The information era has witnessed an explosion in the collection of data that contain potentially useful information for a wide range of applications such as biology, sociology, pattern recognition, marketing and finance. As a result of this inflation, statisticians have developed a new set of tools that combine fundamental statistical concepts with profoundly new ideas. This set of problems an...

I'll show in an initial section (1.) that the kind of analogy between life and information (argue for by authors such as [1], [2], [3] [4], [5], [6]) is like the design argument and that if the design argument is invalid, the argument to the effect that artificial mind may represents an expected advance in the life evolution in Universe is also unfounded and invalid. However, if we are prepared...

An introduction into the setup, definitions and use of PRTools is given. Readers are assumed to be familiar with Matlab and should have a basic understanding of field of statistical pattern recognition. The Netherlands-2

A model is proposed that relates opportunity recognition to pattern recognition—the process through which individuals perceive emergent patterns among seemingly unrelated stimuli or events. This model suggests that because of their unique knowledge structures (e.g., prototypes, exemplars), specific persons perceive patterns among emerging changes in technology, markets, demographics, etc. that ...

Online Chinese handwriting recognition has attracted much research attention recently due to its complexity, wide-spread applications and emerging market demands. This material serves as a guide for pattern recognition researchers who have limited or no background in this language. We provide a brief review of the nature of the problem and challenges of online Chinese handwritten character reco...