CS 6766 - [Reasoning about Uncertainty]

Fall. Not offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: mathematical maturity and acquaintance with propositional logic.

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Examines formalizing reasoning about and representing uncertainty, using formal logical approaches as a basis. Topics: logics of probability, combining knowledge and probability, probability and adversaries, conditional logics of normality, Bayesian networks, qualitative approaches to uncertainty, going from statistical information to degrees of belief, and decision theory.