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GeNIe, QGeNIe, SMILE, BayesBox and BayesMobile and all accompanying graphics and manuals are copyrighted (1996-2024) by University of Pittsburgh, used under license by BayesFusion, LLC, and cannot be copied or distributed without permission. The only legal way of obtaining the programs is directly from BayesFusion, LLC. We require that interested individuals contact us directly or visit our web site for the most recent copy of the programs. This ensures the quality and completeness of the programs and accompanying manuals. It also allows us to keep track of who is using the programs and to notify the users about updates and new releases.

Academic use of GeNIe and SMILE

We support teachers using GeNIe in their classes and maintain shareware resources, such as network repositories, that are useful in teaching. (Please, visit BayesFusion, LLC web site for more information.) GeNIe, QGeNIe and SMILE are also useful in academic research projects. Our software is free for academic teaching and research use. In return for this, to get credit for our work, we require that all publications of research or applications in which GeNIe, QGeNIe or SMILE were used contain an explicit acknowledgment to that effect. Examples of simple acknowledgments are listed below:

The models described in this paper were created using the GeNIe Modeler, available free of charge for academic research and teaching use from BayesFusion, LLC, https://www.bayesfusion.com/.

The core of our implementation is based on the SMILE reasoning engine for graphical probabilistic models, available free of charge for academic research and teaching use from BayesFusion, LLC, https://www.bayesfusion.com/.