BSS2: Inference in discrete Bayesian networks

Time and place: Tuesday 14 September 1999, 10:15-12:00 in Room C3-204
Responsible: Uffe Kj&aelig;rulff
Literature:
Supplementary literature:
Exercises: Exercises only (.ps) or exercises with answers (.ps)
Slides: 35 pages on 9 sheets (.ps) or LaTeX and PIC files (.zip)

Decision Support Systems 2

Lecture #2: Inference in discrete Bayesian networks

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.

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.

A master-copy of the paper by Bruce D'Ambrosio is available in Camilla's office (C1-210).