CSCE 582 Spring 2006 Syllabus

CSCE 582 Spring 2006: Syllabus

The textbook is:

Jensen, Finn V. Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2001 (ISBN 0-387-95259). (Approximately $64 at amazon.com. This text is referred to as [J01].) Other recommended books on the topic are:

Kevin B. Korb and Ann E. Nicholson. Bayesian Artificial Intelligence. London: Chapman & Hall and CRC Press, 2004.
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 Monday, February 20, 2006. The final exam for the course will take place on Saturday, April 29, 2006, at 9am in the classroom (SWGR 2A15). 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: January 10, 12	Introduction	Introduction	None
2: January 17, 19	Causal and Bayesian Nets	Ch.1 [J01]	1.1 (short essay), 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 [J01], 2.1 [J96].
3: January 24, 26	Causal and Bayesian Nets (Ctd.)	Ch.2 [J96], Ch.1 [J01]	1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10 [J01]
4: January 31, February 2	Causal and Bayesian Nets (Ctd.)	(7) Ch.2 [J96], Ch.1 [J01]	TBD
5: February 7, 9	Building Models	Ch.3 [J96], Ch.2 [J01]	TBD
6: February 14, 16	Building Models (Ctd.) and Test	Ch.3 [J96], Ch.2 [J01] and Test	TBD
7: February 21, 23	Building Models (Ctd.)	Ch.3 [J96], Ch.2 [J01]	TBD
8: February 28, March 2	Learning, Adaptation, and Tuning	Ch.3 [J01], Section 3.4 [J96]	TBD
9: March 7, 9	Learning, Adaptation, and Tuning (Ctd.)	Ch.3 [J01], Section 3.4 [J96]	TBD
10: March 14, 16	Learning, Adaptation, and Tuning (Ctd.) and Test	Ch.3 [J01], Section 3.4 [J96]	TBD
11: March 21, 23	Decision Graphs	Ch.4 [J01], Section 5.5, Ch.6 [J96]	TBD
12: March 28, 30	Decision Graphs (Ctd.)	Ch.4 [J01], Section 3.4 [J96]	TBD
13: April 4, 6	Decision Graphs (Ctd.)	Ch.4 [J01], Section 3.4 [J96]	TBD
14: April 11, 13	Belief Updating	Ch.5 [J01], Ch.4 [J96]	TBD
15: April 18, 20	Belief Updating	Ch.5 [J01], Ch.4 [J96]	TBD