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Winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from
the Texas Institute of Letters * A San Francisco Chronicle
Recommended Book of 2015 * Fiction Finalist for the 2015 Writers'
League of Texas Book Awards * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2015 *
One of the Texas Observer's "Five Books We Loved in 2015" * One of
PRI's "The World's Five Books You Should Read in 2016" "Profound
and wrenching...A deeply moving chronicle of one family's
collective devastation, full of remarkable wisdom and humor" (The
New York Times Book Review) that follows the members of a wealthy
Mexican family after their patriarch is kidnapped. On an
unremarkable night, Jose Victoriano Arteaga--the head of a thriving
Mexico City family--vanishes on his way home from work. The
Arteagas find few answers; the full truth of what happened to
Arteaga is lost to the shadows of Mexico's vast underworld. But
soon packages arrive to the family house, offering horrifying
clues. Fear, guilt, and the prospect of financial ruin fracture the
once-proud family and scatter them across the globe, yet delicate
threads still hold them together: in a swimming pool in Palo Alto,
Arteaga's grandson struggles to make sense of the grief that has
hobbled his family; in Mexico City, Arteaga's mistress alternates
between rage and heartbreak as she waits, in growing panic, for her
lover's return; in Austin, the Arteagas' housekeeper tries to piece
together a second life in an alienating new land; in Madrid,
Arteaga's son takes his dog through the hot and unforgiving
streets, in search of his father's ghost. A stunningly original
exploration of the wages of a hidden war, Barefoot Dogs is a
heartfelt elegy to the stolen innocence of every family struck by
tragedy. Urgent and vital fiction, "these powerful stories are
worthy of rereading in order to fully digest the far-reaching
implications of one man's disappearance...this singular book
affords the reader the chance to step inside a world of privilege
and loss, and understand how the two are inextricably intertwined"
(San Francisco Chronicle).
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Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2005 - 9th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Porto, Portugal, October 3-7, 2005, Proceedings (Paperback, 2005 ed.)
Alipio Jorge, Luis Torgo, Pavel Brazdil, Rui Camacho, Joao Gama
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R3,343
Discovery Miles 33 430
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the European
Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in
Databases (PKDD) were jointly organized this year for the ?fth time
in a row, after some years of mutual independence before. After
Freiburg (2001), Helsinki (2002), Cavtat (2003) and Pisa (2004),
Porto received the 16th edition of ECML and the 9th PKDD in October
3-7. Having the two conferences together seems to be working well:
585 di?erent paper submissions were received for both events, which
maintains the high s- mission standard of last year. Of these, 335
were submitted to ECML only, 220 to PKDD only and 30 to both. Such
a high volume of scienti?c work required a tremendous e?ort from
Area Chairs, Program Committee members and some additional
reviewers. On average, PC members had 10 papers to evaluate, and
Area Chairs had 25 papers to decide upon. We managed to have 3
highly qua-
?edindependentreviewsperpaper(withveryfewexceptions)andoneadditional
overall input from one of the Area Chairs. After the authors'
responses and the online discussions for many of the papers, we
arrived at the ?nal selection of 40 regular papers for ECML and 35
for PKDD. Besides these, 32 others were accepted as short papers
for ECML and 35 for PKDD. This represents a joint acceptance rate
of around 13% for regular papers and 25% overall. We thank all
involved for all the e?ort with reviewing and selection of papers.
Besidesthecoretechnicalprogram, ECMLandPKDDhad6invitedspeakers, 10
workshops, 8 tutorials and a Knowledge Discovery Challenge.
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Machine Learning: ECML 2005 - 16th European Conference on Machine Learning, Porto, Portugal, October 3-7, 2005, Proceedings (Paperback, 2005 ed.)
Joao Gama, Rui Camacho, Pavel Brazdil, Alipio Jorge, Luis Torgo
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R3,112
Discovery Miles 31 120
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the European
Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in
Databases (PKDD) were jointly organized this year for the ?fth time
in a row, after some years of mutual independence before. After
Freiburg (2001), Helsinki (2002), Cavtat (2003) and Pisa (2004),
Porto received the 16th edition of ECML and the 9th PKDD in October
3-7. Having the two conferences together seems to be working well:
585 di?erent paper submissions were received for both events, which
maintains the high s- mission standard of last year. Of these, 335
were submitted to ECML only, 220 to PKDD only and 30 to both. Such
a high volume of scienti?c work required a tremendous e?ort from
Area Chairs, Program Committee members and some additional
reviewers. On average, PC members had 10 papers to evaluate, and
Area Chairs had 25 papers to decide upon. We managed to have 3
highly qua-
?edindependentreviewsperpaper(withveryfewexceptions)andoneadditional
overall input from one of the Area Chairs. After the authors'
responses and the online discussions for many of the papers, we
arrived at the ?nal selection of 40 regular papers for ECML and 35
for PKDD. Besides these, 32 others were accepted as short papers
for ECML and 35 for PKDD. This represents a joint acceptance rate
of around 13% for regular papers and 25% overall. We thank all
involved for all the e?ort with reviewing and selection of papers.
Besidesthecoretechnicalprogram, ECMLandPKDDhad6invitedspeakers, 10
workshops, 8 tutorials and a Knowledge Discovery Challenge.
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Inductive Logic Programming - 14th International Conference, ILP 2004, Porto, Portugal, September 6-8, 2004, Proceedings (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
Rui Camacho, Ross King, Ashwin Srinivasan
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R1,707
Discovery Miles 17 070
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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"How often we recall, with regret", wrote Mark Twain about editors,
"that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and
killed a publisher. But we remember with charity, that his
intentions were good. " Fortunately, we live in more forgiving
times, and are openly able to express our pleasure at being the
editors of this volume containing the papers selected for
presentation at the 14th International Conference on Inductive
Logic Programming. ILP 2004 was held in Porto from the 6th to the
8th of September, under the auspices of the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computing of the Faculty of Engineering
of the University of Porto (FEUP), and the Laborat' orio de Intelig
encia Arti?cial e Ci encias da Computa, c" ao (LIACC). This annual
me- ing of ILP practitioners and curious outsiders is intended to
act as the premier forum for presenting the most recent and
exciting work in the ?eld. Six invited talks-three from ?elds
outside ILP, but nevertheless highly relevant to it- and 20 full
presentations formed the nucleus of the conference. It is the
full-length
papersofthese20presentationsthatcomprisethebulkofthisvolume.
Asisnow common with the ILP conference, presentations made to a
"Work-in-Progress" track will, hopefully, be available elsewhere.
We gratefully acknowledge the continued support of Kluwer Academic
P- lishers for the "Best Student Paper" award on behalf of the
Machine Lea- ing journal; and Springer-Verlag for continuing to
publish the proceedings of these conferences.
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High Performance Computing for Computational Science - VECPAR 2016 - 12th International Conference, Porto, Portugal, June 28-30, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Ines De Castro Dutra, Rui Camacho, Jorge G. Barbosa, Osni Marques
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R2,393
Discovery Miles 23 930
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the 12fth International Conference on High
Performance Computing in Computational Science, VECPAR 2016, held
in Porto, Portugal, in June 2016. The 20 full papers presented were
carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers are
organized in topical sections on applications; performance modeling
and analysis; low level support; environments/libraries to support
parallelization.
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