title: Pattern recognition as conceptual morphogenesis.
abstract: Pattern recognition is our mental activity in which we formulate, select, modify, and adjust our concepts or our frames of reference so that we can see a ``form'' in objects. We can tentatively formulate this viewpoint as the principle of minimum entropy (or entropy-like function). Different algorithms in clustering and pattern recognition are given new interpretations in the light of this unifying principle.
authors.affiliation: University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; Apartment 100 Homat Prince, 2-10-25 Moto-Azabus, Minatoku, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Watanabe