PATTERN RECOGNITION
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2497 ▶ |
| Object type | Epistemology, ontology or semantics, Methodology or model |
The way a system retraces structures and processes regularities, becomes able to register them and to use this information later on.
Pattern recognition is a very important systemic function. It seems to have two different aspects.
First, a pattern must be discovered and identified. This implies the recognition of various coherent steps in a process, or of the coherence of various elements in a gestalt. Once the pattern has been identified, the corresponding information must be kept.
Once recorded, the pattern can be “re-cognized” when the same process or gestalt reappears.
Different forms of pattern recognition processes are present in immunology, cerebral activity (see for ex. STEINBUCH matrixes), artificial intelligence and social activity (for ex. in all types of languages, in stigmergy).