About the Authors

Richard E. Neapolitan is Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Northeastern Illinois University. He has previously written three books including the seminal 1990 Bayesian network text Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems. More recently, he wrote the 2004 text Learning Bayesian networks, and Foundations of Algorithms, which has been translated to three languages and is one of the most widely-used algorithms texts world-wide. His books have the reputation of making difficult concepts easy to understand because of the logical flow of the material, the simplicity of the explanations, and the clear examples.

Xia Jiang received an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rose Hulman University and is currently a Ph.D. candidate ...

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