Decision Support Systems 2
Lecture #2: Inference in discrete Bayesian networks
Time and place:
Friday 15 September 2000, 10:00-12:00 in Room E1-212
Responsible:
Uffe Kjærulff
Literature:
Robert G. Cowell, A. Philip Dawid, Steffen L. Lauritzen, David J. Spiegelhalter (1999),
Probabilistic Networks and Expert Systems
, Ch. 6, Springer.
Bruce D'Ambrosio (1999), Inference in Bayesian Networks
AI Magazine
, 20(2):21-36.
Supplementary literature:
Madsen, A. L. and Jensen, F. V. (1999),
Lazy Propagation: A Junction Tree Algorithm Based on Lazy Evaluation
, To appear in
Artificial Intelligence
.
Jensen, C. S., Kong, A., Kjærulff, U. (1995),
Blocking Gibbs Sampling in Very Large Probabilistic Expert Systems
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
, 42:647-666.
See slide #35 for further references.
Exercises:
Exercises only (.ps)
or
exercises with answers (.ps)
Slides:
44 pages on 11 sheets (.ps)
or
LaTeX and PIC files (.tar.gz)
Master copies of Chapter 6 of Cowell et al. and of the paper by Bruce D'Ambrosio are available in Camilla's office (C1-210).