CSCE 582 Fall 2003 Syllabus

CSCE 582 Fall 2003: Syllabus

The textbook is:

Jensen, Finn V. Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2001 (ISBN 0-387-95259). (This text is referred to as [J01].) Other recommended books on the topic are:

Robert G. Cowell, A. Philip Dawid. Steffen L. Lauritzen, and David J. Spiegelhalter. Probabilistic Networks and Expert Systems. New York: Springer, 1999 (ISBN 0-387-98767-3).
Jensen, Finn V. An Introduction to Bayesian Networks. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996 (ISBN 0-387-91502-8). (This text is referred to as [J96].)
Richard E. Neapolitan. Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems: Theory and Algorithms. New York: Wiley, 1990 (ISBN 0-471-61840-3).
Judea Pearl. Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems. San Francisco: Morgan-Kaufmann, 1988 (ISBN 0-934613-73-7).

The last day to withdraw without failure is Thursday, October 2, 2003. The final exam for the course will take place on Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 9am in the classroom (SWGR 2A21). This is the regularly scheduled time for courses taught from 9:30pm to 10:45pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The syllabus is tentative. The sections of the text listed under the ``lecture'' headings should be read before the corresponding class.

Week Begins	Lecture Topics	Readings	Homework
1: August 21	Introduction	Introduction	None
2: August 26, 28	Causal and Bayesian Nets	Ch.1 [J01]	1.1 (short essay), 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 [J00], 2.1 [J96].
3: September 4, 6	Causal and Bayesian Nets (Ctd.)	Ch.2 [J96], Ch.1 [J01]	1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10 [J01]
4: September 9, 11	Causal and Bayesian Nets (Ctd.)	(7) Ch.2 [J96], Ch.1 [J01]	TBD
5: September 16, 18	Building Models	Ch.3 [J96], Ch.2 [J01]	TBD
6: September 23, 25	Building Models (Ctd.) and Test	Ch.3 [J96], Ch.2 [J01] and Test	TBD
7: September 30, October 2	Building Models (Ctd.)	Ch.3 [J96], Ch.2 [J01]	TBD
8: October 7, 9	Learning, Adaptation, and Tuning	Ch.3 [J01], Section 3.4 [J96]	TBD
9: October 16	Fall Break (October 14) and Learning, Adaptation, and Tuning (Ctd.)	Ch.3 [J01], Section 3.4 [J96]	TBD
10: October 21, 23	Learning, Adaptation, and Tuning (Ctd.) and Test	Ch.3 [J01], Section 3.4 [J96]	TBD
11: October 28, 30	Decision Graphs	Ch.4 [J01], Section 5.5, Ch.6 [J96]	TBD
12: November 4, 6	Decision Graphs (Ctd.)	Ch.4 [J01], Section 3.4 [J96]	TBD
13: November 11, 13	Decision Graphs (Ctd.)	Ch.4 [J01], Section 3.4 [J96]	TBD
14: November 18, 20	Belief Updating	Ch.5 [J01], Ch.4 [J96]	TBD
15: November 25	Belief Updating and Thanksgiving	Ch.5 [J01], Ch.4 [J96]	TBD
16: December 2	Belief Updating (Ctd.)	Ch.5 [J01], Ch.4 [J96]	TBD