[UAI] RE: Any work on anytime belief/decision nets?

From: Eric Horvitz (horvitz@microsoft.com)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 09:13:29 PST

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    Will,
        I have a partial compilation laying around that you may find useful, per
    links of work in the flexible inference area--largely from UAI conferences
    over the years (appended). I don't know of a great recent explicit survey
    in this area, although bunches of articles include summaries of work in this
    area. You may also find the chapter on Controlling Inference in Planning and
    Control (T. Dean & M. Wellman, Morgan Kaufmann, 1991) useful.
         Best,
               Eric

    ========

    Bounded Conditioning: Flexible Inference for Decisions Under Scarce
    Resources http://www.research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/bcond.htm (UAI 89) --
    bounded conditioning was implemented (by Adam Galper) as a parallel
    algorithm.

    A Bayesian Analysis of Simulation Algorithms for Inference in Belief
    Networks. (Networks 1993).
    http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/KSL_Abstracts/KSL-91-67.html

    Several links, related papers:
    http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/flex.htm

    Dissertation which included a focus in this realm.
    http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/tx.htm

    Ideal Reformulation of Belief Networks (UAI 90)
    http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/rsrcpart.htm

    Search-Based Methods to Bound Diagnostic Probabilities in Very Large Belief
    Nets (UAI 91)
    http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~dsl/UAI/UAI91/Henrion.UAI91.html

    Incremental Probabilistic Inference (UAI 93)
    http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~dsl/UAI/UAI93/DAmbrosio.UAI93.html

    State-space Abstraction for Anytime Evaluation of Probabilistic Networks
    (UAI 94)
    http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~dsl/UAI/UAI94/Wellman.UAI94.html

    Abstraction in Belief Networks: The Role of Intermediate States in
    Diagnostic Reasoning
    http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~dsl/UAI/UAI95/Provan.UAI95.html (UAI 95)

    Flexible Policy Construction by Information Refinement (UAI 96)
    http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~dsl/UAI/UAI96/Horsch.UAI96.html

    An Anytime Algorithm for Decision Making under Uncertainty (UAI 98)
    http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~dsl/UAI/UAI98/Horsch.UAI98.html

    Tractable Inference for Complex Stochastic Processes (UAI 98)
    http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~dsl/UAI/UAI98/Boyen.UAI98.html

    Incremental Tradeoff Resolution in Qualitative Probabilistic Networks (UAI
    98)
    http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~dsl/UAI/UAI98/Liu1.UAI98.html

    Logarithmic Time Parallel Bayesian Inference (UAI 98)
    http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~dsl/UAI/UAI98/Pennock.UAI98.html

    Any-Space Probabilistic Inference (UAI 2K)
    http://rome.exp.sis.pitt.edu/UAI/Abstract.asp?articleID=16

    Value-Directed Belief State Approximation for POMDPs (UAI2K)
    http://rome.exp.sis.pitt.edu/UAI/Abstract.asp?articleID=58

    - -----Original Message-----
    From: Briggs, Will [mailto:Briggs_W@mail.lynchburg.edu]
    Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 10:52 AM
    To: uai@cs.orst.edu
    Subject: Any work on anytime belief/decision nets?

    Hi,

    Is there any work (esp. a recent survey paper!) on anytime belief or
    decision networks? Or the same for parallel machines. I have an undergrad
    who wants to do this; it's not really my area; I want to see what already
    exists.

    Thanks for all,
    Will Briggs
    Lynchburg College
    briggs_w@mail.lynchburg.edu

    - -----Original Message-----
    From: Briggs, Will [mailto:Briggs_W@mail.lynchburg.edu]
    Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 10:52 AM
    To: uai@cs.orst.edu
    Subject: Any work on anytime belief/decision nets?

    Hi,

    Is there any work (esp. a recent survey paper!) on anytime belief or
    decision networks? Or the same for parallel machines. I have an undergrad



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