Pattern recognition is an active area of research with many applications, some of which have reached commercial maturity. Structural and syntactic methods are very powerful. They are based on symbolic data structures together with matching, parsing, and reasoning procedures that are able to infer interpretations of complex input patterns.This book gives an overview of the latest developments and achievements in the field.Contents:Recent Advances in String Matching (H Bunke)A New Efficient Method to Represent and Process Proximity and Similarity in Sets of Complex Objects (H Noltemeier)A Quick Way for Relational Matching: Morphology (R M Haralick et al.)Understanding Neural Networks for Grammatical Inference and Recognition (A Sanfeliu & R Alquezar)Some Recent Results on Stochastic Language Modelling (A Corazza et al.)Background Structure in Document Images (H S Baird)Automatic Object Modelization in Computer Vision (P Gros & R Mohr)Object Recognition by a Robust Matching Technique (R Salzbrunn et al.)PDL-HM: Morphological and Syntactic Shape Classification Algorithm. Real-Time Application to Fish Species Classification (H Arnarson & L F Pau et al.)Selection of Landmarks Based Upon 3D and Iconic Properties (S Tsuji & S Tsuji)and other papersReadership: Computer scientists.Key Features:Contains an explicit, non-perturbative QED argument suggesting that charge renormalization is finiteContains an explicit, new, gauge-invariant formulation of Q, including an analytic derivation of quark binding potentials, and the first analytic extraction of Nuclear Physics from fundamental Q: a deuteron-like potential which can bind two nucleonsContains a set of QFT Conjectures and their Astrophysical Consequences