Perth 2000 AGM date

Report from the faculty of family planning and reproductive health care AGM, May 2000.

Bodyzone is a young persons drop in service run in eight small market towns in Oxfordshire. It is based in secondary schools, or in youth centres nearby, and runs once a week during the school lunchtime. The service was initially developed to meet the needs of young people in a rural population. Many young people find it hard to use services primarily designed for adults. Additional problems fo...

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The increasing ability to interconnect computers through internetworking, wireless networks, high-bandwidth satellite, and cable networks has spawned a new class of information-centered applications based on data dissemination. These applications, which often serve huge client populations, employ broadcast to efficiently deliver data to the clients. In data dissemination, the data transfer is i...

Ranking Functions, AGM Style

Ranking functions, having their first appearance under the name „ordinale Konditionalfunktionen“ in my Habilitationsschrift submitted in 1983, had several precursors of which I was only incompletely aware, among them Shackle’s functions of potential surprise (see Shackle 1969), Rescher’s plausibility indexing (see Rescher 1976), Adams’ ε-semantics (see Adams 1975), Cohen’s inductive probabiliti...

The promise of Perth.

Iterable AGM functions

Appeared in Proceedings of BR'98. Trento. Italy. The AGM model has been criticized for not addressing the problem of iterated change. This is true, but in some cases the invalid claim that \AGM does not allow iteration" has been made. In this paper we examine the most elementary scheme of iteration: an iterable function. We formulate an iterable version of the AGM model, showing that the AGM fo...