Contributing Author’s Letter of Agreement

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For the purposes of publication of the above article in the book tentatively entitled

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11,

I do warrant that I am the sole author except for those portions shown to be quotations;

I authorize The MIT Press to publish the article and to claim copyright in the book in which it is published for all editions, to license translations of the article as part of translations of the book as a whole, and also to license nonexclusively reprints of the article;

I appoint the editor as my agent in everything pertaining to the publication of the article in this book;

I agree to read proof if requested to do so and otherwise to cooperate to the end of publication;

and I affirm that the article does not violate copyright or other proprietary right, that it contains no material that is libelous or in any way unlawful, that it has not previously been published, in whole or in part, except as I have advised the editor in writing, and that I will not now publish the article in any other edited volume without the consent of The MIT Press.

With this last exception, I retain the right to use the material in the article in any other writing of my own, whether in article or book form.

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