Dr. Yiqun Gu is an information scientist. She is currently a member
of the Veterinary
Informatics and Epidemiology group at the Universities of Glasgow and
Strathclyde. Past work has involved her in the development of belief networks
relating to the effect of climatic change on crops. Her current work involves
the construction of a hybrid information system for African dairy farmers,
which tries to combine techniques of expert systems, hypertext, database
and mathematical modelling to provide a decision aid in boosting African
milk production. Her research interests are in the area of expert systems,
with a particular interest in knowledge acquisition and in uncertainty
reasoning methods.
Dr. Yiqun Gu can be contacted by post at
Department of Information
Science
Livingstone Tower
26 Richmond Street
Glasgow G1 1XH
U.K.
Yiqun Gu can currently be contacted by e-mail at yiqun@stams.strath.ac.uk