Assignment 5 - Application Showdown - (Due 9/22, Wed, 6pm):

• Reading: none.
  
• We will have an application showdown on Thursday, September 23rd. Please find at least one real-world application of Bayesian Networks and and one real-world application of Markov Networks. You need to provide the references (such as the book name and authors, or the article title and authors, etc) for both of them. Describe the two applications separately in sufficient detail. Make sure to talk about what the random variables are (you don't have to list all of them one by one), which ones are continuous and which ones are discrete, and how they are parameterized (tables, functions, etc). Turn-in your write-up by 9/22, Wed, 6pm. You will also asked to present one of the applications in five minutes in class on Thursday, 9/23.
  

• You will be given five minutes to describe only one of the applications in class on Thursday. You can use the whiteboard, or prepare a powerpoint presentation, or a mix of the two. Here are the catches:
• We will draw names randomly to figure out the order of the presentations. Every presenter is given the choice to describe what he/she wants, unless it has already been presented by someone else. If what you want to present has been presented by the previous presenter(s), you will be asked to present the other application.
• Feel free to prepare a powerpoint presentation (you don't have to). If you do, keep these in mind:
• Make sure your presentation is either in PDF or readable by Openoffice 3.2. We will use only my laptop to save time; either bring the presentation file on USB or send it to me by email ahead of time.
  
• If what you want to present is already presented by the previous presenter(s), then you won't be able to use your powerpoint, unless of course, you prepare two powerpoint presentations.