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...

Identifying structural patterns in conceptual models serves a variety of purposes ranging from model comparison to model integration and exploration. Although there are a multitude of different approaches for particular modelling languages and application scenarios, the modelling community lacks an integrated approach suitable for conceptual models of arbitrary languages and domains. Therefore,...

The person’s way of thinking has a limit. There is a possibility that the better design pattern exists outside of their own ideas. In recent years, complicated structural analysis became possible by performance improvement of computer. The free structure forms which are not constrained by columns and girders became possible. The purpose of this study is the construction of the idea support syst...

The NLToolset is a framework of tools, techniques, and resources designed for building text processing applications. It is a pattern based system which uses world knowledge resident in a lexicon, a location gazetteer, and lists of universal terms, such as first names and the Fortune 500 companies. This knowledge base is extensible with generic, as well as domain-specific, information. It applie...

Considering admissible heuristics for cost-optimal planning, we present a generalization of patterndatabase homomorphism abstractions, called “structural patterns”. The basic idea of structural patterns boils down to projecting the problem in hand to provably tractable fragments of optimal planning. The key motivation behind this generalization of PDBs is to alleviate the requirement for the pr...

This study aims to delve into the unobservable dimensions of deciding and acting in a pragmatically significant speech event. Utilizing a Discourse Completion Test questionnaire, it seeks to find out the structure and pragmatic functions that lie behind EFL learners’ choice of specific wording while engaged in performing a recurrent speech act in Iran i.e. compliments. To this aim, 30 EFL learn...

The patterns in collections of real world objects are often not based on a limited set of isolated properties such as features. Instead, the totality of their appearance constitutes the basis of the human recognition of patterns. Structural pattern recognition aims to find explicit procedures that mimic the learning and classification made by human experts in well-defined and restricted areas o...

The analysis of spatial relations among objects in an image is a important vision problem that involves both shape analysis and structural pattern recognition. In this paper, we propose a new approach to characterize the spatial relation along, an important feature of spatial configuration in space that has been overlooked in the literature up to now. We propose a mathematical definition of the...