[UAI] Re: Books

From: Bob Welch (indianpeaks@home.com)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 07:23:46 PDT

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    > I'm starting a seminar at my company to acquaint beginning scientists with
    > various AI techniques. Can anyone recommend good introductory material on
    > any the following topics?

    Introduction to Bayesian Networks by Finn V. Jensen, Springer Verlag; 1996
    is probably the closest to you description for Bayesian networks. I note
    that Amazon.com lists it now as currently not available.

    Bob Welch
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    >
    > Hi all,
    >
    > I'm starting a seminar at my company to acquaint beginning scientists with
    > various AI techniques. Can anyone recommend good introductory material on
    > any the following topics?
    >
    > Neural networks
    > Belief nets (the Pearl book is good but more advanced than we have in mind
    > for this setting)
    > Expert systems
    > Agents
    > Fuzzy logic
    >
    > Ideally, we'd like to find a 100 to 200 page book on each of these topics,
    > roughly analagous to Melanie Mitchell's book An Introduction to Genetic
    > Algorithms, covering both basic theory and an overview of what type of
    > problem a technique is most suited to. However, it seems that truly
    > introductory material on some of these topics is hard to find. Any help
    will
    > be greatly appreciated.
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Rachel Cunningham
    >
    > ---------------------------------------------
    > Rachel Cunningham (617) 491-3474 x519
    > Scientist rachelc@cra.com
    > Charles River Analytics http://www.cra.com
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