All the cost facts you need to design, bid or build any project "in metric" in the year ahead! Means Metric "BCCD" for 1997 is an all-inclusive estimating resource you'll use to: -- Prepare unit cost estimates -- Budget projects -- "Plug holes" in estimates -- Compare costs -- Evaluate bids -- Verify change orders -- Compare supplier discounts -- Invoice blanket contracts -- Negotiate Delivery Order Contracts -- Check subcontractor quotes -- "Quick check" prices -- And more!

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models, PGM 2014, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in September 2014. The 38 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers cover all aspects of graphical models for probabilistic reasoning, decision making, and learning.