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Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence - Main association for belief network researchers. Runs the annual Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) conferences, and the UAI mailing list.

Qualitative Verbal Explanations in Bayesian Belief Networks - Paper about combining probabilistic models and human-intuitive approaches to modeling uncertainty by generating qualitative verbal explanations of reasoning.

Query DAGs: A Practical Paradigm for Implementing Belief-Network Inference - Article published in JAIR (Journal of AI Research) about a way to implement belief networks by compiling networks into arithmetic expressions and then answering queries using an evaluation algorithm.

Belief Networks and Variational Methods : Amos Storkey - Dynamic Trees are mixtures of tree structured belief networks, and are used as models for image segmentation and tracking.

UConn list of Bayesian Network Resources - Eugene Santos' lists of belief network research, papers, systems etc.

A Brief Introduction to Graphical Models and Bayesian Networks - Kevin Murphy's tutorial, including a recommended reading list.

B-Course - Dependence and classification modeling - A free, interactive tutorial on Bayesian modeling, in particular dependence and classification modeling.

Cause, chance and Bayesian statistics - Briefing document with a short survey of Bayesian statistics

Learning Bayesian Networks from Data - Slides and additional notes from a tutorial by Nir Friedman and Daphne Koller on automated learning of belief networks, given at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS-2001) conference

Belief Revision - Software, publications, teaching material, and news on belief revision - from the Business and Technology Research Laboratory at the University of Newcastle, Australia

Daphne's Approximate Group of Students (DAGS) - Daphne Koller's research group on probabilistic representation, reasoning, and learning at Stanford University

An Introduction to Bayesian Networks and Their Contemporary Applications - A survey and tutorial by Daryle Niedermayer - covers material on Bayesian inference in general and selected industrial applications of graphical models

Decision Systems Lab (DSL) - Research group at the University of Pittsburgh with links to books and software on probabilistic, decision-theoretic, and econometric graphical models

Bayesian Network Repository - Maintained by Gal Elidan - over a dozen publicly available networks with documentation, in several popular interchange formats

Microsoft Belief Network Tools - Free Windows software for creation, assessment and evaluation of belief networks.

Software for Manipulating Belief Networks - Reviews free and commercial belief network software. No longer updated, but the reviews are comprehensive.

MIM - Windows program for graphical modelling.

Lumina Decision Systems - Makers of Analytica, visual software tool for creating, analyzing, and communicating quantitative business models.

Knowledge Industries, Inc. - Builds and licenses diagnostic software based upon Bayesian Belief Networks for medical, industrial and management applications. Software includes editors/compilers, test/review tools and inference engines embeddable in stand-alone and web-based applications.

Complex Systems Computation Group (CoSCo) - BAYDA software implements Bayesian predictive discriminant analysis, where the aim is to build a model for predicting the value of one discrete (class, group, category) variable using other variables.

Pulcinella - Tool for propagating uncertainty through local computations based on the general framework of valuation systems proposed by Shenoy and Shafer.

Norsys Software Corp. - Netica is a complete program for working with belief networks and influence diagrams. Feature compiles belief (Bayesian) networks into a junction tree of cliques for fast probabilistic reasoning.

BUGS - Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling - Bayesian analysis of complex statistical models using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods.

JavaBayes - Bayesian networks in Java.

Pronel - Data mining tool for extracting Bayesian networks from data.

Genie/Smile - GeNIe is a development environment for building graphical decision-theoretic models running under Windows operating systems. SMILE is its portable inference engine, consisting of a library of C++ classes, currently compiled for Windows, Solaris and Linux.

XBAIES - Rob Cowell's windows-based system for bayesian network inference and learning.

CoCo - Model selection on graphical models (including belief networks).

Belief Net Power Constructor - System based on Jie Cheng's three-phase belief network construction algorithm. Includes a wizard-like user interface and a belief network construction engine.

Bayesian Knowledge Discoverer - Able to learn Bayesian Belief Networks from (possibly incomplete) databases. Algorithm based on the Bound and Collapse estimation method.

BayesBuilder - A tool for constructing and testing Bayesian networks.

BucketElim - UNIX and Windows NT bucket-elimination inference software for belief networks.

Ergo - A Bayesian network editor and solver. [Windows/Macintosh]

WebWEavr-III - WEBWEAVR-III is a Java application that supports the construction of Bayesian networks, inference in standard and dynamic Bayesian networks and decomposable Markov networks, construction and verification of multiply-sectioned Bayesian networks (MSBNs), inference in multi-agent MSBNs, and learning decomposable Markov networks.

Bayesian Belief and Decision Networks Applet - CISpace tools for learning about belief networks: a set of Java applets and example networks.

Bayesian Network Toolbox (BNT) - Kevin Murphy's MATLAB toolbox - supports dynamic BNs, decision networks, many exact and approximate inference algorithms, parameter estimation, and structure learning

RISO - Robert Dodier's open source package for distributed, heterogeneous belief networks in Java - allows different conditional distributions

DEAL - Open source package for the technical computing language R, developed by Aalborg University and Novo Nordisk A/S - analysis and structure learning of Bayesian networks with discrete and/or continuous variables

BayesiaLab - Bayesian network laboratory producing a broad set of tools for structure learning, analysis, adaptive questionnaires, and dynamic Bayesian networks

Bayesian Network tools in Java (BNJ) - Open-source suite of software tools for research and development using graphical models of probability, published by Kansas State University Laboratory for Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD)

Inquiring Knowledge Networks On the Web (IKNOW) - IKNOW, an interdisciplinary project from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, helps enhance individuals' ability to access and visualize an organizations knowledge and social capital

Kevin Murphy's list of Bayesian network software - Most up-to-date list available.

Special Track on Uncertainty, FLAIRS 2001 - May 21-23 2001. Key West, Florida. FLAIRS seeks to bring together researchers working on issues related to reasoning under uncertainty.

Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) - Main conference for Belief Networks.

NIPS Workshop on Learning in bayesian networks and other Graphical Models - 1995.

BAT (Bayesian Automated Taxi) project - Developing next generation real-time decision making tools for vision-guided automated intelligent cars.

Bayesian Network Toolkit - Windows application for reasoning graphically from data and .BIF files. Includes Thesis accompanying the project.

Heart Disease Program - Designed to act as an intellectual sounding board, assisting diagnosis and anticipating the effects of therapy for cardiovascular disorders.

ProbSy - probability calculation tool for bridge players

READY: Resource-adaptive Dialog - Monitoring the current cognitive load and time limitations of a user.

Machine Vision Based Traffic Surveillance

ADVOCATE - Piloting software for unmanned underwater vehicles.

SERENE: Safety and Risk Evaluation using Bayesian Nets - Decision support method and tool for quantifying the safety of complex systems.

Bayesian Ship Self Defense Tactics Engine - Real-time weapons scheduler.

Systems for Automatic Customer Support Operations (SACSO) - The target applications of the project are networked printer systems. Complete troubleshooters for several HP printers have been developed, and are going to be offered to end-users as web-based e-service applications. The introduction of such e-services is expected to significantly reduce the need for customer support operations provided by human call agents.

DINA (Danish Information Network in the Agricultural Sciences - Using belief networks for crop prediction.

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