Re: Information about and-gates, or-gates ...

irinar@jerusalem.ics.uci.edu
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 12:38:57 -0800

Here is a list of some references. You may also look at
our survey paper "On the impact of causal independence"
( http://www.ics.uci.edu/~irinar).

Irina

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@article{Olesen89,
author = "K.G. Olesen and U. Kjaerulff and F. Jensen and B. Falck
and S. Andreassen and S.K. Andersen",
title = "A {M}unin network for the median nerve - a case study
on loops",
journal = "Applied Artificial Intelligence",
volume = "3",
pages = "384--403",
year = 1989
}

@article{ZhangPooleJAIR,
author = "N.L. Zhang and D. Poole",
title = "Exploiting causal independence in
{B}ayesian network inference",
journal = "Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research",
volume = "5",
pages = "301--328",
year = 1996
}

@inproceedings{ZhangUAI97,
author = "N.L. Zhang and L. Yan",
title = "Independence of Causal Influence and
Clique Tree Propagation",
BookTitle= "Proc. Thirteenth Conf. on Uncertainty in Artificial
Intelligence",
pages = "481--488",
year = 1997
}

@inproceedings{Heckerman89,
author = "D. Heckerman",
title = "A tractable inference algorithm for diagnosing
multiple diseases",
BookTitle= "Proc. Fifth Conf. on Uncertainty in Artificial
Intelligence",
pages = "174-181",
year = 1989
}
@inproceedings{HeckermanBreese,
author = "D. Heckerman and J. Breese",
title = "A new look at causal independence",
BookTitle= "Proc. Tenth Conf. on Uncertainty in Artificial
Intelligence",
pages = "286-292",
year = 1994
}

@inproceedings{Srinivas,
author = "S. Srinivas",
title = "A generalization of noisy-{OR} model",
BookTitle= "Proc. Ninth Conf. on Uncertainty in Artificial
Intelligence",
pages = "208-215",
year = 1993
}

@techreport{CIreport,
author = "I. Rish and R. Dechter",
title = "On the impact of causal independence",
institution = "Information and Computer
Science, UCI",
year = "1998",
number = ""
}

@inproceedings{AIsymp98,
author = "I. Rish and R. Dechter",
title = "On the impact of causal independence",
BookTitle = "In Proceedings of 1998 AAAI Spring Symposium
on Interactive and Mixed-Initiative Decision-Theoretic Systems",
year = "1998",
number = ""
}

>Dear colleagues,
>
>I am looking for any information (papers,reports,links,...) dealing with
>and-gates, or-gates,
>sum-gates,... for use in bayesian networks. In general, I am interested
>in obtaining information
>about any method useful for specifying a full conditional probability
>table (for a node in a bayesian
>network given the values of its parent nodes) as a function of some
>parameters relating only
>the child node with each of its parents:
>
> P(X | C1,C2...,Cn) =
>f(par(X,C1),par(X,C2),...,par(X,Cn))
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Luis M. de Campos
>Dept. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
>Universidad de Granada, SPAIN
>