A new blog is taking form

I have gathered a lot of examples about the use of Bayesian Networks and Markov Processes during the last 15 years. That is why I have startet a new blog : Bayesian Networks and Markov Processes in Agriculture. The examples have been used for different lectures, presentations and workshops. At the moment, the examples are more or less scattered on different obsolete servers and some of them on my own hard disk.

My plan is to transfer the examples to the blog, when I have some spare time. In addition examples of current research will be included

Until now I have only made a few postings, mainly based on examples in Bedre Beslutninger med Bayesianske Netværk and Potential Application Areas for Bayesian Networks within Animal Production.

In addition to Bayesian Networks, the examples will include Markov Processes, as they are used in models of e.g. animal behaviour and epidemiological models and decision support in farm management.

Blog converted to Beta Blogger

During the weekend, I converted my blogs to Google's new beta Blogger. The most important result is a far more convenient handling of labelling/tagging individual posts. The conversion lead to some changes in layout. Google beta is based on a more user-friendly interface for designing the web-pages. I have tried to maintain the existing design, but I have added some new links in the sidebar

Among other new features is the possibility to create blogs with limited access, that is, only invited users can see the blogs, and the atom/RSS feeds for posts with a specific label.

Feed for News from the Danish Institute of Agricultural sciences

The home page of our Institute Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences links to a News page. I have now made a feed for these News item.

It happens that I forget to visit the page. With other news services I simply check my netvibes home page that indicates if any new items has arrived. Unfortunately the DIAS news page does not have a feed. During the weekend I discovered the PonyFish service and generated this feed for the news. If you use Firefox 2.0 or Internet Explorer 7.0 you should simply click on the link to get started. If not, copy the link location and paste it into your favourite feed reader.

Links added to home page

I have now added some links to the right panel in my DIAS home-pages.

The first part is a search box for searches within the different domains relevant for our research group based on the Google co-op platform. This has revealed some surprising results. Some outdated pages on our old server have a high page rank and show up in the top rankings after a google search. I am now trying to update links etc.

The second part are links to different projects. The first one is a link to the Nordic-Baltic Biometric Conference 2007 to be held 6-8 June 2007, at Research Centre Foulum. I think I have discussed the other links on this blog.

New version of Bayes Net home pages

Two of my home pages concerning bayesian networks have been relocated/redesigned. The first is examples of use of bayesian network in animal production, and the second is the web version (in Danish) of the article in Naturens Verden: Bedre Beslutninger med Bayesianske Netværk, which I coauthored with Steffen L. Lauritzen.

Network for Intelligent Farrowing Pen

Our application about the Intelligent farrowing pen of the future has been granted. The purpose is to establish a network between researchers, IT-companies and Housing companies. Lene Juul Pedersen is the project leader.