
Computers - Artificial Intelligence - Belief Networks


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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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UConn list of Bayesian Network Resources
- Eugene Santos' lists of belief network research, papers, systems etc.
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A Brief Introduction to Graphical Models and Bayesian Networks
- Kevin Murphy's tutorial, including a recommended reading list.
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B-Course - Dependence and classification modeling
- A free, interactive tutorial on Bayesian modeling, in particular dependence and classification modeling.
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Cause, chance and Bayesian statistics
- Briefing document with a short survey of Bayesian statistics
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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
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Belief Revision
- Software, publications, teaching material, and news on belief revision - from the Business and Technology Research Laboratory at the University of Newcastle, Australia
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Daphne's Approximate Group of Students (DAGS)
- Daphne Koller's research group on probabilistic representation, reasoning, and learning at Stanford University
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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
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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
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Bayesian Network Repository
- Maintained by Gal Elidan - over a dozen publicly available networks with documentation, in several popular interchange formats
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Microsoft Belief Network Tools
- Free Windows software for creation, assessment and evaluation of belief networks.
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Software for Manipulating Belief Networks
- Reviews free and commercial belief network software. No longer updated, but the reviews are comprehensive.
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MIM
- Windows program for graphical modelling.
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Lumina Decision Systems
- Makers of Analytica, visual software tool for creating, analyzing, and communicating quantitative business models.
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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.
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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.
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Pulcinella
- Tool for propagating uncertainty through local computations based on the general framework of valuation systems proposed by Shenoy and Shafer.
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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.
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BUGS - Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling
- Bayesian analysis of complex statistical models using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods.
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JavaBayes
- Bayesian networks in Java.
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Pronel
- Data mining tool for extracting Bayesian networks from data.
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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.
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XBAIES
- Rob Cowell's windows-based system for bayesian network inference and learning.
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CoCo
- Model selection on graphical models (including belief networks).
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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.
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Bayesian Knowledge Discoverer
- Able to learn Bayesian Belief Networks from (possibly incomplete) databases. Algorithm based on the Bound and Collapse estimation method.
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BayesBuilder
- A tool for constructing and testing Bayesian networks.
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BucketElim
- UNIX and Windows NT bucket-elimination inference software for belief networks.
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Ergo
- A Bayesian network editor and solver. [Windows/Macintosh]
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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.
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Bayesian Belief and Decision Networks Applet
- CISpace tools for learning about belief networks: a set of Java applets and example networks.
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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
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RISO
- Robert Dodier's open source package for distributed, heterogeneous belief networks in Java - allows different conditional distributions
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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
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BayesiaLab
- Bayesian network laboratory producing a broad set of tools for structure learning, analysis, adaptive questionnaires, and dynamic Bayesian networks
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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)
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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
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Kevin Murphy's list of Bayesian network software
- Most up-to-date list available.
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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.
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Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)
- Main conference for Belief Networks.
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NIPS Workshop on Learning in bayesian networks and other Graphical Models
- 1995.
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BAT (Bayesian Automated Taxi) project
- Developing next generation real-time decision making tools for vision-guided automated intelligent cars.
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Bayesian Network Toolkit
- Windows application for reasoning graphically from data and .BIF files. Includes Thesis accompanying the project.
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Heart Disease Program
- Designed to act as an intellectual sounding board, assisting diagnosis and anticipating the effects of therapy for cardiovascular disorders.
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ProbSy
- probability calculation tool for bridge players
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READY: Resource-adaptive Dialog
- Monitoring the current cognitive load and time limitations of a user.
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Machine Vision Based Traffic Surveillance
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ADVOCATE
- Piloting software for unmanned underwater vehicles.
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SERENE: Safety and Risk Evaluation using Bayesian Nets
- Decision support method and tool for quantifying the safety of complex systems.
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Bayesian Ship Self Defense Tactics Engine
- Real-time weapons scheduler.
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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.
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DINA (Danish Information Network in the Agricultural Sciences
- Using belief networks for crop prediction.