Raiyan

Hi, I need to perform inference using Bayesian Network for a part of my ongoing research. If someone knows some good open source software tool for BN, please let me know. I'm looking for a full fledged software tool, not an API or plugin. But that's also fine if no such tool exists. Thanks in advance. Raiyan

Could not agree more. Thanks a lot for the a well written post, BlueRose. Exactly ! that is my driving force.

Sometimes it's good to get this out of your mind and be busy with something for the time being. How about taking some time off to sort out things in your mind, make a life plan or just go somewhere and travel for a while.

Thank you for sharing the experience, surefire. Appreciate it a lot. I know that my supervisor is interested in interdisciplinary work, but don't know up to what extent I should expect support. I have a few research ideas floating around my head at the moment, some of them would involve collaborating with another researcher(s) from biology department. What is the generally accepted protocol for approaching another department with the intent of collaboration ? Can anyone give me some clue ?

Thanks for the insightful posting, Eigen. I can see that my first step should be to decide upon what I exactly want to do. You guessed it right, my background is informatics. Sadly enough I'm not well versed in environmental theory, biology, etc. I'm considering extensive self study and/or enrolling into courses in relevant discipline once I've decided the topic of my research. But end of the day, it all depends on the options available to me from the school.

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone could give me some clue on how to approach toward a goal of interdisciplinary research. Have you performed such a research, what were your expectations from the project at the beginning ? What are the challenges you faced, how did you over come them ? Did the outcome and/or end result meet your expectations ? As a student of computer science my research interest is (but not limited) to study environment and nature from the informatics point of view. I would also appreciate if anyone can shed some light on this in particular. Thanks for your time.