O. Patrick Kreidl: Research

With Alan S. Willsky, "An Efficient Message-Passing Algorithm for Optimizing Decentralized Detection Networks," submitted March 2007. [preprint]
With Tiffany M. Frazier, "Feedback control applied to survivability: a host-based autonomic defense system," IEEE Trans. on Reliability, 53(1), Mar 2004, pp. 148-166. [paper]

With Alan S. Willsky, "Decentralized Detection in Undirected Network Topologies," IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Aug 2007. [paper]
With Alan S. Willsky, "An Efficient Message-Passing Algorithm for Optimizing Decentralized Detection Networks," IEEE Proc. 45th Conference on Decision and Control, Dec 2006. [paper, proofs]
With Alan S. Willsky, "Inference with Minimal Communication: a Decision-Theoretic Variational Approach," Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Dec 2005. [paper, reference [8]]
With Martha L. Cooley and Gerald Cook, "Computer Simulation of a Robotic Golfer," IEEE Proc. 1993 Int. Conf. on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation, Nov 1993, pp. 1904-1909. [paper]

With Jason K. Johnson, "Exponential Family Graphical Models: Inference, Learning and Convexity," MIT Course 6.435 (Project Presentation), May 2005 [abstract]
"Collaborative Distributed Inference with Minimal Online Communication," The Learning Workshop, Apr 2005 [abstract]
"A Stochastic Control Approach to a Real-Time Computer Security Problem," Stochastic Systems Group, Mar 2004 [abstract]
"Distributed Detection by Networked Sensors Receiving Local Measurements from Correlated Environments," Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (Ninth Annual Student Conference), Jan 2004 [abstract]
"Newton's Method for Optimal Control Involving Nonlinear Econometric Models," Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (Second Annual Student Conference), Jan 1997 [abstract]

MATLAB Software for Modeling, Optimization and Simulation of Decentralized Detection Networks [demo]
Graphical Models and Message-Passing Algorithms for Network- Constrained Decision Problems, Ph.D. Thesis, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2008. [thesis]
"Sensor Management in Multi-Stage Stochastic Control Problems with Imperfect State Information," MIT Course 6.291 (Project Report), Dec 2002. [report]
Distributed Cooperative Control Architectures for Automated Manufacturing Systems, S.M. Thesis, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996. [thesis]