Joel Young's recent publications

Web Spidering

• Exploiting Locality in Searching the Web by Joel Young and Thomas Dean submitted to The 19th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Acapulco, Mexico, August 8-10, 2003. PDF Version

Sequencing By Hybridization

• Sequencing by hybridization using direct and reverse cooperating spectra by Samuel A. Heath, Franco P. Preparata, and Joel Young in The Sixth Annual International Conference on Research in Computatinoal Molecular Biology , Washington DC, April 18-21, 2002. Postscript version , PDF version .

Temporal Reasoning

• Introduction to Temporal Bayesian Networks by Joel D. Young and Eugene Santos Jr. in Michael Gasser (Ed.), Online Proceedings of the 1996 Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference , Postscript version.

  This is early work which has been superceded by the Probabilistic Temporal Network class of models.

• On Unifying Time and Uncertainty: The Probabilistic Temporal Network by Joel D. Young. Thesis presented to Air Force Institute of Technology, Air University, 1996. PDF version.

  Introduces the probabilistic temporal network, a graphical model integrating interval time and probabilistic inference.

• Probabilistic temporal networks: A unified framework for reasoning with time and uncertainty by Eugene Santos Jr. and Joel D. Young in International Journal of Approximate Reasoning , 1999, Volume 20, Pages 263-291. Postscript version .

  Details the structure of the probabilistic temporal network as well as a constraint satisfaction formulation for calculating the most probable explanation.

• Modeling Time and Uncertainty by Joel D. Young and Eugene Santos Jr. in submission. Draft available on request.

  Outlines the probabilistic temporal network with an emphasis on knowledge modeling techniques and application.

• Diatribe on Interval-Interval Relations by Joel D. Young, 5 Sep 2002 HTML version

  Geometric view of interval-interval relations and how to define "meaningful" relations.