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Thanks to everyone who responded to my question.  Summary follows:

1) Intro for beginners:
        "Bayesian Networks without Tears",
        Eugene Charniak, AI Magazine, v12, n4, 1991, pp. 50 - 63.

2) Theoretical framework:
        _Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of
        Plausible Inference_
        Judea Pearl, Morgan Kaufmann, 1988, 1991.

3) Implementation guide
        _Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems: Theory and
        Algorithms_
        R.E. Neapolitan, John Wiley, 1990.

4) Historical papers:
        "Readings in Uncertain Reasoning"
        Shafer & Pearl, eds, Morgan Kaufmann, 1990.

5) A smattering of current research:
        _Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial
        Intelligence_
        UAI-93, Morgan Kaufmann.

        _Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence_ 1 - 6 (reprints from the
        above conference)
        Elsevier North Holland

        _Probabilistic Similarity Networks_
        D. Heckerman, MIT Press, 1992.

        "Real-time Value-driven Diagnosis"
        B. D'Ambrosio, postscript available vi anonymous ftp from
        cs.orst.edu (pub/dambrosi/spi/tech-reports).  The file is called
        dx-92.ps.

        "Decision Analysis and Expert Systems"
        E.J. Horvitz, J.S. Breese, M. Henrion, AI Magazine, v12, n4, 64-91,
        1991.

        "Toward Normative Systems: Part I.  The Pathfinder Project"
        S.L.Lauritzen, R.G.Cowell, Statistical Sciences,
        V8, n3,pp. 204-284, 1993.

        "The Computational Complexity of Probabilistic Inference
        Using Bayesian Belief Networks."
        Artificial Intelligence, v42, pp.393-405, 1990.

        "A Bayesian Method for the Induction of Probabilistic
        Networks from Data."
        G.F. Cooper, E. Herskovits.
        Machine Learning, v9, pp. 309-347, 1992.

        "An Analysis of Two Probabilistic Model Induction Techniques."
        S. Crawford, R. Fung.
        Preliminary Papers of the Third International Workshop
        on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics,
        pp. H1-H12, 1991.

        "Constructor: A System for the Induction of Probabilistic Models."
        R. Fung, S. Crawford, Proceedings of AAAI-90, pp. 762-769, 1990.

7) Intros (or otherwise) to Bayesian reasoning:

        _Scientific Reasoning: The Bayesian Approach_
        C. Howson, P. Urbach, Open Court, 1989.

        _Theory of Probability_
        H. Jeffrys, Clarendon Press, 1961

        _Theory of Probability_ (2 volumes)
        B. De Finnitti, John Wiley and Sons, year unknown.


I also received a mondo-list of references that came from a search of
the 1992 on-line version of the Current Index to Statistics (CIS). The
search was done on the authors Lauritzen and Spiegelhalter, and on the
keywords "graphical model" and "expert system".  Its too large to include
here but if anyone wants it, I'll mail it to them.  Warning: the CIS
uses abbreviations for the journals that may be hard to decipher.