BCS SGES Evening Lectures

This is the first in a series of BCS SGES Lectures to be be hosted at City University in London.
Venue: Room A529,
            City University,
            St John St,
            London EC1.

Room A529:
Use City University's St John Street entrance, opp. Whiskin St EC1.The very large clock hanging over this entrance makes it easy to spot. Obtain a visitor's pass from security. Use the corridor leading away from the street. Take the lift on the left from level 2 to level 5. Exiting the lift, turn right, then all corridors take you to A529.

Travel:
From ANGEL tube station:  Turn left on exit. At the crossroads go straight ahead into St John Street. Carry on for c. 500 yards (8 min).(Angel is one stop on the Northern Line City Branch from Kings Cross.) From Waterloo: A taxi or no. 4 bus (to Percival St) beats the tube.

Date: October 29 1997
Time: 6.30 P.M

Speaker: Dr Olivier Curet (Delloite and Touche, London)

Title of the talk : "Designing, using and evaluating CBR for business: case studies"
Main points:
1. Background on CBR: history and methodological approaches
2. AI in business : Introduction to the main systems and methodologies in use.
3. Contrasting CBR and traditional systems in use.
4. Case study : a CBR system to detect management fraud
5. Case study : a CBR system in trade mission evaluation
6. Case study : using CBR in finance (derivative products).
7. The evaluation of CBR business applications.

"Dr Olivier Curet is a Senior Manager at Deloitte & Touche, wherehe has specialised in decision support systems and knowledge-based systems technologies. He gained a PhD in Information Systems from the London Schoolof Economics and has written many different academic and research paperson decision support, artificial intelligence and case-based reasoning. He has been a guest speaker at INSEAD, London Business School, London School of Economics, and Stockholm School of Economics."

The Lectures are free and for further information contact:
Ilesh Dattani(dattani@compsci.bristol.ac.uk)
Tel: 0117 954 5160
or
David Dodson (venue)  (dcd@cs.city.ac.uk)
Tel: 0171 477 8445


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