JUDEA PEARL - COGNITIVE SYSTEMS LABORATORY

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Director: Judea Pearl

Faculty Associates:  Adnan Darwiche and Rina Dechter

Graduate Students:

• Carlos Cinelli
• Ang Li
• Chi Zhang

Administrative Assistant: Kaoru Mulvihill

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RESEARCH AREAS:

• EVIDENTIAL REASONING
  (A. Darwiche) 
  Distributed interpretation of multi-source data in networks of partial beliefs
• LEARNING
  (J. Pearl, J. Tian) 
  Structuring causal networks to form a representation consistent with theories, experiments, and  observations
• CONSTRAINT PROCESSING
  (R. Dechter, J. Pearl) 
  Intelligent backtracking, learning while searching, restructuring constraint networks, truth maintenance systems, temporal reasoning
• GRAPHOIDS
  (J. Pearl) 
  Characterization of informational dependencies and their graph representations
• CAUSAL REASONING
  (A. Darwiche, J. Pearl, J. Tian, B. Bonet, C. Brito, M. Hopkins) 
  Predicting the effects of actions and policies, identifying causes, and generating explanations for observed events in specific scenarios

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SUPPORTING GRANTS

• AFOSR: Dynamic Constraint-Networks
• MICRO: Distributed Diagnosis of Systems with Multiple Faults
• MURI: An Integrated Approach to Decision Making under Uncertainty
• NSF: Probabilistic Networks for Automated Reasoning
• ONR: Causal Explanations for Learning and Training

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Publications:
Click here a list of CSL's Technical Reports
Click here for available on-line papers

REPORT REQUESTS are to be directed to:

Prof. Judea Pearl (judea@cs.ucla.edu)
UCLA Computer Science Department
4532 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, California 90024-1596
(310) 825-3243

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Kaoru Mulvihill (kaoru@cs.ucla.edu)
UCLA Computer Science Department
4532 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, California 90024-1596
(310) 825-3243