The Agents Directory

Author : Rachel Vater
Publisher : Emmis Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1578601444

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The Agents Directory by Rachel Vater Pdf

Finding the right agent can be a bewildering, frustrating and byzantine process for beginners and experienced writers alike. How do you tell a good agent from a bad agent? What's the best way to approach an agent? What exactly does an agent do? In The Agents Directory, editor-turned-agent Rachel Vater answers these questions and more. Unlike guides that have readers sifting through page after page of listings of agencies that aren't accepting new writers, won't read manuscripts, or will charge money up-front, The Agents Directory offers an exclusive guide to the best literary and script agents looking for new clients. Each listing provides detailed, up-to-date information about the type of work each agent accepts, clients he or she represents, recent sales, contact information, and the best way to submit work. Detailed instructions for writing a query letter, complete with sample queries, help readers make a great impression on an agent. A bonus directory to writing conferences across the US and Canada provides networking opportunities with other writers, agents, and editors. The Agents Directory also includes an extensive list of writer’s organizations — invaluable resources to support a commitment to writing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018932056

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The Auctioneers', Land Agents', Valuers', & Estate Agents' Directory ... Also, Drainage Engineers ... By H. Allnutt. 1860, 1862 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Poets & Writers Inc
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary agents
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Poets & Writers Guide to Literary Agents by Anonim Pdf

A collection of articles edited by the staff of Poets & Writers Magazine, this handy resource includes straightforward advice from professionals in the literary field and additional resources with insider tips. This practical guide will give you everything you need to understand what agents do, what you can expect from them, and how to find the best agent for you and your work: -Where agents search for new talent -Tips on how to secure an agent -What agents look for in the first few pages of a submission -How to follow up with an agent after you’ve submitted your work -The agent’s role in today’s publishing industry -How to know when the time has come to dissolve a relationship with an agent

Author : Vladimir Marik,Duncan McFarlane,Paul Valckenaers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540407515

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Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing by Vladimir Marik,Duncan McFarlane,Paul Valckenaers Pdf

The increasing complexity of manufacturing systems as well as the overall demands for flexible and fault-tolerant control of production processes stimulates (among many others) two key emerging technologies that are already making an important breakthrough in the field of intelligent manufacturing, control, and diagnostics. These two paradigms are: • the holonic approach based on the event-driven control strategy, usually aimed at modular control systems that are directly physically linked with the manufacturing hardware equipment, and • the multi-agent approach developed in the area of distributed information processing. The research communities working in both these fields are approaching the problem of intelligent manufacturing from different viewpoints and, until recently, to a certain extent, in an independent way. We can however observe quite a clear convergence of these fields in the last few years: the communities have started to cooperate, joining efforts to solve the painful problems involved in achieving effective industrial practice. We can see convergence in the terminology, standards and methods being applied.

Author : Magdi S. Mahmoud
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000078022

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Multiagent Systems by Magdi S. Mahmoud Pdf

Multiagent systems (MAS) are one of the most exciting and the fastest growing domains in the intelligent resource management and agent-oriented technology, which deals with modeling of autonomous decisions making entities. Recent developments have produced very encouraging results in the novel approach of handling multiplayer interactive systems. In particular, the multiagent system approach is adapted to model, control, manage or test the operations and management of several system applications including multi-vehicles, microgrids, multi-robots, where agents represent individual entities in the network. Each participant is modeled as an autonomous participant with independent strategies and responses to outcomes. They are able to operate autonomously and interact pro-actively with their environment. In recent works, the problem of information consensus is addressed, where a team of vehicles communicate with each other to agree on key pieces of information that enable them to work together in a coordinated fashion. The problem is challenging because communication channels have limited range and there are possibilities of fading and dropout. The book comprises chapters on synchronization and consensus in multiagent systems. It shows that the joint presentation of synchronization and consensus enables readers to learn about similarities and differences of both concepts. It reviews the cooperative control of multi-agent dynamical systems interconnected by a communication network topology. Using the terminology of cooperative control, each system is endowed with its own state variable and dynamics. A fundamental problem in multi-agent dynamical systems on networks is the design of distributed protocols that guarantee consensus or synchronization in the sense that the states of all the systems reach the same value. It is evident from the results that research in multiagent systems offer opportunities for further developments in theoretical, simulation and implementations. This book attempts to fill this gap and aims at presenting a comprehensive volume that documents theoretical aspects and practical applications.

Author : Zhongzhi Shi,Eunika Mercier-Laurent,Jiuyong Li
Publisher : Springer
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030008284

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Intelligent Information Processing IX by Zhongzhi Shi,Eunika Mercier-Laurent,Jiuyong Li Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing, IIP 2018, held in Nanning, China, in October 2018. The 37 full papers and 8 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on machine learning, deep learning, multi-agent systems, neural computing and swarm intelligence, natural language processing, recommendation systems, social computing, business intelligence and security, pattern recognition, and image understanding.

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1565 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781472968159

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Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing Pdf

The latest edition of the bestselling guide to all you need to know about how to get published, is packed full of advice, inspiration and practical information. The Writers' & Artists' Yearbook has been guiding writers and illustrators on the best way to present their work, how to navigate the world of publishing and ways to improve their chances of success, for over 110 years. It is equally relevant for writers of novels and non-fiction, poems and scripts and for those writing for children, YA and adults and covers works in print, digital and audio formats. If you want to find a literary or illustration agent or publisher, would like to self-publish or crowdfund your creative idea then this Yearbook will help you. As well as sections on publishers and agents, newspapers and magazines, illustration and photography, theatre and screen, there is a wealth of detail on the legal and financial aspects of being a writer or illustrator.

Author : Megan Roddie,Jason Deyalsingh,Gary J. Katz
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781801073646

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Practical Threat Detection Engineering by Megan Roddie,Jason Deyalsingh,Gary J. Katz Pdf

Go on a journey through the threat detection engineering lifecycle while enriching your skill set and protecting your organization Key Features Gain a comprehensive understanding of threat validation Leverage open-source tools to test security detections Harness open-source content to supplement detection and testing Book DescriptionThreat validation is an indispensable component of every security detection program, ensuring a healthy detection pipeline. This comprehensive detection engineering guide will serve as an introduction for those who are new to detection validation, providing valuable guidelines to swiftly bring you up to speed. The book will show you how to apply the supplied frameworks to assess, test, and validate your detection program. It covers the entire life cycle of a detection, from creation to validation, with the help of real-world examples. Featuring hands-on tutorials and projects, this guide will enable you to confidently validate the detections in your security program. This book serves as your guide to building a career in detection engineering, highlighting the essential skills and knowledge vital for detection engineers in today's landscape. By the end of this book, you’ll have developed the skills necessary to test your security detection program and strengthen your organization’s security measures.What you will learn Understand the detection engineering process Build a detection engineering test lab Learn how to maintain detections as code Understand how threat intelligence can be used to drive detection development Prove the effectiveness of detection capabilities to business leadership Learn how to limit attackers’ ability to inflict damage by detecting any malicious activity early Who this book is for This book is for security analysts and engineers seeking to improve their organization’s security posture by mastering the detection engineering lifecycle. To get started with this book, you’ll need a basic understanding of cybersecurity concepts, along with some experience with detection and alert capabilities.

Author : Leszek Rutkowski,Marcin Korytkowski,Rafał Scherer,Ryszard Tadeusiewicz,Lotfi Zadeh,Jacek Zurada
Publisher : Springer
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642293504

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Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing by Leszek Rutkowski,Marcin Korytkowski,Rafał Scherer,Ryszard Tadeusiewicz,Lotfi Zadeh,Jacek Zurada Pdf

The two-volume set LNAI 7267 and 7268 (together with LNCS 7269 ) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2012, held in Zakopane, Poland in April/ May 2012. The 212 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 483 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on neural networks and their applications, computer vision, image and speech analysis, data mining, hardware implementation, bioinformatics, biometrics and medical applications, concurrent parallel processing, agent systems, robotics and control, artificial intelligence in modeling and simulation, various problems od artificial intelligence.

Author : Kelly's directories, ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590557625

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Kelly's directory of Bedfordshire, Hunts, and Northamptonshire by Kelly's directories, ltd Pdf

Author : Gerald Carter
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596551919

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LDAP System Administration by Gerald Carter Pdf

Be more productive and make your life easier. That's what LDAP System Administration is all about.System administrators often spend a great deal of time managing configuration information located on many different machines: usernames, passwords, printer configurations, email client configurations, and network filesystem configurations, to name a few. LDAPv3 provides tools for centralizing all of the configuration information and placing it under your control. Rather than maintaining several administrative databases (NIS, Active Directory, Samba, and NFS configuration files), you can make changes in only one place and have all your systems immediately "see" the updated information.Practically platform independent, this book uses the widely available, open source OpenLDAP 2 directory server as a premise for examples, showing you how to use it to help you manage your configuration information effectively and securely. OpenLDAP 2 ships with most Linux® distributions and Mac OS® X, and can be easily downloaded for most Unix-based systems. After introducing the workings of a directory service and the LDAP protocol, all aspects of building and installing OpenLDAP, plus key ancillary packages like SASL and OpenSSL, this book discusses: Configuration and access control Distributed directories; replication and referral Using OpenLDAP to replace NIS Using OpenLDAP to manage email configurations Using LDAP for abstraction with FTP and HTTP servers, Samba, and Radius Interoperating with different LDAP servers, including Active Directory Programming using Net::LDAP If you want to be a master of your domain, LDAP System Administration will help you get up and running quickly regardless of which LDAP version you use. After reading this book, even with no previous LDAP experience, you'll be able to integrate a directory server into essential network services such as mail, DNS, HTTP, and SMB/CIFS.

Author : Michal Pechoucek,Paolo Petta,Laszlo Zsolt Varga
Publisher : Springer
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540317319

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Multi-Agent Systems and Applications IV by Michal Pechoucek,Paolo Petta,Laszlo Zsolt Varga Pdf

The aim of the CEEMAS conference series is to provide a biennial forum for the presentation of multi-agent research and development results. With its p- ticular geographicalorientation towards Central and Eastern Europe, CEEMAS has become an internationally recognised event with participants from all over the world. After the successful CEEMAS conferences in St. Petersburg (1999), Cracow (2001) and Prague (2003), the 2005 CEEMAS conference takes place in Budapest. The programme committee of the conference series consists of est- lished researchers from the region and renowned international colleagues, sh- ing the prominent rank of CEEMAS among the leading events in multi-agent systems. In the very competitive ?eld of agent oriented conferences and workshops nowadays(suchasAAMAS,WI/IAT,EUMAS,CIA,MATES)thespecialpro?le of CEEMAS is that it is trying to bridge the gap between applied research achievements and theoretical research activities. Our ambition is to provide a forum for presenting theoretical research with an evident application potential, implemented application prototypes and their properties, as well as industrial case studies of successful (but also unsuccessful) agent technology deployments. This is why the CEEMAS proceedings volume provides a collection of research and application papers. The technical research paper section of the proceedings (see pages 11–499) contains pure research papers as well as research results in application settings while the application papers section (see pages 500–530) contains papers focused on application aspects. The goal is to demonstrate the real life value and commercial reality of multi-agent systems as well as to foster communication between academia and industry in this ?eld.

Author : Rainer Unland,Matthias Klusch,Monique Calisti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783764373481

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Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits by Rainer Unland,Matthias Klusch,Monique Calisti Pdf

This book introduces major agent platforms, frameworks, systems, tools, and applications. Each system is described by their developers in sufficient detail so that the reader can get a good understanding of the architecture, functionality, and application areas of the system. All systems are running systems. One main focus of the book lies on agent platforms and toolkits.

Author : Ernestina Menasalvas,Javier Segovia,Piotr S. Szczepaniak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540448310

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Advances in Web Intelligence by Ernestina Menasalvas,Javier Segovia,Piotr S. Szczepaniak Pdf

We are pleased to present the proceedings of the 2003 Atlantic Web Intelligence C- ference, AWIC 2003. The conference was located in Madrid, Spain during May 5–6, 2003, organized locally by the Technical University of Madrid. AWIC 2003 aimed to be the rst of a series of conferences on Web Intelligence, to be celebrated annually, alternatively in Europe and America, starting in Madrid. It was born as an activity of the recently created WIC-Poland Research Centre and the WIC-Spain Research Centre, bothbelongingtotheWebIntelligenceConsortium(WIC) (http://wi-consortium.org).AWIC 2003 was supported with grants from the S- nish Ministry for Science and Technology and the European Network of Excellence in Knowledge Discovery, KDNet. AWIC 2003 brought together scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory,applications,andtools)ofarti cialintelligencetechniquesappliedtoWeb-based systems, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. Almost 70 contributions were submitted. After a preliminary evaluation, 60 of these papers were accepted to the conference and were assigned at least two reviewers from the international program committee. Out of this 60, 33 were conditionally accepted, and 32 of them were nally accepted after the conditions set by the reviewers had been met, which resulted in an acceptance ratio of 45%.

Author : Mike Robertson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798823021333

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Looking For Memories by Mike Robertson Pdf

Like some people recently retired, Mark had taken on a diversion that pretty well takes up much of his time. At one time, he collected baseball cards, a pastime that required him to acquire cards through trades with fellow enthusiasts or winning cards through arcane competitions when the application of Facebook allowed him to accumulate cards more easily. Several years later, on an airplane flight from Montreal to New York City, Mark glimpses a television show being shown on a computer laptop belonging to a woman sitting in a seat across the aisle of that flight. Mark thinks and then becomes convinced that one of the actresses playing a woman in that show is in fact his first girlfriend. That realization results in a search for the identity of that woman though a variety of methods and sources, an effort that culminates in a rendezvous with his memory.