Presidential plans: in his opening speech as the ECA President, Bob Harris outlines his views and plans for the forthcoming year, a year which he believes will be crucial in the continuing agenda on training and professionalism in the industry

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ECA President Bob Harris discusses some of the successes and difficulties in the Association's past year. The achievements relate to the Sir Michael Latham report, Constructing the Team, providing procurement and operating practice guidelines for improvement, and the contribution of the ECA through its alliance with the Constructors Liaison Group. He talks of his concern about the poor image of the industry and the low self esteem of employees, and his plans to pursue the issues of working relationships and career prospects.

Associations, Electrical engineering

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Experiments in Evidence Composition in a Speech Understanding System

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A simple speech understanding system is presented. It evaluates the global evidence of a pattern based on the evidence of sub- patterns. Each sub-pattern level is associated with an Expert system which recognizes the relationships of other Experts connected to it. Two flows of information, top-down and bottom-up, provide communication among the Experts. Speed and parallelism in making decisions make this method well-suited for real-time problems.

Pattern recognition (Computers), Expert systems, Speech recognition, Parallel processing, Real time systems, Pattern Recognition, Real-Time System, Voice Recognition

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Information Content of an Evidence

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Probability functions are typically used to describe several situations. Two new functions concerning probability are introduced. Belief functions represent the degree of our belief that a proposition is true. Possibility functions represent the degree of logical support a proposition gives another proposition. Both are defined axiomatically. The measure of information content of an evidence which induces either function is presented.

Information theory, Information Processing, Information, Probability

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