Design patterns in intelligent systems

This article introduces design patterns useful in intelligent systems engineering. The basic approach in this research has been influenced by recent work on design patterns in systems engineering, pattern recognition for humans and machines and on the identification of components of an approximation space approach to understanding and crafting intelligent systems. In general, an IS pattern is seen an entity that is vaguely defined relative to structural and functional features of a component of an intelligent system. A complete IS pattern map is given in this paper. The application of IS patterns is illustrated in the reverse engineering of a life form that has pattern recognition capabilities (e.g., identifying the location of cached food by Nucifraga columbiana (Clark's nutcracker)). The contribution of this paper is to introduce an approach to forward engineering robotic devices that embody IS patterns and to reverse engineering existing robotic or living systems using IS patterns either singularly or in networks as classifiers where a feature set embodied in an IS pattern matches to a degree features of a subsystem of an existing system.