Regularities in the world are human defined. Patterns in the observed phenomena are there because we define and recognize them as such. Automatic pattern recognition tries to bridg...
s from a concrete to a new abstract level of description [1]. Rises in abstraction level happen regularly in all fields, but the key difference in Alexander's work was that ra...
Information integration is often faced with the problem that different data sources represent the same set of the real-world objects, but give conflicting values for specific prop...
Many man-made and natural structures consist of similar elements arranged in regular patterns. In this paper we present an unsupervised approach for discovering and reasoning on re...
We present a computational framework to automatically discover high-order temporal social patterns from very noisy and sparse location data. We introduce the concept of social foo...