From the contents: Support Vector Machines – An Introduction -- Multiple Model Estimation for Nonlinear Classification -- Componentwise Least Squares Support Vector Machines -- Active Support Vector Learning with Statistical Queries -- Local Learning vs. Global Learning: An Introduction to Maxi-Min Margin Machine -- Active-Set Methods for Support Vector Machines -- Theoretical and Practical Model Selection Methods for Support Vector Classifiers -- Adaptive Discriminant and Quasiconformal Kernel Nearest Neighbor Classification -- Improving the Performance of the Support Vector Machine: Two Geometrical Scaling Methods -- An Accelerated Robust Support Vector Machine Algorithm -- Fuzzy Support Vector Machines with Automatic Membership Setting -- Iterative Single Data Algorithm for Training Kernel Machines from Huge Data Sets: Theory and Performance -- Kernel Discriminant Learning with Application to Face Recognition -- Fast Color Texture-based Object Detection in Images: Application to License Plate Localization.