Hi UAI folks, I am teaching a course in risk analysis and decision theory at Department of Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. In the course we seek to solve all the risk analysis and decision problems using Bayesian Networks - we are using HUGIN - instead of the traditional fault tree or event trees. At the end of the course (June) the students are supposed to file a paper describing the modeling and results of an analysis of a selected topic. To mention a few of the topics selected by the students so far I can mention: Evacuation and rescue from a passenger vessel in the event of a fire; Impact of emissions from an incineration plant; Sustainability of energy resources. This year many of my students are not Naval Architects but from other disciplines. Among these there is a group of 7 Polish guest students whose main interest is on telecommunication. I have no knowledge on telecommunication, and no contact to that industry, and this is my reason for contacting UAI. I prefer the students to be working on a topic of their own interest, and therefore would appreciate if anyone had some suggestions for relevant assignments from the telecommunication area (or other areas) for my Polish students. The students will be working in groups of two and they are expected each to spend some 100 hours working on the topic. The report on the selected topic will, of course, be available to the person who suggested the topic. Cordially, Peter Friis
