Journal Publications

  1. Facundo Bromberg and Dimitris Margaritis (2009).
    Improving the Reliability of Causal Discovery from Small Data Sets Using Argumentation.
    Journal of Machine Learning Research, Special Topic on Causality, 10(Feb):301-340.
    [PDF]
  2. Facundo Bromberg, Dimitris Margaritis, and Vasant Honavar (2009).
    Efficient Markov Network Structure Discovery using Independence Tests.
    Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 35, pages 449-485.
    [PDF]
  3. D. Margaritis and F. Bromberg (2009).
    Efficient Markov Network Discovery Using Particle Filters.
    Computational Intelligence, Volume 25, Issue 4, pages 367-394.
    [PDF]
  4. Haitao Cheng, Taner Z. Sen, Andrzej Kloczkowski, Dimitris Margaritis, and Robert L. Jernigan (2005).
    Prediction of Protein Secondary Structure by Mining Fragments Database.
    Polymer, Volume 46, pages 4314-4321.
    [PDF]
  5. B. Moghaddam, H. Biermann, and D. Margaritis (2001).
    Regions-of-Interest and Spatial Layout for Content-Based Image Retrieval.
     Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 14, No. 3.
    Also available as MERL technical report TR2000-35. [Compressed Postscript | PDF]

Journal Publications (Submitted)

Refereed Conference Publications

  1. D. Margaritis (2010).
    Toward Provably Correct Feature Selection in Arbitrary Domains.
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 (NIPS*2009), Vancouver, Canada.
    [PDF]
  2. P. Gandhi, F. Bromberg, and D. Margaritis (2008).
    Learning Markov Network Structure using Few Independence Tests.
    Proceedings of the Seventh SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), pages 680-691.
    [PDF] (Copyright Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
  3. F. Bromberg and D. Margaritis (2007).
    Efficient and Robust Independence-Based Markov Network Structure Discovery.
    Proceedings of The Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pages 2431-2436.
    [PDF] (Copyright IJCAI)
  4. F. Bromberg, D. Margaritis, and V. Honavar (2006).
    Efficient Markov Network Structure Discovery from Independence Tests.
    Proceedings of The Sixth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM).
    [PDF] (Copyright Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
  5. B. Patterson and D. Margaritis (2005).
    Essential Hidden Variables: An Introduction.
    Proceedings of The Second Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI), Pune, India.
    [PDF]
  6. S. Yaramakala and D. Margaritis (2005).
    Speculative Markov Blanket Discovery for Optimal Feature Selection.
    Proceedings of The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM), pages 809-812, Houston, Texas.
    [PDF] (Copyright IEEE Computer Society)
  7. D. Margaritis (2005).
    Distribution-Free Learning of Bayesian Network Structure in Continuous Domains.
    Proceedings of The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pages 825-830, Pittsburgh, PA.
    [PDF] (Copyright AAAI)
  8. D. Margaritis and S. Thrun (2001).
    A Bayesian Multiresolution Independence Test for Continuous Variables.
    17th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), pages 346-353, Seattle, Washington.
    [Postscript | PDF]
  9. D. Margaritis, C. Faloutsos, and S. Thrun (2001).
    NetCube: A Scalable Tool for Fast Data Mining and Compression.
    27th Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), pages 311-320, Rome, Italy.
    [Postscript | PDF]
  10. D. Margaritis and S. Thrun (2000).
    Bayesian Network Induction via Local Neighborhoods.
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 12 (NIPS*1999), pages 505-511, Denver, Colorado.
    [BibTeX entry | Postscript | PDF]
    An extended version of the above is available as Technical Report CMU-CS-99-134, August 1999. [Postscript]
  11. B. Moghaddam, H. Biermann, and D. Margaritis (2000).
    Image Retrieval with Local and Spatial Queries.
    International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Vancouver, Canada.
    [Postscript | PDF]
  12. D. Margaritis and S. Thrun (1998).
    Learning to Locate an Object in 3D Space from a Sequence of Camera Images.
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), pages 332-340, Madison, Wisconsin.
    [BibTeX entry | Postscript | PDF]
  13. S. Waldherr, S. Thrun, R. Romero, and D. Margaritis (1998).
    Template-Based Recognition of Pose and Motion Gestures On a Mobile Robot.
    The Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pages 977-982, Madison, Wisconsin.
    [BibTeX entry | PDF]
  14. Tzi-cker Chiueh, Dimitris Margaritis, and Srinidhi Varadarajan (1997).
    Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Parallel Image Shape Indexer.
    Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Visual Information Systems (Visual'97).
    [Postscript | PDF]
  15. D. Margaritis and S. Skiena (1995).
    Reconstructing Strings from Substrings in Rounds.
    IEEE Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), pages 613-620.
    [Postscript | PDF]
  16. P. Stamatopoulos, D. Margaritis, and C. Halatsis (1994).
    Extending a Parallel CLP Language to Support the Development of Multi-agent Systems.
    ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC),pages 410-414, Phoenix, Arizona.
    [Postscript | PDF]
  17. C. Halatsis, P. Stamatopoulos, I. Karali, C. Mourlas, D. Gouscos, D. Margaritis, C. Fouskakis, A. Kolokouris, P. Xinos, M. Reeve, A. Veron, K. Schuerman, and L.-L. Li (1994).
    MaTourA: Multi-agent Tourist Advisor.
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies in Tourism (ENTER'94), Innsbruck, Austria.
    [Postscript | PDF]

Book Chapters (Refereed)

  1. D. Margaritis, C. Faloutsos, and S. Thrun (2007).
    NetCube: Fast, Approximate Database Queries using Bayesian Networks. In A. Mittal, A. Kassim and T. Tan (editors), Bayesian Network Technologies: Applications and Graphical Models, Idea Group Publishers, USA.

Workshop Publications

  1. G. Baltus, D. Fox, F. Gemperle, J. Goetz, T. Hirsch, D. Margaritis, M. Montemerlo, J. Pineau, N. Roy, J. Schulte, and S. Thrun (2000).
    Towards Personal Service Robots for the Elderly.
    2000 Workshop on Interactive Robotics and Entertainment (WIRE-2000), Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
    [Compressed Postscript | PDF]
  2. B. Moghaddam, H. Biermann, and D. Margaritis (1999).
    Regions-of-Interest and Spatial Layout in Content-based Image Retrieval.
    European Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI'99). Toulouse, France.
  3. B. Moghaddam, H. Biermann, and D. Margaritis (1999).
    Defining Image Content with Multiple Regions-of-Interest.
    IEEE Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL'99). Part of CVPR'99.
    Available as MERL Technical Report TR99-10. [Postscript | PDF]

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