“Patterns” can have many forms:
- Dress patterns;
- Software design patterns;
- Tool & die patterns;
- Other patterns;
- These patterns are increasingly used in many fields.
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“Informal” Patterns: Sometimes described as “A re-usable solution to a type of problem in a context”
Systematica Methodology defines Patterns as configurable, re-usable Models (and Models as the minimum information necessary to explicitly describe the requirements and design of a system).