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BCS SGES Evening Lecture at Birkbeck (22/3/2000) Professor David A Bell, University of Ulster Title: Evidence Management and Combination The talk will start with a consideration of relationships between data management and evidential reasoning. A specific method of evidence management based on combining a well-known approach to evidence handling (based on work of Dempster-Shafer DS) with a well-known approach to data management (Relational DBMSs) will be introduced. Then the restriction to alphanumeric data will be removed by looking at how DS methods can be applied to graphical objects - eg to reason directly with spatial evidence. Finally the restriction to numerical evidence weighing will be removed by introduction to a non-numeric (comparison-based ) method of weighing evidence called RES (Relative Evidential Supports). Professor Bell is Head of Division in the School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Ulster at Jordanstown. He has published over 200 scientific articles, many of which are in key conferences and journals in Artificial Intelligence, Database Technology and Knowledge Discovery. Wednesday 22 March, 6.00 pm, Room 121, North Block of Senate House ================================================================== Please pass on this information to any members of staff, postgraduates and others in your department who might be interested in attending. The room is on the first floor of the North Block, Senate House of London University, Malet Street, London WC1, and NOT in the main college building. Please do not take the lift since it does not stop on the first floor. Entry to the Computer Science Department is controlled by a security lock. To gain access, phone extension 6700, or 6711. A map of the area is available on the web side "http://www.bbk.ac.uk". Click "college map" on the left column. Location 9 is the North Block of Senate House. Organiser: Dr. Hui Liu, Birkbeck College. Email: [log in to unmask] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Information about the evening lectures and all other SGES events is available on the SGES website at http://www.bcs-sges.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%