PATTERN COGNITION AND THE ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses pattern recognition and organization of information. Developments in pattern recognition over the past decade or so have been characterized more by the proliferation of effort involving various motivations and different approaches than by concrete realization of practical working systems. A great deal of stress has been laid on the necessity for integration of the various functions to be able to make effective use of the sensory, perceptive, behavioral and procedural capabilities necessary, and on adequate knowledge of the world. The advantages of a conceptual organization of information have been put forward as a good basis on which to build the requisite information, both innate and acquired through interaction with the environment. It has been argued that because processing tasks may require the identification of sub-tasks and accordingly demand complex organizational, structural and procedural capabilities for planning solution, it seems profitable to view a pattern recognition machine as an integrated artificial intelligence system.