Please note the following seminar. A flyer is attached.
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> LSE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT: RESEARCH SEMINAR
> Wednesday January 31, 2001, 5.00pm - 6.00pm
> Room D402, Clement House, Aldwych : see
> http://www.lse.ac.uk/School/maps/map1.htm and
> http://www.lse.ac.uk/School/maps/map3.htm
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> "Risk and safety in managing complex services: lessons from medicine"
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> John Fox, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Lincoln's Inn Fields
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> Services like transport, engineering and medicine are becoming more and
> complex - and harder and harder for people to deliver safely. The growing
> tendency to "blame and shame" ignores the causes of most failures, which
> arise from levels of complexity that human beings cannot cope with rather
> than irresponsibility or wickedness. Individuals and organisations simply
> cannot assimilate and apply the vast amounts of technical knowledge they
> may need, and regulatory demands may just add to the knowledge burden.
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> Interest in "decision support", "workflow" and other computer technologies
> to help deliver complex services is growing rapidly. Quantitative
> techniques from OR and statistics have a traditional role in these areas,
> but they have some limitations which qualitative and logic-based methods
> may address. PROforma is a logic-based formalism for specifying decisions
> and processes and an intuitive and versatile technology for designing
> complex processes and delivering support services to the point of use
> (e.g. over the web). It also offers a new way of thinking about problems
> of risk and safety management where purely quantitative methods are
> problematic. The talk will give an overview of the PROforma method and
> describe experience at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in applying it to
> clinical applications.
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> Reference
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> J Fox and S Das "Safe and Sound: Artificial Intelligence in hazardous
> applications" American Association for Artificial Intelligence and MIT
> Press, July 2000.
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> (Refreshments after the Seminar at Coopers, Portsmouth St / Lincolns Inn
> Fields)
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> A printable version of this notice is attached.
> <<sem310101.doc>>
> Dr Peter Sozou
> Department of Operational Research
> London School of Economics
> Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
> tel: 020 7955-6234(direct) / 7955-7653(admin)
> fax: 020 7955-6885 email: [log in to unmask]
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