CSE 574 Uncertainty and Decision Making in Artificial
Intelligence --- Winter 1996
Professor:
Steve
Hanks, hanks@cs.
- Office: Sieg 210, 3-4784
- Office hours whenever I'm around, or by appointment.
Email addresses:
Reading material:
- Pearl: Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent
Systems
This is the "required" text for the class, and we will read several
chapters. You can probably get by without buying it if you're
strapped for cash, though it's a nice reference book.
- Shafer and Pearl: Readings in Uncertain Reasoning
This is a nice collection of foundational papers on reasoning and
uncertainty, and we will read several selections. A copy will be
available in the GRAIL library.
- E.T. Jaynes: Probability Theory: The Logic
of Science.
Fragmentary edition of July 1995. This is an extremely interesting
technical and historical look at the foundations of probability
theory, statistics, and decision theory. Definitely worth looking
at for the reference list and historical perspective alone! The
math can be heavy going in places, but it's beautifully
written.
- Neapolitan: Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems, Theory
and Algorithms
A significant overlap with the Pearl book, so a good secondary
source for information about graphical models and propagation
algorithms. This is available from the Math Research library.
- Other papers to be arranged.
Course summary:
Here is a summary of the topics we covered and the readings, in HTML or Postscript.
hanks@cs.washington.edu (Last Update: 06/20/96)