In order to tap into this unrealised potential, the IBM team came up with software that works by using geometrical patterns to represent words.
Unilever, for instance, is using agent-based modeling software to analyze the purchasing and social patterns of 150, 000 customers who use Swiss online grocer LeShop.ch.
Their software and hardware architecture may take advantage of patterns like redundant services, failover services, or retry attempts after failures.
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Loopt, which is rumoured to be a potential takeover target of Facebook, has added software that automatically monitors its service for suspicious patterns of behaviour.
But InfoGlide, an Austin, Tex. software firm, looked behind the data to find more suspicious patterns.
But InfoGlide, an Austin, Texas, software firm, looked behind the data to find more suspicious patterns.
The KDDI system, is able to detect more complex behaviour by using analytical software - held on a server back at base - to match patterns of common movements.
Software monitored the stream and produced yellow and red alerts when it detected patterns that raised concerns.
Curiosity's "visual odometry" software measures terrain features -- such as rocks, rock shadows and patterns in the rover tracks -- to determine the precise distance between drive steps.
Dr Rugg and his team are now writing software to create dozens of tables and grilles in an attempt to reproduce other linguistic patterns in the manuscript.
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Using software similar to fingerprint-matching technology, the snaps of the shark's spot patterns are compared to see if it has previously been photographed or is a new find.
Analytics and marketing applications-oriented software companies are today providing new solutions that enable marketers to target communications based on behavioral patterns revealed in data from social networks, customer loyalty programs, call centers or transaction histories.
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When coupled with analytics software, an enterprise is in a better position to reallocate resources based on energy cost and usage patterns.
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MarketHistory's analysts use patented software to mine historical data back to the turn of the century and come up with likely future patterns.
The software can, for example, assign a customised scoring algorithm to each credit card, depending on its normal usage patterns.
The promise: cutting-edge strategies for software for a coming world of multiple supercomputers, where continually swapped programs and big databases will find and exploit unseen patterns in nature and society.
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