Pattern

A Pattern is an Entity that can be used by an Agent to Detect or Create an Artifact.

• AKA: Template, Type.
• Context:
  • It can have a Pattern Type, e.g. Person Face, String Pattern.
  • It can have a Pattern Description, e.g. a Training Dataset.
  • It can be expressed in some Formal Language, such as UML or a Structured Vocabulary.
  • It can be a Simple Pattern (such as a Search String Pattern) or a Complex Pattern (such as a [{Data Model Pattern]]).
  • It can be:
    • a Temporal Pattern.
    • a Spatial Pattern.
• Example(s):
  • any Itemset Pattern.
  • any Fact Model Pattern.
  • any Data Model Pattern / Data Structure Type.
  • any Search String Pattern.
  • any Image Pattern, such as a model of a Person Face.
  • any city planning pattern.
• See: Rule, Pattern Matching, Pattern Recognition, Detection Task.

References

2009

• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pattern
  • that from which a copy is made; design, motif or decoration formed from multiple copies of an original fitted together; arrangement of objects ...
• WordNet
  • form: a perceptual structure; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects ...
  • practice: a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
  • design: a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors"
  • convention: something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
  • a model considered worthy of imitation; "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"
  • blueprint: something intended as a guide for making something else; "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt"
  • model: plan or create according to a model or models
  • traffic pattern: the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport; "the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded"; "they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted"
  • form a pattern; "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"