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Magdalena Ivanovska

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Magdalena Ivanovska

Biografi

I am an associate professor at the Department of Data Science and Analytics, BI Norwegian Business School. I hold a doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Oslo and a master´s degree in mathematics from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Before joining BI, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. My research work belongs to the area of artificial intelligence, focusing on topics from knowledge representation and reasoning, and uncertainty in AI. I am interested in decision making under uncertainty, probabilistic reasoning, probabilistic graphical models, judgment aggregation, and causality.

Office hours: By appointment

Publikasjoner

Ivanovska, Magdalena & Slavkovik, Marija (2024)

Probabilistic judgment aggregation with conditional independence constraints

303 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2024.105256 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

Probabilistic judgment aggregation is concerned with aggregating judgments about probabilities of logically related issues. It takes as input imprecise probabilistic judgments over the issues given by a group of agents and defines rules of aggregating the individual judgments into a collective opinion representative for the group. The process of aggregation can be subject to constraints, i.e., aggregation rules can be required to satisfy certain properties. We explore how probabilistic independence constraints can be represented and incorporated into the aggregation process.

Ivanovska, Magdalena & Slavkovik, Marija (2022)

Probabilistic Judgement Aggregation by Opinion Update

, s. 26- 37. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13448-7_3 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

We consider a situation where agents are updating their probabilistic opinions on a set of issues with respect to the confidence they have in each other’s judgements. We adapt the framework for reaching a consensus introduced in [2] and modified in [1] to our case of uncertain probabilistic judgements on logically related issues. We discuss possible alternative solutions for the instances where the requirements for reaching a consensus are not satisfied.

Hougen, Conrad D.; Kaplan, Lance M., Ivanovska, Magdalena, Cerutti, Federico, Mishra, Kumar Vijay & III, Alfred O. Hero (2022)

SOLBP: Second-Order Loopy Belief Propagation for Inference in Uncertain Bayesian Networks

Doi: https://doi.org/10.23919/FUSION49751.2022.9841392

In second-order uncertain Bayesian networks, the conditional probabilities are only known within distributions, i.e., probabilities over probabilities. The delta-method has been applied to extend exact first-order inference methods to propagate both means and variances through sum-product networks derived from Bayesian networks, thereby characterizing epistemic uncertainty, or the uncertainty in the model itself. Alternatively, second-order belief propagation has been demonstrated for polytrees but not for general directed acyclic graph structures. In this work, we extend Loopy Belief Propagation to the setting of second-order Bayesian networks, giving rise to Second-Order Loopy Belief Propagation (SOLBP). For second-order Bayesian networks, SOLBP generates inferences consistent with those generated by sum-product networks, while being more computationally efficient and scalable.

Yazidi, Anis; Ivanovska, Magdalena, Zennaro, Fabio Massimo, Lind, Pedro & Viedma, Enrique Herrera (2021)

A new decision making model based on Rank Centrality for GDM with fuzzy preference relations

297(3) , s. 1030- 1041. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.05.030 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

Preference aggregation in Group Decision Making (GDM) is a substantial problem that has received a lot of research attention. Decision problems involving fuzzy preference relations constitute an important class within GDM. Legacy approaches dealing with the latter type of problems can be classified into indirect approaches, which involve deriving a group preference matrix as an intermediate step, and direct approaches, which deduce a group preference ranking based on individual preference rankings. Although the work on indirect approaches has been extensive in the literature, there is still a scarcity of research dealing with the direct approaches. In this paper we present a direct approach towards aggregating several fuzzy preference relations on a set of alternatives into a single weighted ranking of the alternatives. By mapping the pairwise preferences into transitions probabilities, we are able to derive a preference ranking from the stationary distribution of a stochastic matrix. Interestingly, the ranking of the alternatives obtained with our method corresponds to the optimizer of the Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a particular Bradley-Terry-Luce model. Furthermore, we perform a theoretical sensitivity analysis of the proposed method supported by experimental results and illustrate our approach towards GDM with a concrete numerical example. This work opens avenues for solving GDM problems using elements of probability theory, and thus, provides a sound theoretical fundament as well as plausible statistical interpretation for the aggregation of expert opinions in GDM.

Ivanovska, Magdalena & Slavkovik, Marija (2019)

Aggregating Probabilistic Judgments

297, s. 273- 292. Doi: https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.297.18 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

In this paper we explore the application of methods for classical judgment aggregation in pooling probabilistic opinions on logically related issues. For this reason, we first modify the Boolean judgment aggregation framework in the way that allows handling probabilistic judgments and then define probabilistic aggregation functions obtained by generalization of the classical ones. In addition, we discuss essential desirable properties for the aggregation functions and explore impossibility results.

Zennaro, Fabio Massimo; Ivanovska, Magdalena & Jøsang, Audun (2019)

An empirical evaluation of the approximation of subjective logic operators using Monte Carlo simulations

111, s. 56- 77. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2019.05.005

Zennaro, Fabio Massimo & Ivanovska, Magdalena (2019)

Counterfactually Fair Prediction Using Multiple Causal Models

11450 LNAI, s. 249- 266. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14174-5_17

Ivanovska, Magdalena & Slavkovik, Marija (2018)

Aggregation of probabilisitic logically related judgments

Braines, Dave; Thomas, Anna, Kaplan, Lance, Sensoy, Murat, Bakdash, Jonathan Z., Ivanovska, Magdalena, Preece, Alun & Cerutti, Federico (2018)

Subjective bayesian networks and human-in-the-loop situational understanding

10775 LNAI, s. 29- 53. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78102-0_2

Kaplan, Lance & Ivanovska, Magdalena (2018)

Efficient belief propagation in second-order Bayesian networks for singly-connected graphs

93, s. 132- 152. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2017.10.031

Zennaro, Fabio Massimo & Ivanovska, Magdalena (2018)

Counterfactually Fair Prediction Using Multiple Causal Models

11450, s. 249- 266.

Ivanovska, Magdalena; Jøsang, Audun, Zhang, Jie & Chen, Shuo (2017)

Joint subjective opinions

10571 LNAI, s. 220- 233. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67422-3_19

Ivanovska, Magdalena & Jøsang, Audun (2016)

Predictive Reasoning in Subjective Bayesian Networks

29(1)

Ivanovska, Magdalena; Jøsang, Audun & Sambo, Francesco (2016)

Bayesian Deduction with Subjective Opinions

Ivanovska, Magdalena; Jøsang, Audun, Kaplan, Lance & Sambo, Francesco (2015)

Subjective Networks: Perspectives and Challenges

, s. 107- 124. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28702-7_7

Jøsang, Audun; Ivanovska, Magdalena & Muller, Tim (2015)

Trust Revision for Conflicting Sources

, s. 550- 557.

Kaplan, Lance; Jøsang, Audun & Ivanovska, Magdalena (2015)

Towards Subjective Networks: Extending Conditional Reasoning in Subjective Logic

Ivanovska, Magdalena & Giese, Martin (2011)

A Logic-based Approach to Decision Making

, s. 61- 72.

Ivanovska, Magdalena & Giese, Martin (2010)

Probabilistic Logic with Conditional Independence Formulae

215, s. 983- 984. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-606-5-983

Ivanovska, Magdalena & Giese, Martin (2010)

Probabilistic Logic with Conditional Independence Formulae

, s. 127- 139.

Ivanovska, Magdalena & Slavkovik, Marija (2023)

Probabilistic Judgment Aggregation with Conditional Independence Constraints

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Probabilistic judgment aggregation is concerned with aggregating judgments about probabilities of logically related issues. It takes as input imprecise probabilistic judgments over the issues given by a group of agents and defines rules of aggregating the individual judgments into a collective opinion representative for the group. The process of aggregation can be subject to constraints, i.e., aggregation rules can be required to satisfy certain properties. We explore how probabilistic independence constraints can be incorporated into the aggregation process.

Zennaro, Fabio Massimo & Ivanovska, Magdalena (2018)

Pooling of Causal Models under Counterfactual Fairness via Causal Judgement Aggregation

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Ivanovska, Magdalena & Giese, Martin (2012)

A Probabilistic Logic for Sequences of Decisions

[Conference Lecture]. Event

We define a probabilistic propositional logic for making a finite, ordered sequence of decisions under uncertainty by extending an existing probabilistic propositional logic with expectation and utility-independence formulae. The language has a relatively simple model semantics, and it allows a similarly compact representation of decision problems as influence diagrams. We present a calculus and show that it is complete at least for the type of reasoning possible with influence diagrams.

Giese, Martin & Ivanovska, Magdalena (2012)

Logics for Decision Making

[Conference Poster]. Event

Ivanovska, Magdalena & Giese, Martin (2012)

A Probabilistic Logic for Sequences of Decisions

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Akademisk grad
År Akademisk institusjon Grad
2014 Universitetet i Oslo PhD
Arbeidserfaring
År Arbeidsgiver Tittel
2025 - Present BI Norwegian Business School Associate Professor
2021 - 2024 BI Norwegian Business School Assistant Professor