Based on the theoretical model of complex travel behavior developed in a companion paper (Reeker ef al., 1986), an operational system of models, STARCHILD (Simulation of Travel/Activity Responses to Complex Household Interactive Logistic Decisions), has been developed to examine the formation of household travel/activity patterns. The system employs a simulation approach in combination with tec...

Innate immune receptors respond to common structural patterns in microbial molecules and are called pattern recognition receptors. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play critical roles in the innate immune system by recognizing microbial lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids, and proteins. Precise definition of the ligand "pattern" of TLRs has been difficult to determine primarily owing to a lack of hi...

This paper discusses procedures for nonlinearity detection, localisation and identification in structures from time domain vibration measurements. The detection and the localisation techniques use pattern recognition tools and are based on a dissimilarity measure between the signals coming from a linear structure and the corresponding nonlinear one. The detection procedure distinguishes between...

Recent advances in computer technology have motivated the automation of various functions of the inspection task, an important process in quality control. However, since purely automated inspection has limitations, hybrid systems, ones taking advantage of the superiority of humans in pattern recognition, rational decision-making, and adaptability to new circumstances, are preferable. To achieve...

Radiation damage and rate limitations impose severe constraints on wire chambers at the SSC. Possible conceptua1 designs for wire chamber tracking systems that satisfy these constraints are discussed. Computer simulation studies of tracking in such systems are presented. Simulations of events from interesting physics at the SSC, including hits from minimum bias background events, are examined. ...

The silicon pixel detector is the innermost component of the CMS tracking system. It provides precise measurements of space points to allow effective pattern recognition in multiple track environments near the LHC interaction point. The end disks of the pixel detector, known as the Forward Pixel detector, are constructed mainly by the US-CMS collaborators. The design techniques, readout electro...

A pattern recognition strategy for the HERA-B main tracking system is presented. A concurrent track evolution algorithm has been developed to select the optimal track candidate compatible with a seed. Intrinsically a local method, it combines the virtues of track following procedures with the necessary ability to optimize between many available paths in a high occupancy environment. The problem...

Commercial myoelectric prosthetic systems are based on relatively simple signal acquisition and processing. Academic research has indeed been developing powerful algorithms with promising results (e.g., pattern recognition methods and linear or non-linear transformations [1-4]), but there are still no commercial systems available using these approaches because they are not robust enough for cli...

We describe an object oriented set of tools for carrying out integrated hierarchical pattern recognition in a tracking system composed of an arbitrary set of tracking devices. Two fundamental components are part of the method, a LayerSet object for pattern recognition operations and a TrackFilter object for manipulation of track candidates. The other major components in the package are: a manag...

Equal matrix grammars are one of paralel rewriting systems. This type of parallel rewriting systems has been investigated in several areas such as L-systems and the syntactic pattern recognition. In this paper, we introduce two types of structural information and show that if these are available and there is a method of learning regular sets in polynomial time, then for any positive integer $k$...