Bayesian AI

Bayesian Artificial Intelligence

Kevin B. Korb and Ann E. Nicholson
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3800 Australia

This page reflects our interests and research on Bayesian methods in Artificial Intelligence, including Bayesian networks and automated causal discovery (learning Bayesian networks). The information available here will be periodically updated.

Textbook

Bayesian Artificial Intelligence (2003) is our new textbook, being published by CRC Press. See our BAI book page for material supplementing the book, including illustrative source code, networks for use with problems and an updated appendix reporting Bayesian net and causal discovery tools.

Tutorial Information

This is a tutorial which we have developed for presentation of Bayesian AI methods at academic conferences and for industry. The notes are available for free. We will present the notes, with explanation, interpretation, examples and a supplementary hands-on laboratory, for a fee; please contact us for further information.

AI'99 Bayesian AI tutorial notes (in postscript, gzipped).
ANU July 2001 Bayesian AI tutorial notes (in postscript, gzipped).
HIC Feb 2002 Bayesian AI tutorial notes (in postscript, gzipped).
BOM Sept 2002 Bayesian AI tutorial notes (in postscript, gzipped).
Water Studies Centre Modelling Workshop June 2003
- Tutorial notes (in postscript, gzipped).
- Lab Exercises
- Lab Exercise solutions: Missing car (BN), Real Estate Investment (decision network).
FIT Winter School July 18 2003
- Tutorial notes (in postscript, gzipped).
Bayesian AI Tutorial for BoM July 20, 2006
- Tutorial notes (pdf).
- Lab Exercises
- Lab Notes
- Software
- Example BNs

Workshops

2006 Monash Bayesian Reasoning Workshop

Talks

Data Mining Cardiovascular Bayesian networks (powerpoint) Presentation at ARC Health Data Mining Workshop April 11th, 2005, Adelaide.
Bayesian networks and Causal Modelling (powerpoint) Seminar given Feb 4th 2005, Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney.
Using Bayesian networks for Water Quality Prediction in Sydney Harbour (powerpoint) Seminar given Feb 3rd 2005, NSW Department of Environment and Conservation, Sydney.
Knowledge Engineering with Bayesian Networks (powerpoint) Seminar given Jan 2003, Monash South Africa.
University of Sydney (powerpoint). Seminar, June 2001.
University of Utrectht (powerpoint). Seminar, May 2001.
Aalborg University (powerpoint). Seminar, May 2001.
Dept of Information Systems, University of Melbourne (powerpoint). Seminar, March 2001.
UNSW School of Management Sept 2001 (outline).

Bayesian AI honours subject information

Bayesian AI honours research projects

Projects offered in 2005: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/courses/bse/2005/HonsProj/ Korb.

Past projects: 1994-2007.

The Monash Bayesian intelligent decision support (BIDS) project

Monash BIDS projects, applying Bayesian network techniques.

Bayesian network web resource guide

Bayesian network applications.
Bayesian decision support applications.
Tools for learning Bayesian networks.
Other Bayesian Network resources around the Net.

Introductory readings on Bayesian reasoning

Under preparation. Topics include:

elementary Bayesian reasoning
Bayesian AI;
Bayesian network inference methods;
Elicitation of network structure,
probabilities and utilities;
Applications;
Adaptation;
learning causal networks; B
ayesian decision support;
evaluating Bayesian networks.