Re: Automatic generation of Bayesian network from computer program?

Marco Valtorta (mgv@cs.sc.edu)
Mon, 1 Feb 1999 13:20:19 -0500 (EST)

Dear Robert:
>
> Robert,
>
> There has been quite a bit of work on automatic generation of Bayesian networks.
>
> Some time ago (92? --- I'm afraid I'm away from home and from my bib
>database), Mike Wellman, Jack Breese and I edited an IEEE SMC special issue
>on the subject, which we referred to as Knowledge-Based Model Construction.
>That contains a number of article> s on the subject. We also wrote a
>survey article for Knowledge Engineering Review.

For completeness, there was a workshop at AAAI-91 also (which you
co-organized with Breese and Wellman). I wrote a summary of the
workshop: M. Valtorta. "Knowledge-Based Construction of Probabilistic and
Decision Models" (AAAI-91 workshop report). _IEEE Expert_, 6, 6
(December 1991), 69-71.
>
> Cheers,
> Robert
>
> P.S. if you need better pointers, drop me a line in a few days.

I would appreciate your posting the exact references.

Cheers,

Marco