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Title: CDS 270-3 Spring 2008: Stochastic System Analysis and Bayesian Updating
Author: wgm
Submitted: March 6th, 2008
Topic: Courses
Class: Caltech Public


CDS 270-1
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CDS 270-3/AM 125c -- Spring 2008
Third Term

Stochastic System Analysis
and Bayesian Updating

Prerequisites:


Course Description

CDS 270-3. Stochastic System Analysis and Bayesian Updating. This course is taught concurrently as AM 125c. Units 3-0-6.

Course Outline

This course focuses on a probabilistic treatment of uncertainty in modeling a system's behavior and its excitation. We will start by examining the foundations of probability as a multi-valued logic for plausible reasoning with incomplete information; this will lead to a rigorous meaning for the probability of a model for a system. We will then focus on new approximate analytical and stochastic simulation tools for robust system analysis and Bayesian system identification that have been developed over the last decade or two, primarily by statisticians, computer scientists and engineers. The topics covered will include: Bayesian updating of models of a system to predict its future behavior based on measured response, including Markov Chain stochastic simulation techniques; Bayesian model class selection with a new information-theoretic interpretation that shows that it automatically gives a quantitative Ockham principle of model parsimony; recently-developed stochastic simulation techniques for evaluating the response of stochastic dynamic systems subject to stochastic excitations, especially computing small failure probabilities (i.e., probability of the system reaching some undesirable state); and Bayesian sequential estimation of system states and model parameters, generalizing the Kalman filter.

Lectures
Tuesday, Thursday 9 AM - 10:30 AM; 306 Thomas
Instructor
James L. Beck

Office hours: by appointment
Teaching Assistants
Sai-Hung (Joseph) Cheung

Office hours: by appointment



Announcements

  • The first lecture will be on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 in 306 Thomas at 9 AM.

Course Material