CPSC 532 - Topics in AI:
Logical, Probabilistic and Computational Foundations of Semantic Science

David Poole

Spring 2010

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Readings

These readings will be updated throughout the term. Where possible, I have tried to find sources that are freely available. Some of them are only free using a university computer (e.g. using the VPN).

Philosophy and Practice of Science

We will not explicitly cover this is course, but there are lot of books about science, pseudoscience and non-science. See, e.g., The Scientific Method Made Easy.

Causality

J. Pearl, Causal inference in statistics: An overview Statistics Surveys, 3:96--146, 2009.

Probabilistic Relational Models

De Raedt, L.; Frasconi, P.; Kersting, K.; Muggleton, S.H. (Eds.), Probabilistic Inductive Logic Programming Springer, 2008
Luc De Raedt. Logical and Relational Learning. Springer.2008.

Last updated: 2009-10-23, David Poole

CPSC 532 - Topics in AI: Logical, Probabilistic and Computational Foundations of Semantic Science