This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics, MLSA 2021, held as virtual event in September 2021. The 12 full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers present a variety of topics within the area of sports analytics, including tactical analysis, outcome predictions, data acquisition, performance optimization, and player evaluation.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics, MLSA 2020, colocated with ECML/PKDD 2020, in Ghent, Belgium, in September 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 11 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers present a variety of topics within the area of sports analytics, including tactical analysis, outcome predictions, data acquisition, performance optimization, and player evaluation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management, SUM 2020, which was held in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, in September 2020. The 12 full, 7 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. Besides that, the book also contains 2 abstracts of invited talks, 2 tutorial papers, and 2 PhD track papers. The conference aims to gather researchers with a common interest in managing and analyzing imperfect information from a wide range of fields, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, databases, information retrieval and data mining, the semantic web and risk analysis. Due to the Corona pandemic SUM 2020 was held as an virtual event.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics, MLSA 2018, colocated with ECML/PKDD 2018, in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2018. The 12 full papers presented together with 4 challenge papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The papers present a variety of topics, covering the team sports American football, basketball, ice hockey, and soccer, as well as the individual sports cycling and martial arts. In addition, four challenge papers are included, reporting on how to predict pass receivers in soccer.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, ILP 2014, held in Nancy, France, in September 2014. The 14 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers focus on topics such as the inducing of logic programs, learning from data represented with logic, multi-relational machine learning, learning from graphs, and applications of these techniques to important problems in fields like bioinformatics, medicine, and text mining.

Miracle from Tobacco Road is a true story of the life and times of Jesse Davis. He was born in North Carolina and lived his life in the south. His is a story of a man who overcame many difficulties and hardships in his life through the miracles and grace of God, whether or not he knew it at the time. It is a story of salvation and redemption. It is an interesting book with many stories that will keep you wanting to find out what happens next.

This book is written like Jesse talks, in a poor, rural, southern conversational style, sometimes spoken in the present as if each moment in his life was now. Jesse talks very openly about his life, relationships, alcohol and drug use, and the difficulties and tragedies that he overcame. It is about the miracles that spared his life on several occasions, to the point that Jesse knew without a doubt that Jesus Christ was following him and protecting him, never abandoned him, and kept leading him to God.

Ten percent of the population is homosexual. These people are not just numbers on a graph. They come into this world as infants, born to everyday mums and dads. They go to school, play, grow up just like everybody else. But when they get to young adulthood they are in a no-man's land. No help, no understanding and no acceptance. Here, is a book that gives hope to these lonely, perplexed kids - and their parents.