Lectures


 * **S.#** || **Date** || **Day** || **Topics** || **Download** || ** Assignments ** || **Comments** ||
 * 1 || 09/01/09 || Tuesday || Course Outline and Objectives, Review of Independence, Conditional Independence and Bayes Theorem || [[file:Probabilistic Reasoning Unit 1.pdf]] ||  || Read Chapter 1 of Jensens' Book ||
 * 2 || 09/05/09 || Saturday || Introduction of Bayesian Networks (BNs), Advantages and Purpose of BNs, Local Parameters Acquisition and Generation of Joint Probability Distribution, Model Building, GeNIe Demonstration, || [[file:Probabilistic Reasoning Unit 2.pdf]] || Assignment # 1 ||  ||
 * 3 || 09/09/09 || Wednesday || Computation of Joint Probability Distribution using Bayesian Chain Rule, Inference in Singly Connected Networks || [[file:Probabilistic Reasoning Unit 3.pdf]] ||  ||   ||
 * 4 || 09/16/09 || Wednesday || Serial, Convergin and Diverging Connections, d-separation, Markov Blanket, Inference Mechanism || [[file:Probabilistic Reasoning Unit 4.pdf]] || Project 1 Issued (Due on Oct 31, 09) || Read Chapter 2 of Jensen's Book ||
 * 5 || 09/16/09 || Wednesday || Presentations (Quratulain and Raza) ||  ||   || View Presentations ||
 * 6 || 09/19/09 || Saturday || Presentaitons (Asma and Saleha) ||  || Assignment # 2 ||   ||
 * || ** 09/23/09 ** || ** Wednesday ** || ** No Class ** || ||  || ** Eid-ul-Fitr Holiday ** ||
 * 7 || 09/26/09 || Saturday || Formal Definitions - Directed Graphs, Paths and Cycles, Markov Condition and Bayesian Networks, Causal DAG, Causal Markov Assumption, Markov Condition without Causality || [[file:Probabilistic Reasoning Unit 5.pdf]] ||  || Read Chapter 5 of Neapolitan's Book ||
 * 8 || 09/30/09 || Wednesday || Formal Definitions - Entailed Conditional Independence, Faithful and Unfaithful Probability Distribution, Markov Equivalence, Minimal Markov Blanket || [[file:Probabilistic Reasoning Unit 6.pdf]] ||  || Read Chapter 6 of Neapolitan's Book ||
 * 9 || 10/03/09 || Saturday || Presentations (Raza and Quratulain) ||  ||   || View Presentations ||
 * 10 || 10/03/09 || Saturday || Presentations (Saleha and Asma) ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || **10/10/09** || **Saturday** || **No Class** || ||  || **Midterm I Week** ||
 * || **10/14/09** || **Wednesday** || **No Class** || ** 1st Midterm on 10/14/2009 ** ||  || **Midterm I Week** ||
 * 11 || 10/17/09 || Saturday || Knowledge Acquisition: Noisy-Or || [[file:Probabilistic Reasoning Unit 7.pdf]] ||  || Read Section 3.3.2 (pg. 75-78) of the Jensen's book and Section 5.6.1 (pg. 117-124) of the Neapolitan's book ||
 * || 10/21/09 || Wednesday || No Class || Holiday Announced due to Security Concerns ||  ||   ||
 * 12 || 10/24/09 || Saturday || Knowledge Acquisition: CAST Logic and Recursive Noisy-Or || [[file:Probabilistic Reasoning Unit 8.pdf]] || Assignment # 3 || Papers on CAST Logic and Recursive Noisy-Or can be download from here ||
 * || 10/28/09 || Wednesday || No Class ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 13 || 10/31/09 || Saturday || Project-I Presentations ||  ||   || View Presentations ||
 * 14 || 10/31/09 || Saturday || Project-I Presentations ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 15 || 11/04/09 || Wednesday || Belief Updating in Multiply Connected Networks - Building a Junction Tree from a Bayesian Network (Moralization, Triangulation, Maximum Cardinality Search) || [[file:Probabilistic Reasoning Unit 9.pdf]] ||  ||   ||
 * 16 || 11/07/09 || Saturday || Model Building Presentations ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 17 || 11/11/09 || Wednesday || Unit 9 (Cont'd) - Properties of Clique and Junction Trees, More Examples of Building JT from a BN ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 18 || 11/14/09 || Saturday || Approximate Inference: Logic Sampling and Likelihood Weighting || [[file:Probabilistic Reasoning Unit 10.pdf]] ||  || Read Sections 4.8.1 and 4.8.2 of Jensen's book ||
 * 19 || 11/18/09 || Wednesday || Likelihood Weighting (Cont'd), Loopy Belief Propagation || Working of simulation schemes: [[file:Simulation.xlsx]] ||  ||   ||
 * || ** 11/21/09 ** || ** Saturday ** || ** No Class ** || || || ** Midterm II Week ** ||
 * || ** 11/25/09 ** || ** Wednesday ** || ** No Class ** || || || ** Midterm II Week ** ||
 * || ** 11/28/09 ** || ** Saturday ** || ** No Class ** || || || ** Eid-ul-Adha Holiday ** ||
 * 21 || 12/02/09 || Wednesday || Junction Tree Revisited, Parameter Learning, Equivalent Sample Size for Prior || [[file:Probabilistic Reasoning Unit 11.pdf]] ||  || Read Chapter 7 of Neapolitan's Book

|| Papers on Dynamic Influence Nets can be downloaded from here ||
 * 22 || 12/05/09 || Saturday || Junction Tree (Cont'd) ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 23 || 12/09/09 || Wednesday || Structure Learning, Bayesian Score, Computing Probability of Data Given a DAG, Learning a DAG Pattern || [[file:Probabilistic Reasoning Unit 12.pdf]] ||  || Read Chapter 8 of Neapolitan's Book ||
 * 24 || 12/09/09 || Wednesday || Project II - Ideas Discussion ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 25 || 12/12/09 || Saturday || Structure Learning (Cont'd), K2 Algorithm, Greedy Search Algorithm, Consistent Scoring Criterion, BN PowerConstructor Demo ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 26 || 12/16/09 || Wednesday || Dynamic Bayesian Networks, Inference Mechanism, Support in GeNIe || [[file:Probabilistic Reasoning Unit 13.pdf]] ||  || Read Section 4.4 of Kjaerulff and Madsen's Book
 * 27 || 12/19/09 || Saturday || Timed/Dynamic Influence Nets ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 28 || 12/23/09 || Wednesday || Sensitivity Analysis || [[file:Probabilistic Reasoning Unit 14.pdf]] ||  || Korb & Nicholson Ch: 10, Paper on Sensitivity Analysis in Influence Nets can be downloaded from here ||
 * 29 || 12/30/09 || Wednesday || Knowledge Engineering || [[file:Probabilistic Reasoning Unit 15.pdf]] ||  || Korb & Nicholson Ch: 9 ||
 * 30 || 01/02/10 || Saturday || Project II - Presentations ||  ||   || View Presentations ||
 * 31 || 01/02/10 || Saturday || Project II - Presentations ||  ||   || View Presentations ||