LEADER 04669nam 2200589 450 001 9910464637403321 005 20200520144314.0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000058215 035 $a(EBL)3115824 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001162408 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11627714 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001162408 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11154222 035 $a(PQKB)11790830 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3115824 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3115824 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10781883 035 $a(OCoLC)922966171 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000058215 100 $a20131104d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLearning causal models of multivariate systems $eand the value of it for the performance modeling of computer programs /$fby Jan Lemeire 210 1$aBrussels, Belgium :$cVrije Universiteit Brussel,$d2007. 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $a"Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor in de ingenieurswetenschappen (Doctor in Engineering)." 311 $a90-5487-457-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""I Causal Inference""; ""Principles of Inductive Inference""; ""Classical Information Theory""; ""Maximum Entropy Principle""; ""Kernel Density Estimation""; ""Occam's Razor""; ""Kolmogorov Complexity""; ""Definition""; ""Minimum Description Length""; ""Kolmogorov Minimal Sufficient Statistic""; ""Regularities as Meaningful Information""; ""Typicality""; ""Sufficient Statistics""; ""Algorithmic Sufficient Statistics""; ""Conclusions of Chapter""; ""Graphical Causal Models""; ""Independencies""; ""Correlation"" 327 $a""Qualitative Property and Qualitative Reasoning""""The Occurrence of Independencies""; ""Graphoid Properties""; ""Markov networks""; ""Bayesian Networks""; ""Representation of Distributions""; ""Representation of Independencies""; ""Graphical Causal Models""; ""Defining Causality: The Shadow's Cause""; ""Interventions""; ""Causally Interpreted Bayesian Networks""; ""Invalidity of the Markov Network Representation""; ""Causal Structure Learning Algorithms""; ""The PC Algorithm""; ""Assumptions""; ""Complexity""; ""Summary of Chapter"" 327 $a""The Meaningful Information of Probability Distributions""""Minimal Description of Distributions""; ""Compression of Distributions""; ""Minimality of Causal Models""; ""Correspondence of Causal Component to Decomposition""; ""A Distributed d-separation Algorithm""; ""Reductionism""; ""Validity of Causal Inference""; ""Faithfulness""; ""Summary of Chapter""; ""Information Equivalence""; ""Related Work""; ""Information equivalences""; ""Definition""; ""Equivalent Partition""; ""Assumptions""; ""Properties of Information Equivalences""; ""Augmented Bayesian Network"" 327 $a""The Complexity Criterion""""Complexity of Relations""; ""The Increase of Complexity""; ""Faithfulness""; ""Conditional Independence and Simplicity""; ""Deq-separation""; ""Faithfulness Revisited""; ""Constraint-based Learning Algorithms""; ""Equivalence Detection""; ""Equivalence selection""; ""Experiments""; ""Summary of Chapter""; ""II Performance Modeling""; ""Performance Analysis of Parallel Processing""; ""Parallel Performance Metrics""; ""Lost Cycle Approach""; ""Overhead Ratios""; ""Overhead Classification""; ""Granularity""; ""Parameter Dependence""; ""Tool""; ""EPPA"" 327 $a""EPPA Measurement Overhead""""Related Performance Analysis Tools""; ""Summary of Chapter""; ""Qualitative Multivariate Analysis""; ""EPDA""; ""Visualization Facilities""; ""Statistical Technologies""; ""Outlier Detection""; ""Probability Table Compression""; ""Sequential Experiment Probing""; ""Loading Parallel Performance Data""; ""The Modeling Process""; ""Causal Structure Learning""; ""Pearson Correlation Coefficient""; ""Information-Theoretic Dependence""; ""Independence Test Calibration""; ""Summary of Chapter""; ""Causal Inference for Performance Analysis""; ""Utility"" 327 $a""Support of the Modeling Process"" 606 $aAlgorithms 606 $aMultivariate analysis$xComputer programs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAlgorithms. 615 0$aMultivariate analysis$xComputer programs. 676 $a511.8 700 $aLemeire$b Jan$0947165 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464637403321 996 $aLearning causal models of multivariate systems$92140123 997 $aUNINA