Using
Apprenticeship Learning Techniques," in Knowledge Representation
and Organization in Machine Learning, K. Morik (ed.), Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, 1989, 247–257.
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- Karp, P. D. and Wilkins, D. C., "An Analysis of the
Distinction Between Deep and Shallow Expert Systems," International Journal of Expert Systems, volume 2, number 1, 1989,
1–32.
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- Wilkins, D. C., Clancey, W. J. and Buchanan, B. G., "Knowledge
Base Refinement By Monitoring Abstract Control Knowledge," in
Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge Based Systems, J. Boose and B.
Gaines (eds.), Academic Press, 1988, 183–196.
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- Wilkins, D. C., Clancey, W. J. and Buchanan, B. G., "Using
and Evaluating Differential Modeling in Intelligent Tutoring and
Apprentice Learning Systems," in Intelligent Tutoring Systems:
Lessons Learned, J. Psotka, L. Massey, S. Mutter (eds.), Lawrence
Erlbaum, 1988, 257–279.
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- Wilkins, D. C., Clancey, W. J. and Buchanan, B. J., "Knowledge
Base Refinement By Monitoring Abstract Control Knowledge,"
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, volume 27, 1987,
281–293.
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- Wilkins, D. C., Clancey, W. J. and Buchanan, B. G., "An
Overview of the Odysseus Learning Apprentice," in Machine
Learning: A Guide to Current Research, T. M. Mitchell, J. G.
Carbonell and R. S. Michalski (eds.), Hingham, MA: Kluwer Academic,
1986, 369–373.
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Selected Refereed Conferences and
Workshops
- Grois, E. and Wilkins, D. C., "Learning Strategies for
Open-Domain Natural Language Question Answering," Nineteenth
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
Edinburgh, Scotland, July 30 – August 5, 2005.
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- Grois, E. and Wilkins, D. C., "Learning Strategies for Story
Comprehension: A Reinforcement Learning Approach," Twenty-Second
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML),
Bonn,
Germany, August 7-11, 2005.
- Wilkins, D. C. and Fried, D., "Multi-Agent Architectures
that Facilitate Apprenticeship Learning for Real-Time Decision
Making: Minerva and Gerona," AAAI Fall Symposium on
Mixed-Initiative Problem-Solving Agents, Washington D. C.,
November 3-6, 2005. Invited Paper. pdf
- Fried, D. M., Wilkins, D. C., Grois, E., Peters, S., Schultz, K.
and Clark, B. “The Gerona Knowledge Ontology and It’s Support for
Spoken Dialogue Tutoring of Crisis Decision Making Skills,” Workshop
on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems,
Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
IJCAI-03, August 2003.
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- Bulitko, V. V. and Wilkins, D. C., "Real Time Decision Making
for Ship Damage Control," Workshop on Real-Time Decision Support and
Diagnosis Systems, Proceedings of the National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), AAAI Press, Edmonton, Alberta,
2002, 37-46.
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- Sniezek, J. A., Wilkins, D. C., and Wadlington, P., "Advanced
Training for Crisis Decision Making: Simulation, Critiquing, and
Immersive Interfaces," Proceedings of the 34th
Hawaii
International Conference on Systems Sciences,
Maui, Hawaii.
January 5-7, 2001.
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- Hayes, C., Penner, R., Ergan, H., Lu, L,. Tu, N., Jones, P.,
Asaro, P., Bargar, R., Chernyshenko, O., Choi, I., Danner, N.,
Mengshoel, O., Sniezek, J., Wilkins, D. C. "CoRAVEN Model-based
Design of a Cognitive Tool for Real-Time Intelligence Monitoring and
Analysis," In Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International
Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
Nashville,
TN, October 2000.
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- Bulitko, V. V. and Wilkins, D. C.,
"Automated Instructor Assistant for Ship Damage Control,"
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Innovative Applications of
Artificial Intelligence, Orlando, pp. 778-785, July 18-22, 1999.
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- Bulitko, V. V. and Wilkins, D. C.,
"Learning to Envision: An Intelligent Agent for Ship Damage
Control," Proceedings of the Workshop on Machine Learning and
Intelligent Agents, ACAI-99,
Crete,
Greece, July 5-16, 1999.
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- Bulitko, V. V. and Wilkins, D. C.,
"Minerva-DCA: An Intelligent Agent for Ship Damage Control,"
International Conference on Practical Applications of Constraint
Technologies and Logic Programming, PACLP-99, London, England,
April 19-21, 1999.
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- Wilkins, D. C., Mengshoel, O.
J., Chernyshenko, O, Jones, P. M., Hayes, C. C., and Bargar, R.,
"Collaborative Decision Making and Intelligent Reasoning in Judge
Advisor Systems," In Proceedings of the 32nd Hawaii International
Conference on System Sciences, January 1999.
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- Grois, E., Hsu, W. H., Voloshin, M., and Wilkins, D. C.,
"Bayesian Network Models for Automatic Generation of Crisis
Management Training Scenarios." In Proceedings of the Ninth
Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence,
IAAI-98, Madison, WI, pp. 1113-1120, July 1998.
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- Hsu, W. H., Gettings, N. D., Lease, V. E., Pan, Y., and Wilkins,
D. C., "Heterogeneous Time Series Learning for Crisis Monitoring."
In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Multistrategy
Learning, MSL-98, Milan, Italy, June 1998.
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- Jones, P. M., Hayes, C. C., Wilkins, D. C., Bargar, R., Sniezek,
J., Asaro, P., Mengshoel, O. J., Kessler, D., Lucenti, M., Choi, I.,
Tu, N., and Schlabach, J., "CoRAVEN: Modeling and Design of a
Multimedia Intelligent Infrastructure for Collaborative Intelligence
Analysis," In Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International
Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, San Diego, CA,
October 11-14, 1998.
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- Mengshoel, O. J. and Wilkins, D. C., "Abstraction for Belief
Revision: Using a Genetic Algorithm to Compute the Most Probable
Explanation." In Satisficing Models: Papers from the 1998 AAAI
Spring Symposium, Stanford University, CA., AAAI Press, pp. 46-
53, March 1998.
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- Mengshoel, O. J. and Wilkins, D. C, "Genetic Algorithms for
Belief Network Inference: The Role of Scaling and Niching." In
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Evolutionary
Programming, San Diego, CA, pp. 547--556, March 25-27, 1998.
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- Mengshoel, O. J., Goldberg, D. E., and Wilkins, D. C, "Deceptive
and Other Functions of Unitation as Bayesian Networks." In
Genetic Programming 1998: Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference,
pp. 559--566, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, July 22-25,
1998.
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- Mengshoel, O. J., Wilkins, D. C., and Uckun, S, "Filtering and
Visualizing Uncertain Battlefield Data Using Bayesian Networks," In
Proceedings of the ARL Advanced Displays and Interactive Displays
Federated Laboratory Second Annual Symposium, College Park, MD,
February 1998.
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- Mengshoel, O. J. and Wilkins, D. C, "Abstraction and Aggregation
in Belief Networks." In Abstractions, Decisions, and Uncertainty:
Collected Papers from the 1997 Workshop, pp. 53-58, AAAI Press,
Menlo Park, CA, July 1997.
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- Ramachandran, S. and Wilkins, D. C, "Temporal Control Structures
in Expert Critiquing Systems," Fourth International Workshop on
Temporal Representation and Reasoning, May 1997.
- Mengshoel, O. J. and D. C. Wilkins, "Visualizing Uncertainty in
Battlefield Reasoning Using Belief Networks." In Proceedings of
the ARL Advanced Displays and Interactive Displays Federated
Laboratory First Annual Symposium, pp. P15-P22, Adelphi, MD, ARL
Adelphi Laboratory, January 1997.
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- Mengshoel, O. J. and Wilkins, D. C., "Recognition and Critiquing
of Erroneous Agent Actions," In Agent Modeling: Papers from the
1996 AAAI Workshop, M. Tambe and P. Gmytrasiewicz (eds.), pp.
61-68, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, August 1996.
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- Mengshoel, O. J. and Wilkins, D. C., "Towards an Approach to
Exploiting Domain Structure for Planning," In Proceedings of the
AAAI Workshop on Structural Issues in Planning and Temporal Learning,
Portland, OR, August 1996.
pdf
- Kuhn, K. M. and Sniezek, J. A., "Differential Effects of
Scenario Generation on Confidence and Uncertainty," Journal of
Behavioral Decision Making. Vol. 9, 231-247, 1996.
- Donoho, S. and Wilkins, D. C., "Odysseus2: Addressing the
Challenges of Apprenticeship," Eighth Knowledge Acquisition for
Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop, Banff, Canada, pp.
14.1--14.18, January 1994.
pdf
- Ma, Y. and Wilkins, D. C., "Induction of Uncertain Rules and the
Sociopathicity Property of Dempster-Shafer Theory," in
Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches for Uncertainty, R. Kruse
and P. Siegel (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Springer-Verlag, pp 238–245, 1991.
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- Donoho, S. and Wilkins, D.C., "Exploiting the Order of Observed
Problem-Solving Steps for Knowledge Base Refinement: An
Apprenticeship Approach," Twelfth National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, August 1994, 569-575.
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- Fu, M., Hayes, C. C., Wilkins, D. C., and West, E. W., "Using a
Goal-Directed Model of Design in an Expert Critiquing System,"
Proceedings of the Design Cognition and Design Education Workshop,
Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994.
- Park, Y. and Wilkins, D. C., "Representation and Control of
Knowledge Bases for Support of Multiple Tasks," Proceedings of
the Eighth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for
Applications, Monterey, CA, March 2–6, 1992, 51-57.
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- Ma, Y., Chandler, J. S., and Wilkins, D. C., "On the Decision
Making Problem in Dempster-Shafer theory," Proceedings of the
Fifth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence,
Cancun, Mexico, December 1992, 293-302.
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- Nicholl, S. and Wilkins, D. C., "Computer Modeling of
Acquisition Orders in Child Language," Proceedings of the Eighth
International Machine Learning Workshop: Computational Models of
Human Learning Track, Northwestern University, June 27–29,
1991, 100–104.
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- Ma, Y. and Wilkins, D. C., "Improving the Performance of
Inconsistent Knowledge Bases via Combined Optimization Method,"
Proceedings of the Eighth International Machine Learning Workshop:
Automated Knowledge Acquisition Track, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL, June 27–29, 1991, 23–27.
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- Nicholl, S. and Wilkins, D. C., "A Computational Model of
Brown’s Results on Morpheme Order Acquisition," Proceedings of
the Twelfth Annual Conference on Cognitive Science, University
of Chicago, August 7–10, 1991, 832–836.
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- Wilkins, D. C., "A Framework for Knowledge Acquisition and
Machine Learning," in Proceedings of the Sixth Knowledge
Acquisition for Knowledge Base Systems Workshop, Banff, Canada,
October 6–11, 1991, 37.1–37.11. Invited Paper.
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- Lu, L., Wilkins, D. C., Bian, Z. and Ying, X., "Minimum Error
Tree Decomposition," Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Boston, Mass., July
27–29, 1990, 155-162.
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- Ma, Y. and Wilkins, D. C., "An Analysis of Bayesian Evidential
Reasoning," Proceedings of the Pacific Rim International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Nagoya, Japan,
November 1990, 772-777.
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- Ma, Y. and Wilkins, D. C., "Computation of Rule Probability
Assignments for Dempster-Shafer Theory and the Sociopathicity of the
Theory," Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on
Artificial Intelligence, Monterey, Mexico, October 1990,
214–219.
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- Nicholl, S. and Wilkins, D. C., "Efficient Learning of Language
Categories," Proceedings of the Twelfth Cognitive Science
Conference, Cambridge, Mass., July 25–28, 1990, 455–562.
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- Park, Y. and Wilkins, D. C., "Establishing the Coherence of an
Explanation to Improve Refinement of an Incomplete Knowledge Base,"
Proceedings of Eighth National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, Boston, Mass., August 11–15, 1990, 511-516).
pdf
- Wilkins, D. C. and Tan, K. W., "Knowledge Base
Refinement as Improving an Incorrect, Inconsistent, and Incomplete
Domain Theory," Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop
on Machine Learning, Ithaca, June 30–July 1, 1989, Morgan
Kaufmann, 332–337.
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- Wilkins, D. C., "Knowledge Base Refinement Using Apprenticeship
Learning Techniques," Proceedings of the Seventh National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Saint Paul, Minneapolis,
August 21–26, 1988, Morgan Kaufmann, 646-651.
pdf
- Wilkins, D. C., "Machine Learning Techniques for Knowledge Based
Systems," Proceedings of the Scandinavian Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, Tromso, Norway, March 9-11, 1988,
359–361. Invited Paper.
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- Wilkins, D. C., "Knowledge Base Debugging Using Apprenticeship
Learning Techniques," Proceedings of the Knowledge Acquisition
for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop, Banff, November 3–7,
pages 40.0–40.14, 1986.
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- Wilkins, D. C. and Buchanan, B. G., "Debugging Rule Sets When
Reasoning Under Uncertainty," Proceedings of Fifth National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, August
11–15, Morgan Kaufmann, 448–454, 1986.
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- Wilkins, D. C., Clancey, W. J. and Buchanan, B. G., "Odysseus: A
Learning Apprentice," in Proceedings of the Third International
Machine Learning Workshop, June 1985, 221-223.
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- Wilkins, D. C., Buchanan, B. G. and Clancey, W. J., "Inferring
an Expert’s Reasoning by Watching," In Proceedings of the 1984
Conference on Intelligent Systems and Machines, Detroit, May
1984, 51-58.
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