DBNs were developed by Paul Dagum in the early 1990s at Stanford University's Section on Medical Informatics.
[3][4] Today, DBNs are common in robotics, and have shown potential for a wide range of data mining applications.
For example, they have been used in speech recognition, digital forensics, protein sequencing, and bioinformatics.
DBN is a generalization of hidden Markov models and Kalman filters.
[5] DBNs are conceptually related to probabilistic Boolean networks[6] and can, similarly, be used to model dynamical systems at steady-state.