Deterministic and Statistical Methods in Machine Learning [electronic resource] : First International Workshop, Sheffield, UK, September 7-10, 2004. Revised Lectures / edited by Joab Winkler, Mahesan Niranjan, Neil Lawrence.

Object Recognition via Local Patch Labelling -- Multi Channel Sequence Processing -- Bayesian Kernel Learning Methods for Parametric Accelerated Life Survival Analysis -- Extensions of the Informative Vector Machine -- Efficient Communication by Breathing -- Guiding Local Regression Using Visualisation -- Transformations of Gaussian Process Priors -- Kernel Based Learning Methods: Regularization Networks and RBF Networks -- Redundant Bit Vectors for Quickly Searching High-Dimensional Regions -- Bayesian Independent Component Analysis with Prior Constraints: An Application in Biosignal Analysis -- Ensemble Algorithms for Feature Selection -- Can Gaussian Process Regression Be Made Robust Against Model Mismatch? -- Understanding Gaussian Process Regression Using the Equivalent Kernel -- Integrating Binding Site Predictions Using Non-linear Classification Methods -- Support Vector Machine to Synthesise Kernels -- Appropriate Kernel Functions for Support Vector Machine Learning with Sequences of Symbolic Data -- Variational Bayes Estimation of Mixing Coefficients -- A Comparison of Condition Numbers for the Full Rank Least Squares Problem -- SVM Based Learning System for Information Extraction.