The paper presents two useful extensions of the incremental SVM in the context of online learning. An online support vector data description algorithm enables application of the online paradigm to unsupervised learning. Furthermore, online learning can be used in the large-scale classification problems to limit the memory requirements for storage of the kernel matrix. The proposed algorithms ar...

public relations has always been considered an important tool in human communications. paying too much attention to advertising by sellers over time has distracted attention from public relations. in the case of the sellers of household appliances, they have come to a better understanding of the characteristics of public relations, and they have consequently found out that it in fact establishe...

This chapter is dedicated to Prof. Richard Karp whose Turing Award Lecture \Combinatorics, Complexity and Randomness" (Communications of the ACM, Feb 1986) inspired this author to start working in the eld of algorithms.

We report observations of the J = (1–0) CO molecular emission line toward the L977 molecular cloud. To study the correlation between CO emission and dust extinction we constructed a Gaussian smoothed map of the infrared extinction measured by Alves et al. (1998) at the same angular resolution (50) as our molecular–line observations. This enabled a direct comparison of CO integrated intensities ...

social incentives that bring them into existence and sustain them in the course of time. non-governmental organizations (ngos), whether based in the global north or south, are not different. unfortunately, numerous ngos start up and then fail, because the passion of the founder is not supported by a sustainable organization volunteers in all sectors are working with ngos. the ngos are citizen...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the prevalence of aetiological allergens identifiable by skin prick test alone in patients suffering from chronic rhinitis in Hong Kong, and also compare the clinical history and symptoms of skin prick test-positive versus skin prick test-negative patients. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Otorhinolaryngology clinic in Queen Mary Hospital of Hong Kong. PATIENTS A t...

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Current information and communications technology poses a variety of ethical challenges for researchers. In this paper, we present an intellectual framework for understanding and applying ethical principles in networking and security research rooted in the guidance suggested by an ongoing Department of Homeland Security working group on ethics. By providing this prototype ethical impact assessm...