Web Directory

» 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
   http://www.niedermayer.ca/papers/bayesian/

» 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.
   http://www.auai.org/

» B-Course - Dependence and classification modeling
   A free, interactive tutorial on Bayesian modeling, in particular dependence and classification modeling.
   http://b-course.cs.helsinki.fi

» 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.
   http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/amos/belief.html

» Belief Revision
   Software, publications, teaching material, and news on belief revision - from the Business and Technology Research Laboratory at the University of Newcastle, Australia
   http://beliefrevision.org

» Cause, chance and Bayesian statistics
   Briefing document with a short survey of Bayesian statistics
   http://www.abelard.org/briefings/bayes.htm

» Daphne's Approximate Group of Students (DAGS)
   Daphne Koller's research group on probabilistic representation, reasoning, and learning at Stanford University
   http://dags.stanford.edu

» 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
   http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dsl/

» 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
   http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~nirf/Nips01-Tutorial/

» 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.
   http://www.pitt.edu/~druzdzel/abstracts/aisb.html

» 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.
   http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/jair/pub/volume6/darwiche97a-html/jair-f.html