UCLA Cognitive Systems Laboratory:

Director: Judea Pearl

Visiting Professors: Adnan Darwiche

Research Associates: Norman Dalkey, Avi Dechter, and Rina Dechter

Visiting Scholars: Rachel Ben-Eliyahu, Hector Geffner, Dan Geiger, and Moises Goldszmidt

Graduate Students:
Administrative Assistant: Kaoru Mulvihill


Research Areas:

EVIDENTIAL REASONING

(N. Dalkey, H. Geffner, J. Pearl)

distributed interpretation of multi-source data in networks of partial beliefs

LEARNING

(A. Balke, R. Dechter, J. Pearl, S.-W. Tan, T. Verma)

structuring and parameterizing links in belief networks to form a representation consistent with a stream of observations

CONSTRAINT PROCESSING

(R. Ben-Eliyahu, A. Dechter, R. Dechter, J. Pearl)

intelligent backtracking, learning while searching, restructuring constraint networks, truth maintenance systems, temporal reasoning

GRAPHOIDS

(D. Geiger, A. Paz, J. Pearl, T. Verma)

characterization of informational dependencies and their graph representations

DEFAULT REASONING

(R. Ben-Eliyahu, H. Geffner, M. Goldszmidt, J. Pearl, S.-W. Tan)

qualitative probabilistic reasoning; drawing plausible and defeasible conclusions from incomplete information


SUPPORTING GRANTS


Publications:

A selected bibliography is availble.

Paper collections:

REPORT REQUESTS are to be directed to:

Prof. Judea Pearl (judea@cs.ucla.edu)
UCLA Computer Science Department
6291 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, California 90024-1596
(310) 825-3243

Other lab pages can be found through this link.

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