CPSC 522 --- Believing, Deciding and Acting under Uncertainty

Online Resources

Here are some useful online resources. This will be added to during the term.

Poole, Mackworth and Goebel, Computational Intelligence (OUP 1998).
Russell and Norvig, Artificial Intelligence : A Modern Approach, 2nd Edition (Prentice-Hall, 2003)
Puterman, Martin L. Markov Decision Processes, J. Wiley and Sons, New York, NY, 1994.
Sutton and Barto, Reinforcement Learning: an Introduction (MIT Press, 1998).
Pearl, Causality, Cambridge, 2000.

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). This is a free online journal that started in 1993 and has grown to be one of the most respected journals in AI.
Artificial Intelligence. Another of the most prestegeous AI journal. Full text of articles available from UBC servers.
Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelliegnce. This is a online journal that provides open discussion of sumbitted papers. (It unfortunately seems to be not operational now).
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). This is a free online journal that started in 2000.
AI magazine, contains many survey articles.

The following are the main AI and uncertainty conferences (unfortunately not all of the proceedings are online):

Uncertainty in AI online proceedings sponsored by the Association for Uncertainty in AI.
NIPS online, Neural information processing. See also NIPS conference.
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). This is the main international bineenial AI conference.
American Associaition for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). AAAI sponsors the annual National Conference on AI, and numerous workshops and symposia.

Max Henrion, John S. Breese, Eric J. Horvitz, Decision Analysis and Expert Systems, AI Magazine, 12(4): Winter 1991, 64-91
Boutilier, C., Dean, T. and Hanks, S. (1999) Decision-Theoretic Planning: Structural Assumptions and Computational Leverage, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 11, pages 1-94.
Kaelbling, L.P., Littman, M.L., and Moore, A.W. (1996) Reinforcement Learning: A Survey, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 4, pages 237-285.
Anthony R. Cassandra, POMDPS for Dummies,

Nicola Muscettola, P. Pandurang Nayak, Barney Pell and Brian C. Williams, Remote Agent: to boldly go where no AI system has gone before, Artificial Intelligence, Volume 103, Issues 1-2, August 1998, Pages 5-47.