**Meet the editor**

Douglas McNair serves as a senior advisor in quantitative sciences—analytics innovation in global health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He assists the foundation's R&D in drug and vaccine development for infectious diseases, childhood diseases, and neglected tropical diseases. Current projects include product development programs in discovery and translational

sciences involving Bayesian networks. His activity also includes machine-learning and modeling of health economics collaborating with the Global Development Division. Previously, Douglas was President of Cerner Math Inc., responsible for artificial intelligence (AI) components of Cerner's EHR solutions, discovering AI predictive models from real-world de-identified EHR-derived Big Data. Douglas is lead inventor on more than 100 patents and pending patent applications, including several involving Bayesian predictive models for clinical diagnostics.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Networks 1** Douglas S. McNair

**Bayesian Method 5**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Timeliness of Advantages of Bayesian**

Nur Iriawan and Septia Devi Prihastuti Yasmirullah

Chapter 3 **Bayesian Networks for Decision-Making and Causal Analysis**

Bouchra Zoullouti, Mustapha Amghar and Sbiti Nawal

Chapter 5 **Continuous Learning of the Structure of Bayesian Networks: A**

Chapter 6 **Multimodal Bayesian Network for Artificial Perception 73**

Chapter 7 **Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship Modeling and**

Luiz Antonio Pereira Silva, João Batista Nunes Bezerra, Mirko Barbosa Perkusich, Kyller Costa Gorgônio, Hyggo Oliveira de

Diego R. Faria, Cristiano Premebida, Luis J. Manso, Eduardo P.

**Bayesian Networks: Optimality of Naive Bayes Model 89**

Rosa Maria Arnaldo Valdés, V. Fernando Gómez Comendador, Alvaro Rodriguez Sanz, Eduardo Sanchez Ayra, Javier Alberto Pérez

Chapter 2 **An Economic Growth Model Using Hierarchical**

**under Uncertainty in Aviation 21**

Chapter 4 **Using Bayesian Networks for Risk Assessment in**

Castán and Luis Perez Sanz

**Healthcare System 39**

**Mapping Study 55**

Almeida and Angelo Perkusich

Ribeiro and Pedro Núñez

Oleg Kupervasser
