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This article discusses some intelligence aspects of Chinese characters. Some basic concepts of two-dimensional pattern representation and artificial intelligence such as semantic networks, forward chaining, deduction and the resolution principle are used to analyze and interpret the syntactic structure, representation, semantics and evolution of Chinese characters. The concept of degrees of ambiguity and the principle of new characters are investigated. It is found that Chinese characters are actually not only artistically elegant and culturally rich but also semantically meaningful and intelligently sound. Finally some topics for future research such as intelligent pattern recognition for Chinese characters, automatic learning and translation, and knowledge-based Chinese language understanding are discussed.

The subject of this paper is the description of a process-centered software development environment called MERLIN which monitors and guides teams of software developers and managers in producing software objects. Software objects (or objects for short) include all sorts of documents like requirements analysis, design, code, user manuals, contracts etc. For each user, MERLIN automatically displays a specific working context which contains information like objects, their relations, their current development state, and corresponding tools. This information is filtered according to the (access) rights and duties a particular user has in a particular project, i.e. the working context depends on the user's role (e.g. programmer, designer, manager). Internally, the computation of the information to be contained in a working context, is based on a rulelike definition of a software process and a flexible interpretation mechanism to enact such a process definition. The main feature of the interpreter is an alternating use of backward and forward chaining for the interpretation of rules. In addition, our implementation enables a persistent storage and incremental update during runtime of all process information expressed in facts within the MERLIN knowledge base.

The rhythm of a scanned ECG paper can be interpreted by extracting the first derivative of the signal. This paper discusses a first derivative method to classify five different rhythms, namely: Normal Sinus Rhythm, Sinus Bradycardia, 1st Degree AV Block, Atrial Flutter and the Asystole. The PQRST Wave complex is mapped and the different intervals are identified. Unlike other methods where learning is needed and quite a number of data are required, the method described here used rule-based method. It is capable of interpreting data with minimal samples. Based on the studied data, the method was able to produce a 95% accuracy for samples with grids that do not perfectly lie in time axis.

This article discusses some intelligence aspects of Chinese characters. Some basic concepts of two-dimensional pattern representation and artificial intelligence such as semantic networks, forward chaining, deduction and the resolution principle are used to analyze and interpret the syntactic structure, representation, semantics and evolution of Chinese characters. The concept of degrees of ambiguity and the principle of new characters are investigated. It is found that Chinese characters are actually not only artistically elegant and culturally rich but also semantically meaningful and intelligently sound. Finally some topics for future research such as intelligent pattern recognition for Chinese characters, automatic learning and translation, and knowledge-based Chinese language understanding are discussed.