Student Information for Davis, George

Name: Davis, George
Homepage: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gbd
Email: gbd[AT]andrew.cmu.edu
Research Keywords: computational models of sustainability
Affiliation: CASOS
Research:
I study machine learning and game theoretic analysis for systems in which networks of relationships have a significant impact. In particular I'm interested in economic networks, and have worked with data on virtual economies in massive online games, real-world international shipping networks, and financial models incorporating relationships between publicly traded companies. My primary tools are structured probabilistic models, which I use to relate data about a system to the relationships within it. These can be used for mining entities, relationships, attributes, and groups from data, or for inference about future system outputs. I also work on computationally efficient game theoretic models as an approach to decision making in systems where other participants might strategize about forming and utilizing relationships within a network.

Publications:

Davis, George B & Benisch, Michael & Carley, Kathleen M & Sadeh, Norman. (2007). Factoring Games to Isolate Strategic Interactions. International Conference on Automated Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2007. Extended version, CMU-ISRI-06-121R, [pdf]

Benisch, Michael & Davis, George B & Sandholm, Tuomas. (2006). Algorithms for Rationalizability and CURB Sets. American Association of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI), 2006. Nominated for Best Paper, [pdf]

Davis, George B & Carley, Kathleen M . (2007). Simultaneous Inference of places, Activities, and Behavioral Classes in Maritime GPS Traces. Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Institute for Software Research, Technical Report, CMU-ISRI-07-113, [pdf]

Davis, George B & Carley, Kathleen M . (2007). Computational Analysis of Merchant Marine Global Positioning Data. Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Institute for Software Research, Technical Report, CMU-ISRI-07-109, [pdf]

Davis, George B & Carley, Kathleen M . (2008). Clearing the FOG: Understanding Interstitial Relationships with Fuzzy, Overlapping Groups. Social Networks, 30, 201-212. [link]

Davis, George B & Olson, Jamie & Carley, Kathleen M . (2008). Unsupervised Goal Detection with Factor Graphs. proceedings of Sensor-KDD Workshop, ACM-SIGKDD, 2008, Las Vegas, NV. Best Paper Award., [pdf]

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