主講人：陳玉旺博士
　　時間：2017年10月13日14：00
　　地點：機電學院仰儀南樓207-2
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　　Title: Decision analytics using data-driven modelling and evidential reasoning
Abstract:
　　Decision analytics allow individuals and organizations to transform data and combine evidence to support informed decision making. However, most real-world decision making problems are often characterised by different types of information. In this talk, I will give an introduction to the evidential reasoning (ER) rule and the belief rule based (BRB) methodology in the context of decision analytics under uncertainties. The ER rule constitutes a generic conjunctive probabilistic reasoning process and generalises Dempster’s rule and Bayesian inference, while the BRB methodology shares functionalities with Bayesian network through combining the ER algorithm and belief IF-THEN rules. Examples and real-world applications will briefly discussed.
Biography:
　　陳玉旺(Yu-wang Chen)博士，于2008年在上海交通大學自動化系控制科學與工程專業獲工學博士學位，現為英國曼徹斯特大學決策科學高級講師(Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor in Decision Sciences)。此前2008年至2011年分別在香港浸會大學計算機系和英國曼徹斯特大學決策與認知科學研究中心開展博士后研究。2011年4月在歐洲科技合作計劃(European COST)資助下任西班牙Malaga大學Visiting Scholar。其主要研究領域為決策分析、最優化方法、風險分析和供應鏈管理等。近年來作為項目負責人或主要完成人承擔完成EPSRC, ERC, NSFC等資助的多項科研項目。并在EJOR, C&OR, IEEE  T-SMC, IS等期刊和會議上發表了學術論文40余篇。并擔任多個國際期刊的副主編或編委，包括Decision Analytics，Web Intelligence和International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management。
　　Dr. Yu-Wang Chen is Senior lecturer in decision sciences at the University of Manchester. Prior to his current appointment, he was a postdoctoral research associate and then appointed as a lecturer at 2011 at the Decision and Cognitive Sciences (DCS) research centre of the University of Manchester, and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University. He received the PhD degree in control and system engineering from the Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2008.
　　He has published over 40 papers in journals and conferences, such as European Journal of Operational Research, Computers & Operation Research, Information Sciences and IEEE T-SMC. He holds and has completed as PI/Co-I several research projects funded by ERC, UK EPSRC, NSFC, etc. He is serving and served as associate editor of Journal of Decision Analytics, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, editorial board member of International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, special session organiser or programme committee member of a series of conferences, and UK ESPRC peer review member. His current research interests are mainly in the areas of decision analysis under uncertainties, modelling and optimization of complex systems, and risk analysis in supply chains.