Probability Distributions.- Linear Models for Regression.- Linear Models for Classification.- Neural Networks.- Kernel Methods.- Sparse Kernel Machines.- Graphical Models.- Mixture Models and EM.- Approximate Inference.- Sampling Methods.- Continuous Latent Variables.- Sequential Data.- Combining Models.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

Deposits of clastic carbonate-dominated (calciclastic) sedimentary slope systems in the rock record have been identified mostly as linearly-consistent carbonate apron deposits, even though most ancient clastic carbonate slope deposits fit the submarine fan systems better. Calciclastic submarine fans are consequently rarely described and are poorly understood. Subsequently, very little is known especially in mud-dominated calciclastic submarine fan systems. Presented in this study are a sedimentological core and petrographic characterisation of samples from eleven boreholes from the Lower Carboniferous of Bowland Basin (Northwest England) that reveals a >250 m thick calciturbidite complex deposited in a calciclastic submarine fan setting. Seven facies are recognised from core and thin section characterisation and are grouped into three carbonate turbidite sequences. They include: 1) Calciturbidites, comprising mostly of highto low-density, wavy-laminated bioclast-rich facies; 2) low-density densite mudstones which are characterised by planar laminated and unlaminated muddominated facies; and 3) Calcidebrites which are muddy or hyper-concentrated debrisflow deposits occurring as poorly-sorted, chaotic, mud-supported floatstones. These

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Data Mining - Concepts and Techniques.

Data Mining Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques

How to Do Things With Words

Traditional approaches to software development - the ones embodied in CASE tools and modeling frameworks - are appropriate for building individual software components, but they are not designed to face the challenges of open environments. Service-oriented computing provides a way to create a new architecture that reflects components' trends toward autonomy and heterogeneity. We thus emphasize SOC concepts instead of how to deploy Web services in accord with current standards. To begin the series, we describe the key concepts and abstractions of SOC and the elements of a corresponding engineering methodology.

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Service-oriented computing

About the Authors.Preface.Note to the Reader.Acknowledgments.Figures.Tables.Listings.I Basics.1. Computing with Services.2. Basic Standards for Web Services.3. Programming Web Services.4. Enterprise Architectures.5. Principles of Service-Oriented Computing.II Description.6. Modeling and Representation.7. Resource Description Framework.8. Web Ontology Language.9. Ontology Management.III Engagement.10. Execution Models.11. Transaction Concepts.12. Coordination Frameworks for Web Services.13. Process Specifications.14. Formal Specification and Enactment.IV Collaboration.15. Agents.16. Multiagent Systems.17. Organizations.18. Communication.V Solutions.19. Semantic Service Solutions.20. Social Service Selection.21. Economic Service Selection.VI Engineering.22. Building SOC Applications.23. Service Management.24. Security.VII Directions.25. Challenge and Extensions.VIII Appendices.Appendix A: XML and XML Schema.Appendix B: URI, URN, URL and UUID.Appendix C: XML Namespace Abbreviations.Glossary.About the Authors.Bibliography.Index.

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Service-Oriented Computing: Semantics, Processes, Agents

Current Web services standards lack the means for expressing a service's nonfunctional attributes - namely, its quality of service. QoS can be objective (encompassing reliability, availability, and request-to-response time) or subjective (focusing on user experience). QoS attributes are key to dynamically selecting the services that best meet user needs. This article addresses dynamic service selection via an agent framework coupled with a QoS ontology. With this approach, participants can collaborate to determine each other's service quality and trustworthiness.

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A framework and ontology for dynamic Web services selection

For agents to function effectively in large and open networks, they must ensure that their correspondents, i.e., the agents they interact with, are trustworthy. Since no central authorities may exist, the only way agents can find trustworthy correspondents is by collaborating with others to identify those whose past behavior has been untrustworthy. In other words, finding trustworthy correspondents reduces to the problem of distributed reputation management.Our approach adapts the mathematical theory of evidence to represent and propagate the ratings that agents give to their correspondents. When evaluating the trustworthiness of a correspondent, an agent combines its local evidence (based on direct prior interactions with the correspondent) with the testimonies of other agents regarding the same correspondent. We experimentally studied this approach to establish that some important properties of trust are captured by it.

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An evidential model of distributed reputation management

Advances in wireless sensor network (WSN) technology has provided the availability of small and low-cost sensor nodes with capability of sensing various types of physical and environmental conditions, data processing, and wireless communication. Variety of sensing capabilities results in profusion of application areas. However, the characteristics of wireless sensor networks require more effective methods for data forwarding and processing. In WSN, the sensor nodes have a limited transmission range, and their processing and storage capabilities as well as their energy resources are also limited. Routing protocols for wireless sensor networks are responsible for maintaining the routes in the network and have to ensure reliable multi-hop communication under these conditions. In this paper, we give a survey of routing protocols for Wireless Sensor Network and compare their strengths and limitations.

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Munindar P. Singh

Papers

Service-oriented computing

Service-Oriented Computing: Semantics, Processes, Agents

A framework and ontology for dynamic Web services selection

An evidential model of distributed reputation management

Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks - A Survey