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lopro [2011/09/21 18:39]
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lopro [2011/09/25 14:29]
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-====== Logic and Probability ======+====== ​EPFL Fall 2011: Logic and Probability ======
  
 **Doctoral course by Val Tannen** **Doctoral course by Val Tannen**
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 +Lecture notes 1 [[http://​www.cis.upenn.edu/​~val/​LogicProbEPFL2011files/​ln1.pdf|(pdf)]]
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 +//Course Materials//
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 +Old lecture notes on computability [[http://​www.cis.upenn.edu/​~val/​LogicProbEPFL2011files/​compNotes.pdf|(pdf)]]
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 +"On the Unusual Effectiveness of Logic in Computer Science"​ Halpern, Harper, Immerman, Kolaitis, Vardi, and Vianu" [[http://​www.cis.upenn.edu/​~val/​LogicProbEPFL2011files/​UnusualEffectiveness.pdf|(pdf)]]
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 +//​Syllabus//​
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 +  *Introduction
 +    *Truth, proof, and computation:​ some basic results about first-order logic
 +    *A bit of the story of how Mathematical Logic (and Electronic Technology) gave birth to Computer Science. ​
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 +  *Part I: Probability of Logic
 +    *Random graphs and random structures
 +    *0-1 laws
 +    *Queries on probabilistic databases
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 +  *Part II: Logic of Probability
 +    *Pearl-Paz logics for reasoning about probabilistic (in)dependence
 +    *Reasoning about independence in Bayesian and Markov networks; the Hammersley-Clifford theorem ​
 +    *Reasoning about independence in relational graphical models (PRMs and RMNs)
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