Publications, Presentations and other Writing

Publications

• [PhD Thesis] Mark Crowley. Equilibrium policy gradients for spatiotemporal planning. University of British Columbia. November, 2011.
• Mark Crowley and David Poole. Policy Gradient Planning for Environmental Decision Making with Existing Simulators. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Special Track on Computational Sustainability and AI.(AAAI-11). San Francisco, 2011.
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• Elizabeth Patitsas, Kimberly Voll, Mark Crowley and Steven Wolfman. Circuits and logic in the lab: Toward a coherent picture of computation. Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education. Kelowna, BC, Canada, 2010.
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• Mark Crowley, John Nelson and David Poole. Seeing the Forest Despite the Trees: Large Scale Spatial-Temporal Decision Making. Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI09). 126-134, Montreal,2009.
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• Awarded Best Paper!
  Mark Crowley. Representation and Reasoning in Large Scale, Spatial-Temporal Planning Problems in the Graduate Student Symposium at the Canadian Conference in Artificial Intelligence. Windsor, Canada 2008.
  I was chosen to give a full presentation of this work at the main conference after the symposium.
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• Mark Crowley, Brent Boerlage and David Poole. Adding Local Constraints to Bayesian Networks. Z. Kobti and D.Wu editors, Canadian Conference in Artificial Intelligence (CAI07), in Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI2007),Springer-Verlag, 344-355. Montreal, 2007.
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• Mark Crowley. Shielding against conditioning side effects in graphical models. Master's thesis, University of British Columbia, October 2005.
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Conference Presentations/Posters

• In May 2008 I was accepted to attend and present my work at the Graduate Student Symposium at the Canadian AI Conference in Windsor, Ontario. [Abstract/slides/poster]
• My presentation at Canadian AI 2007 in Montreal.

Other Presentations

• Department LaTex Seminar, September 2007.
• Election Theory: How voters and parties behave strategically in democratic systems presentation for the GT-DT reading group at UBC, 2006.
• Regret Based Incremental Partial Revelation Mechanisms by Braziunas and Boutilier presentation for the GT-DT reading group at UBC, October 2006.
• Large-Scale Spatial-Temporal Decision making in Forests under Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation presentation by Mark Crowley in October 2006.

Other Writing

• Evaluating Influence Diagrams (unpublished literature review)