Probabilistic Expert Systems emphasizes the basic computational principles that make probabilistic reasoning feasible in expert systems. The key to computation in these systems is the modularity of the probabilistic model. Shafer describes and compares the principal architectures for exploiting this modularity in the computation of prior and ......
Here is a brief, and easy-to-follow introduction and overview of robust statistics. Peter Huber focuses primarily on the important and clearly understood case of distribution robustness, where the shape of the true underlying distribution deviates slightly from the assumed model (usually the Gaussian law). An additional chapter on recent ......
This volume contains the shorter books and monographs of Hugh MacDiarmid, as part of Carcanet's "MacDiarmid 2000" programme. Other titles in the series include "Complete Poems", "Lucky Poet", "Contemporary Scottish Studies" and "Scottish Eccentrics".
For nine years, John Dowell and his wife spend the summer season at a German spa town in the company of the respectable Ashburnhams. Behind the placid exteriors lie the destructive passions of men and women. This text includes biographical and critical apparatus.
Peter Kenney, 1779-1841, His Mission in Ireland and north America
This is a biography of a remarkable Irishman who received his early education in the back streets of Dublin towards the end of the eighteenth century, and went on to study for the priesthood in the re-emerging Society of Jesus in England and Sicily. On returning, he acted as Vice-President of Maynooth College and, in the face of much opposition, ......
Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel
Chronicles the intimate, behind-the-scenes encounters of an American Francophile and the stars of the French Avant Garde theater and literary worlds. This book reflects the author's experience of the modern French theater and with those artists who wrote and staged the work that has revolutionized the way we think of theater.
The multiple-cultures perspective advocated in this book suggests that culture in organizational settings is more complex, pluralistic, diverse and contradictory than previously acknowledged. Contributors address culture at various levels including national, industrial and organizational. Issues covered include: implicit managerial understandings ......
Studying both the fine detail of language us e and the political values implicated by word choice, the co ntributors examine how an ''us versus them'' division is playe d out in a wide variety of cultural settings. '
Midgley gives a comprehensive account of wor ld social conditions and social welfare institutions. He als o looks issues of social work practice, social developments, and the activities of international agencies and their coll aborative efforts. '
