Wednesday 22nd March 2000 (6 pm)
ABSTRACT
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).
DAVID 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 them in key conferences and journals in Artificial Intelligence, Database Technology and Knowledge Discovery.
The Evening Lectures are free to both members and non-members of SGES.
For further information contact:
Dr. Hui Liu, Department of Computer Science, Birkbeck College hui@dcs.bbk.ac.uk